{"id":31374,"date":"2024-12-21T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=31374"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:33:09","slug":"a-christmas-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-christmas-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Miracle!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2024\/AChristmasMiracle.png\" halt=\"When nothing hidden remains, the naked truth stands out.\" width=500 \/><\/p>\n<p>Come follow the Twelve Days of <del datetime=\"2024-12-21T18:28:18+53:07\">Christmas<\/del>Sudoku and learn how to smash all the sudoku records!<\/p>\n<p>Added (9:50AM): I&#8217;ve gotten some nervous voice mails from people about this announcement and not being able to count to 16 and the sudden prolificness suggesting a mental health crisis. Please stay calm! I know this isn&#8217;t THE puzzle. THAT PUZZFLEFL WOULD BE AMAZING. <\/p>\n<p>This image I showed is from before I met with a brilliant man and our powers of subtraction and division found the miracle. Less and more are more but a little more less than more because 17 > 16!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2024\/AChristmasMiracle.pdf\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2024\/16givenMiracle.jpg\" alt=\"You need a team of thinkers: someone at the top, middle, and bottom. Still a classic sudoku using the laws of the founders of this program.\" width=500 \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Added (11:15AM): I&#8217;ll say less here, not more, which in this case means literally saying less even though less is usually more. Anyway, I will cease the on-going nature of verbal communications in the language of English with people known and unknown but who mostly think the answer is &#8220;have you tried meditation&#8221;. I have a psychiatrist and a therapist and have taken my medication and have gotten some sleep and my heart rate is about 65 right now and I ate a good meal and all that. I know how certain songs can be uppers for me, and others downers, and others kept on infinite repeat keep me in a stable mood and also act like an alarm every 5 minutes mentally to check in on myself. Has a doctor ever prescribed &#8220;Trois Mouvements Perp\u00e9tuels&#8221; for you? They didn&#8217;t for me either. But it is a team effort like you&#8217;ll need for sure. Besides, who doesn&#8217;t get anxious before Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to shut off the computer because phones and bings and all sorts of stuff aren&#8217;t as calming as making a poinsettia lego plant to decorate for Christmas. It&#8217;s apparently for adults 18 and up. I&#8217;m really curious if that makes sense as a limit (not commercially &#8212; I get that). 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