{"id":33664,"date":"2025-08-02T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=33664"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:08:09","slug":"today-in-sudoku-a-new-ai-prompt-for-dr-sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/today-in-sudoku-a-new-ai-prompt-for-dr-sudoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sudoku: A New AI Prompt for Dr. Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A New AI Prompt for Dr. Sudoku (Today in Sudoku for 2025\/08\/02)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8pNepFf0Rk?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>The first few minutes of this video covers news updates including what August may be like in our series A Story of Self-setting Sudoku.<\/p>\n<p>The longer part includes discussion of, and a blind solve for, a <a href=https:\/\/sudokupad.app\/cqyp9qfsc3>Cryptic Sudoku<\/a> by Palfly Kampling that is a variation on Renban lines requiring one gap in the middle. 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