#17 requests 53 perform spell “Time Out!”

(Takes off helmet.)

Dear fans, young and old, I hope you are as mystified yet confused by the start of “Ready Layer One” and the “Twelve Days of Sudoku” as I am. This work and the notes on “unfinished” puzzle ideas that we are producing **as needed** day by day has a lot of potential for a multi-week+ experience that is customized to solver’s interest level in the puzzles and the connection with their designer. Think The Game meets Dungeons and Dragons. While the initial layer only features things that interest me, the thought was some community connections would plant ideas and even puzzles to expand further in particular play sessions. We aren’t there yet. We’re still at the point where we are dealing with doubt on the work given lack of instructions, and with fear about my genius/mania with psychosis (an important conversation to have and part of the RLO experience but I’m doing ok and “Still Alive” and “No Surprises” are happy songs in my formulation). Please don’t try to race to beat mars (not an important goal as mars was a nickname I used on crocopuzzle when I wanted to stay anonymous in chasing uvo but my secret identity was stolen from me because I was obviously a cheater or someone special).

We recognized after launch that we should have put some labels on the Ready Layer One box, to make it clear that only those who have known me for 18 years or more can do the launch puzzle on their own and not with a small team and willingness for creative research. If you don’t know all of the puzzle tropes or have familiarity with my old writings, publications, …, it will be tricky in a small number of places. But the first gate has been available since day one for those with the desire to cross it. For those who are still wondering what they get for hitting the solve button and haven’t gone to see covfefe yet, you should wait for a more guided experience later with warm-up puzzles. I may even join in on those play sessions directly to make sure nothing really crazy is coming up while you get your bearings as that helps us know how to edit. For those who have submitted covfefe, I expect to give the first year prize to NAMI (general) and NAMI (San Mateo County) since no one is on track to claim it. The prize in 2024 being to give away $10,000 to do most good, with winners submitting a proposal for evaluation as it is a hard problem to give purposefully.

For the next couple days we will be slowing down and not releasing progression puzzles, just doing more fun things with the Twelve Days of Sudoku posts (but not the extra parts). We are waiting to at least see some people commenting on interesting things or submitting new ideas / challenges for constructors as the TDoS is a course to open the mind, not a competition even if it also works within RLO. We meant these ideas to be a blossom of creativity not a blue screen of death. There still isn’t even much consideration on CtC Discord, so I think the world is sleeping on (classic) Sudoku. If you aren’t asleep, contact me.

Let’s go slow for a bit within this community to make sure everyone is seeing the experience we’re building together at the right time. Great job team. Seven days to go.

(puts on helmet, game back on.)

The Twelve Days of Sudoku #4 by Thomas Snyder

Sudoku by Thomas Snyder

PDF

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

Author/Opus: This is the 538th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:30, Master = 6:30, Expert = 13:00

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.

Motivational Poster 1/4: Circle Takes the Square

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(Congrats to Mars on their recent progress finding the first “key” word. This is a stand-alone puzzle, but may fit thematically within or lend connections back to the world of Ready Layer One. Solutions (with explanation) or any kind of new puzzle using the grid to the right are welcome at ads@gmpuzzles.com, best options each of next three mornings will appear here, or something else an AI generated if nothing qualifies.)

The Twelve Days of Sudoku #3 by Thomas Snyder

Sudoku by Thomas Snyder

PDF

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

Theme: One Small Step 4 2-getherness, One Giant Leap 2 4-get

Author/Opus: This is the 537th (A), 537th (B) puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 11:00, Master = 17:00, Expert = 34:00

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.

The Twelve Days of Sudoku #2 by Thomas Snyder

Sudoku by Thomas Snyder

PDF

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

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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