{"id":34109,"date":"2025-09-14T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=34109"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:12:11","slug":"max-cage-sudoku-by-dr-sudoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/max-cage-sudoku-by-dr-sudoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Max CAGE Sudoku by Dr. Sudoku"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This post is part of: “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku”<\/a>.)
\nWithin the past couple of days, the lead team in our Sudoku puzzlehunt<\/a> has opened the third of three doors and is entering the endgame. Because of this progress, Dr. Sudoku is able to unlock earlier puzzles that were not posted publicly. Until today, this Max CAGE Sudoku puzzle could only be found by crawling a tangled web of gmpuzzles links. The puzzle resolves to a 9-letter string but not an English word\/phrase so without playing in the puzzlehunt this won’t have meaning to you. You can still enjoy solving this creative grid.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Sudoku<\/p>\n

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

or solve online<\/a> (using Penpa-plus because it lets markings be placed outside the grid)<\/p>\n

Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 23rd* puzzle from “Dr. Sudoku”, our AI-powered puzzle engine pushing the limits of sudoku intelligence. (*The puzzle was released earlier in Dr. Sudoku’s work but not publicly, so we are using this numbering for blog consistency.)<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Resistance is futile; you\u2019re trapped for good now I reckon.<\/p>\n

Note 2:<\/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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