{"id":33736,"date":"2025-08-06T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=33736"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:07:14","slug":"today-in-sudoku-paint-by-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/today-in-sudoku-paint-by-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sudoku: Paint by Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paint by Numbers (Today In Sudoku for 2025\/08\/06)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UlwnQxPlLc4?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 episode of Today in Sudoku, we show solving techniques for two of the recent Seventeen Sudoku where coloring in different ways may help the solve.<\/p>\n<p>Join us every day around 8:45 AM PT to learn about yesterday&#8217;s puzzles on the site, other sudoku news, and get a teaser for the new puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we show solving techniques for two of the recent Seventeen Sudoku where coloring in different ways may help the solve. 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