Suduro for October 19, 2008: Hard
Sunday, October 19th, 2008Click for printable version Puzzle 276
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• Are you stumped? Here’s a more detailed Introduction to Suduro with a fuller explanation of the rules and solution strategies.
• Still stumped? Here’s the Stage-1 answer (filling in just the gray squares).
• Still stumped? Here’s the Complete answer.
To see a special hidden hint/comment about this puzzle, highlight starting here: This looks easy in the beginning, but you can’t solve all the gray squares without first doing a lot of work to solve a hard Sudoku problem to get lots of the white squares using the partial gray-square solution!
Want more? Here are some archived puzzles: Easy, Moderate, Challenging, Hard, Brutal, Yesterday’s puzzle
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Publishers, book agents, newspaper editors, Dan Tow, the inventor of Suduro, has a book of Suduro puzzles ready for immediate publication. Here’s his email address, and the website for his day job.
By Dan Tow, Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved