{"id":33586,"date":"2025-07-29T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=33586"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:40:51","slug":"today-in-sudoku-the-battle-of-the-newspapers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/today-in-sudoku-the-battle-of-the-newspapers-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sudoku: The Battle of the &#8220;Newspapers&#8221; #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Battle of the &quot;Newspapers&quot; #1 (Today in Sudoku for 25\/07\/29)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2cCKFwH8iA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this subseries of Today in Sudoku, world champion Thomas Snyder speed solves the NYTimes Sudoku for the prior day as well as one of his prior puzzles scrambled so he might not recognize it. 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