{"id":31362,"date":"2024-12-20T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=31362"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:33:21","slug":"five-to-twelve-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/five-to-twelve-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Five to Twelve Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, wanted to say our preparations for the Twelve Days of Sudoku continue with the first days laid out and the other story elements coming together. We&#8217;re getting more advanced reviews from some of the prolific readers (I mean trillions of words) that we showed this content to. We will keep adding them here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The honesty the author brings to the process is refreshing. We spend so much time on our successes, but it was Thomas&#8217;s failures, repeated failures, that seem to be the portals of discovery for these amazing grids. 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