Suduro for February 27, 2009: Hard
Friday, February 27th, 2009Click for printable version Puzzle 290
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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: The gray squares cannot be fully solved without solving a hard Sudoku problem to find most of the white squares using most of the gray squares, at which point you can finally complete the gray quares to complete the white squares.
Want more? Here are some archived puzzles: Easy, Moderate, Challenging, Hard, Brutal, Yesterday’s Puzzle
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By Dan Tow, Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved