Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 95

Right at the top, I wanted to mention that this weekend, November 4-5, there will be a 24-hour livestream on Twitch to raise funds for a sudoku convention in Boston in April 2025. The convention may be a long way away, but these things take a lot of time and money to plan, and this stream is the first big step toward making it happen.

There’s a lot planned, as you might imagine, including a speed-solving exhibition with Tantan Dai (gold medalist at the recent World Sudoku Championship), interviews, instructional segments, and live solves of a huge variety of puzzles. I’ll even be making a rare on-camera appearance for a trivia game with the setters behind Cracking the Cryptic’s daily GAS puzzles. Please check it out, and please make a donation if you can!

Also, thanks so much to Luda3 for this week’s first puzzle! If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle, please reach out to me on Discord or reply to this email.

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1. Arrested Assassin’s Afterthought, by Luda3