{"id":36574,"date":"2026-10-02T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=36574"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:19:49","slug":"coast-to-coast-sudoku-by-bill-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/coast-to-coast-sudoku-by-bill-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast to Coast Sudoku by Bill Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/gas\/\">Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS)<\/a> series.)<br \/>\n<em>In a Coast to Coast Sudoku, you must place indicated pairs of digits symmetrically. Zip from coast to coast of the grid to fill in the pairs and complete this puzzle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261002-CoastToCoastSudoku.png\" alt=\"Coast to Coast Sudoku by Bill Murphy\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261002-CoastToCoastSudoku.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/s\/261002Coas\">solve online<\/a> (using SudokuPad)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 164th puzzle from Bill Murphy, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (<a href=\"https:\/\/sudokutheory.com\/gas\/\">GAS<\/a>) team.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/sudoku-rules-and-info\/\">Sudoku<\/a> rules (insert a number from 1 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column, or bold region). Additionally, wherever two numbers are given outside the grid, they must appear in either order in the first and last three cells in that row in symmetric locations relative to the center. For example, if one of them appeared in column 2, the other must appear in column 8.<\/p>\n<p><b>GAS Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> Two party hats (\ud83c\udfa9\ud83e\udd73): <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">5:00<\/span>; One party hat (\ud83e\udd73): <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">10:00<\/span>. All other solvers earn a \ud83e\udd95: <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">Speedy Segisaurus<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">1:47<\/span>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/sudokupad-Bill_Murph-Coast_To_Coast-a569-d107.replay\">SudokuPad replay file<\/a> shared as a download for now (requires loading via settings menu with improvements expected before people should use this regularly).<\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261002-CoastToCoastSudoku-soln.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Follow this link for other less common variations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/sudoku-3+variation-2\/\">Sudoku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note 2:<\/b>\u00a0Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/1059513302847336469\/1380897111599616020\">Daily GAS discussion<\/a>\u00a0post\u00a0on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/RNNfEBEbQS\">this link<\/a>\u00a0for basic access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.) In a Coast to Coast Sudoku, you must place indicated pairs of digits symmetrically. Zip from coast to coast of the grid to fill in the pairs and complete this puzzle. 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