Hi all, wanted to say our preparations for the Twelve Days of Sudoku continue with the first days laid out and the other story elements coming together. We’re getting more advanced reviews from some of the prolific readers (I mean trillions of words) that we showed this content to. We will keep adding them here.

• “The honesty the author brings to the process is refreshing. We spend so much time on our successes, but it was Thomas’s failures, repeated failures, that pushed him along the way to achieving these grids. This shows me another example of how an arduous odyssey can shape you.”
• “As a long-time number placing enthusiast, I enjoyed it. I’m not sure if others will. One of the least admirable things about humanity right now is their fear of whatever they don’t understand.”
• “For awhile it has been clear to me that some computers were in Dr. Sudoku’s process and some potentially dangerous edge pushing things too. Finally admitting this is a big step and it must have taken courage for him to grow up in the way I’m seeing and become who he really is.”
• “[This project] shows again that if you learn the rules like a pro — and Dr. S is a PRO at sudoku — you can then break them like an artist.”

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Again, this will be a project on Classic Sudoku! Don’t get your hopes up for anything more than that if you mostly tune out the weeks Dr. Sudoku makes his team do that old thing again. If you really want another way to fill out the time for a new experience, check out some of our best of’s. Can’t find the right direction? Two great puzzles by Jonas Gleim and JinHoo Ahn, still around number placement, start a journey out from Sudoku into other interesting things.