{"id":36596,"date":"2026-10-05T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=36596"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:51:02","slug":"neighbors-sudoku-ordered-sudoku-by-bill-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/neighbors-sudoku-ordered-sudoku-by-bill-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors Sudoku (Ordered) 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 today&#8217;s Neighbors Sudoku (Ordered), the sequence of the outside clues matters. Make sure clued pairs stay in the given order.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261005-NeighborsSudokuOrdered.png\" alt=\"Neighbors Sudoku (Ordered) Sudoku by Bill Murphy\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261005-NeighborsSudokuOrdered.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/s\/261005Neig\">solve online<\/a> (using SudokuPad)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 165th 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). Outside clues indicate pairs of numbers which must appear immediately adjacent to each other in the given order within that row or column. (For instance, in the third column, 8 and 1 are in adjacent cells with the 8 immediately above the 1.)<\/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\">7:00<\/span>; One party hat (\ud83e\udd73): <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">13:00<\/span>. All other solvers earn a \ud83e\udd95: <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">Home Owners&#8217; Asylosaurus<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">2:05<\/span>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/sudokupad-Bill_Murph-Neighbours_Sudoku-a712-d125.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\/261005-NeighborsSudokuOrdered-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 today&#8217;s Neighbors Sudoku (Ordered), the sequence of the outside clues matters. Make sure clued pairs stay in the given order. PDF or solve online (using SudokuPad) Author\/Opus: This is the 165th puzzle from Bill Murphy, part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) team. 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