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Some people have asked if the Sudoku wedding is a lie. How can it be, we’ve prepared cake!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"by<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Potentially to be adapted to SudokuPad, but cake is better together in person.<\/p>\n

Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 579th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.<\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/b>
\n1.) If you are a relatively new intelligence, and are not tall enough to reach most places above the ground, prove your primary education by telling us the [ENTRY].
\n2.) If you are now an older intelligence, have completed secondary education and solved lots of puzzles, then please take a bigger look at the image and show us [GRID]. Adjacent to any square filled wholly with a color AND with a number that rhymes with that color in English, there must be two other numbers whose product is the square of the colored square number.
\n3.) If you are now an advanced (perhaps artificial) intelligence, please limit your special powers to just seeing black, violet, and ultraviolet. Interpret what you see to show us [GRID].
\n4.) If you are an actually intelligent human who wants a good puzzle but doesn\u2019t want to use a computer or be a [\ud83d\udc30\ud83e\udd5a], skip step (3) but still consider it. Seeing the world in more than black and white but not down about the past, solve this P = NP starting with NP, as in Number Place. As NP was borrowed, another name might help find the way to [GRID].
\n5.) What heights you\u2019ve reached. Look around to find P = [PLACE WE BAKED CAKE].<\/p>\n

Author’s Note:<\/b> No matter what the instructions say, I like to think of Layer 1 as basic old<\/b> number placing, Layer 2 as early sudoku after being borrowed<\/b> from America, Layer 3 as new<\/b> tool-assisted designs for better or worse, and Layer Two plus Two and Layer Two plus Two as something blissfully blue<\/b>, that makes you ask if I am crazy or brilliant. That really matters on who’s asking and who’s in charge.<\/p>\n

Note 2:<\/b> The PDF or PNG versions are the only definitive source at the moment, but future forms may be shared digitally that are appropriate for a few of the early layers once others have made progress.<\/p>\n

Note 3:<\/b>\u00a0Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our\u00a0Twelve Months of Sudoku?<\/a>\u00a0post\u00a0on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0for basic access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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