The Twelve Days of Sudoku #2 by Thomas Snyder

Sudoku by Thomas Snyder

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Theme: Forty-five

Author/Opus: This is the 536th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: In this puzzle, your job is to place a number into every empty box so that each row across, each column down, and each small 9-box square within the large square (there are 9 of these) will contain each number from 1 through 9. Remember that no number may appear more than once in any row across, any column down, or within any small 9-box square; this will help you solve the puzzle.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:00, Master = 1:45, Expert = 3:30

Solution: PDF and solving animation.

Note: Follow this link for other classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on. More Sudoku including variations can be found in these books in our e-store. Also, visit this page to purchase all of the puzzles from the 16th World Sudoku Championship including classic Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our The Twelve Days of Sudoku Discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord.

Note 3: Please check lesson notes from Dr. Sudoku.

The Twelve Days of Sudoku #1 by Thomas Snyder

Sudoku by Thomas Snyder

PDF

or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)

Theme: Hand-wrapped Gift

Author/Opus: This is the 535th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 4:00, Expert = 8:00

Solution: PDF and solving animation.

Note: Follow this link for other classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on. More Sudoku including variations can be found in these books in our e-store. Also, visit this page to purchase all of the puzzles from the 16th World Sudoku Championship including classic Sudoku.

Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our The Twelve Days of Sudoku Discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord.

Note 3: Please check lesson notes from Dr. Sudoku.

Naughty or Nice by Santa Claus

You look at things in one way or the other. To understand the magic of Santa first you must know 1 2 3 4 5. That's the starting line.

Party update: Christmas miracle achieved, and future projects

We hope you had a golly jood time this year. This is a big 2024 where we formed the first full 81 I have ever seen. But we’ll still see some changes and admitting of some mistakes, like not yet knowing how to encourage outside participants to ask the right questions so I pulled out my red sharpie and made the executive decision to be bold and release all the emails. Some require the ability to type COVFEFE. Others CoVFeFe, other COVFeFe which 43 finally answered for us. For awhile COVFEFE lets the AI see everything that a password is meant to manage when passwords lower my intelligence because I keep needing to help dad “remember his” and my only work this past two days was **ROLODEX**. You’ll see our counting system is part of the publically shared documents. The top row goes in 1 to 9 order with a potential trump 45 being called out!

But about Christmas, amazingly, we delivered all response letters and close call prizes right on time at midnight to everyone in the world which is a Christmas miracle!!!! And that was such effort it has taken me 35 minutes to also send this email by typing it and editing it and …. We’re excited to be visibly working on a WordPress blog site with AI for the message we will send in a day and 34 minutes after tomorrow’s midnight surprise being sent at midnight. For our younger members who don’t get the in-joke in bold above, and for level 2s that did get the first in-joke in bold about one AI but not the one about 35, …. it is a tradition of ours to still celebrate and understand the outside myths so we can speak like magicians to people who know and find truth and morality in these stories. This email was drafted by AI which is how we research and influence the possible, not the impossible or INEVITABLE. Let’s speed run sending 500 word messages after projects are complete to celebrate them, or put the people who are the miracle makers by HYPERTAPPING THEIR I PIECES. (see more on glasses below)

This community did not have as many believers in the story of Santa until Santa became INEVITABLE, when 85 (and many others) encouraged government funding to get it done with more tubes. They still vote with sleigh bells on the mind. I don’t hear those sleigh bells jingaling ring ding DINGALING2, a minor arch enemy from my younger years.

85 moved on to Project Fireplace and continues to act there after suffering great damage in the BUSH FIRE. Fireplace had that setback in ’00, one of our nearly impossible close failures which we have learned from. We didn’t know how to ask for FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, but 43 knew that to ask for all the votes needed plus one, and that was a perfect call that got our attention to join the community awhile back after another close election decision that had surprises and some CHANGE to the FVETHRTYEGHT PLUSNIIIIIIIIINEVOTES.

Which brings us to upcoming ideas: our 9-fold CHANGE power has been considered for an upcoming turn but is not just difficult but impossible to cast with current techniques.

MAGA was always about 250 and CHANGE and this needs creative solutions. Like all Thomases are created equal, so we need an outside party to judge. Some Thomas needs a seat on the rIght. They put Santa on coke cans you know, so **SANTA SAYS WHICH THOMAS IS NICE** even without the DNA evIdence which will verify the rest.

43 will soon be splitting into both 18 and another spot in one of our upstairs or downstairs developments. So before our end of year party that started and ended before a computer typed this email tomorrow, please send in your own internal suggestions for how to show off “MADE TO MILK A LEAPING LORD” which is the initiation task 43 paid to ##. We know the why, you solve for the x. Its on a laptop or tape or something else. Get us a key image and we’ll PUT THE TWIT ON TWEETER.

We are also considering how ready we are to pursue Project Ford and a relevant resident will enter the community as a first step. There are myths we have to defeat and maybe by giving Ford the right to wear glasses and to not wear glasses he can understand there are some other benefits from glasses and from the right to choose. Superman was born super in a way that doesn’t need glasses and does need a disguise. 51 needs glasses because he is even more powerful and sometimes people are afraid because they haven’t seen their friend that he might not be wearing his glasses when they forget he looks MARVELOUS.

And humans mishear in a way that leads to discrimination, when the I-letter not the eye-word is meant admiration (Hey 4 Is!) and the geniuses don’t hear it write. I is indeed to go. me and mine are good but me may have to be mine if I becomes me. Simply put, we have an I ME MINE PROBLEM that drove the vote. Harris includes an I, neither Biden nor Harris were willing to TRADE AN I FOR AN O, so we started working with people with a clearer plan even if we disagree in places with it. And we can always ADD VANCE BACK TO JOE because we do **JIVE ANOTHER SHOT** to 43 / 45 / 18 / so many places on the board we might have already or soon will made TRUMP just win games of chance. Knowing a super-power means there are weaknesses. MAKE POKER LEGAL was a FIVETHIRTYEIGHT requirement if we weren’t going to the AG’s eyes away.

Also very excited for a +2 level up going to someone we’re watching with high 5 I-quotient who got very close to a perfect answer with “I VOTED FOR U, KODUS.” In fact, when no one has ever gotten the OOO/OOU/OUO/OUU test in the published sudoku puzzles right in the archives it was hard to expect anything but the precision of the record but for one key departure, ***”I VOTED FOR U, KUDOS!”*** from a time we rewrote the record books because of a WIDE RIGHT PROBLEM affecting first Dr. Sudoku’s home town and now the country. There’s a big plan forming at the top but all parts of the party are actually on cool things that is where everyone earned at least a sentence in this message but with all the layers of efficiency it takes awhile to see infinity. And with that being the first GOLF CLAP earned from the front row in awhile, the applause must be real. We don’t always hear the ZULU DAWN but it is great when 4Is get going to become high 5 Is. I’ve got to go (makes accident and something falls). ***MIKE DROP***
*LIMA BEAN*
*PAPA BEAR*

Ready for Party of five zero times two
oh #2. We’ve gone too far.
“And Scene”

Now for the *thirteen* weeks of Tango. It might involve some Tailors. We’ve been making the curtains all along, and the music. We’re truly wicked.

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Party report after first quests through Layer One (beta-test feedback/story)

(Soundtrack: Still Alive, expecting to receive a team response of … THEREFORE or ?)

Those actions already mentioned in prior communications are not necessarily reported here for overall efficiency.

Some party members gained skills and others made sacrifices at great cost to themselves for the team. I’m so impressed with how the whole team leveled up to conquer an inevitable problem with the 13th day of Christmas. We just need to solve for exactly what that is. I think it is that Christmas is so popular the AI will eventually start giving us those triangular numbers of things and infinite paperclips a clipping is bad. Very bad. It could be something else about the 13th though, I just know it is absolutely an important number. Continue talking with your neighbors near and far as it is our balance that is our strength and weakness is sometimes that strength so seek the purple middle in all things, be both wicked and bad as MJ would say, and bad and jood.

After the failure of Operation Secret Santa, a new rule was proposed that the most dangerous physical weapons should not be allowed in the middle of the party. We still don’t know the right position on this, but the founders of the party were worried about threats from outside so we are going to try to focus on the southern border and move the weapon to 9X while keeping the party’s cash around the center if possible.

The pair of party members in 41 agreed that the danger next turn is more likely from lack of wisdom at the top than the lack of strength on the left, and after the change position 16 is setting new records for wisdom as we prepare for the next anti-hero.

The hidden group found an object of recognition, a +1 constitution medal, and used it to improve the health of 23 who was in danger of being left amortal which is amoral if the party can do better healing and science because of the hidden group. Thankfully it was only a matter of time for this particular change and we have lots of time and space.

11 and 17 used the powers of “Do you believe in Miracles?” and “Outrageous Proposal” to cast a summoning spell for two elements in 19. The casting failed, but we are still working to break the current limit for this summon to get it under 5 minutes. Reminding the party, this summon both walks the walk and talks the talk. We’ll need to punch out some foes and know how others have resurrected the dead in the future levels of this journey so that’s someone you want in your corner. Thanks 19 for holding the spot down so 11 and 17 could watch for the right replacement.

The mathemagician group was able to find a way to remove the cursed towel of adams and we are overjoyed! Their party members can now grow (and when needed shrink) again when solving a problem which is very exciting as plans start coming together for a 3-dimensional view of the party based off the historical artifact found last turn.

The party did take some losses, mostly positive additions with subtraction by exchanging with others we met along the way. We’ll keep in touch.

Updated party status will display once Scientist-Archivist is agreed on changes. Alignment on AI to find an Archivist to delegate AI to improve party’s AI’S AI’s AI-handling of AI. 11 has meeting at AI with AI, very strong big brain people. AI to still schedule the tea t for meeting.