{"id":36670,"date":"2026-10-17T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=36670"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:22:45","slug":"position-sudoku-by-bill-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/position-sudoku-by-bill-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Position 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>The positions of some large numbers are clued in this puzzle. Can you find the position of everything else that is missing too?<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261017-PositionSudoku.png\" alt=\"Position Sudoku Sudoku by Bill Murphy\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/261017-PositionSudoku.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/s\/261017Posi\">solve online<\/a> (using SudokuPad)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 169th 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). Clues outside the grid give the position of the largest number in the first three cells as seen from the clue. (For example, the clue to the left of row 1 indicates that R1C2 is the largest number in R1C123, while R1C8 is the largest number in R1C789 as given by the clue to the right of the same row.)<\/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\">8:00<\/span>; One party hat (\ud83e\udd73): <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">14:00<\/span>. All other solvers earn a \ud83e\udd95: <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">Spotted Saturnalia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thomas Hits the GAS (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color: white;background-color: white\">2:27<\/span>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2026\/sudokupad-Bill_Murph-Position_Sudoku-a494-d148.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\/261017-PositionSudoku-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.) The positions of some large numbers are clued in this puzzle. Can you find the position of everything else that is missing too? 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