The Art of Puzzles

(This post is part of the Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS) series.)
Will your puzzle solving find its target or miss the mark in this Slingshot Sudoku?

To celebrate International Sudoku Day (9/9), enjoy this classic Sudoku in the style of the first “Number Place” puzzles by Howard Garns in 1979. The original Number Place puzzles always had 4 clues in each row, 4 clues in each column, and 4 clues in each region, leaving 45 cells to fill. While those grids were rarely symmetric, I made this puzzle with symmetry in mind. I a...

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Happy International Sudoku Day! Time to celebrate with a Classic Sudoku. Wait, the 9s are conspicuously absent….

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Unlike in a traditional Diagonal puzzle, repetition along the diagonal lines is the goal in this Anti-Diagonal Sudoku.

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Counting to 3 (and also 5 and 6) may be “elementary, my dear Watson,” but that doesn’t mean this Count Different (Circles) Sudoku is.