Upcoming Stream (June 13, 11 AM PT): Thinking Inside and Outside the Box –...
For the first time in awhile we are going to have some new YouTube content, in this case a live stream in collaboration with SudokuCon talking about how to make really special Sudoku. We’ll have some...
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Say Hi to Patches!
Today, in our roles as Principal Puzzlemaster (Thomas) and puzzle providers (Serkan and others) for LinkedIn, we’ve supported the launch of their 7th game: Patches. Patches is a region division puzzle...
View ArticleSudoku’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed?
In this month’s longer video, we’re talking about the “Empty Corner” puzzle from last week, the most basic steps to solve a Sudoku and how some of them are harder than you might expect, and tools and...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Sudoku à la Mode
In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we share some news for GAS, SudokuCon, the Sudoku Puzzlehunt that is part of our series “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku”, and our LinkedIn Mini Sudoku series. We...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Paint by Numbers
In this episode of Today in Sudoku, we show solving techniques for two of the recent Seventeen Sudoku where coloring in different ways may help the solve. Join us every day around 8:45 AM PT to learn...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Spectacular Seventeens
In this ~15 minute episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas talks about the search for minimal Sudoku puzzles, interesting properties across the 49,158 essentially different puzzles, and other discoveries....
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Thomas Plays Some Competition Sudoku
In this ~17 minute episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas talks about the recent Sudoku Grand Prix Round 8 (Japan) results and tries out the hardest classic and the hardest non-sudoku in the round with...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: A Story of Seventeen
In this ~7 minute episode of Today in Sudoku, we share the answer to our question yesterday of what is going on with “Naughty or Nice by Santa Claus” and connect it to the new theme of Seventeen. Join...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: A New AI Prompt for Dr. Sudoku
The first few minutes of this ~22 minute video covers news updates including what August may be like in our series A Story of Self-setting Sudoku. The last 17 minutes include discussion of, and a...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: A Near Miss for Thomas Snyder
The first few minutes of this ~30 minute video cover special news like a GAS hidden puzzle series, a SudokuCon stream, and awesome outputs of the GMPuzzles solving community. Go to the Twitch stream...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: A Near Miss for Dr. Sudoku
In this 4.8 minute long episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas shares the latest news from SudokuCon as well as potentially alarming news at GMPuzzles as we almost had another system crash with Dr....
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: A Story of Self-Setting Sudoku
In this episode of Today in Sudoku, Thomas discusses how AI is affecting his view of many things including blog discussion and puzzle generation which motivated an unusual project to have a daily...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: The Battle of the “Newspapers” #1
In this subseries of Today in Sudoku, world champion Thomas Snyder speed solves the NYTimes Sudoku for the prior day as well as one of his prior puzzles scrambled so he might not recognize it. Watch...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: The Day I Couldn’t Hit the GAS!?!
This video will talk about our early history with GAS team, where we reached 50 published posts on Saturday, a great milestone for us. On the 51st puzzle (shown) something much different happened when...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Déjà Vu Sudoku
To hate a thing, you have to love a thing. To hate a thing, you have to love a thing. That sounds like yesterday’s theme. This video is not about repetitive computer-generated slop, but it is about...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Repetitive, Computer-Generated Slop?
To hate a thing, you have to love a thing. Keep this in mind as you watch this raw video that may venture into delicate spaces but gets at what is important not just about puzzles, but about puzzle...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: The Truth About Snyder Notation
Welcome to the second episode of Today in Sudoku, where we’ll talk about challenges in notation and (BREAKING NEWS!) reveal a new kind of Snyder Notation for outside the box thinking. Join us again...
View ArticleToday in Sudoku: Greatest Day in GMPuzzles History!?!
We’re premiering a new Daily YouTube video series (Today in Sudoku) to help explain our Sudoku content, highlight other projects and news, and we’re going to release it daily around 8:45 AM so it can...
View ArticleThe story so far …
We wanted to share a “the story so far” kind of update for “A Story of Self-setting Sudoku” since a lot of people have not been following very deeply. Importantly, if you just like solving really...
View ArticleHappy July: Quick News Updates for our Sudoku Projects
We have a few site updates for the start of July, which marks the start of our second full month in the Twelve Months of Sudoku!?! project. A playful YouTube recap of the first month of sudoku is in...
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