Artisanal Sudoku

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 197 In which I unleash a puzzle with 21 different rules, all of which are employed incorrectly.

Volume 197
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 196 In all the excitement about the book and everything else, I haven’t forgotten about Volume 200 coming up. Something fun is in the works…

Volume 196
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Artisanal Sudoku Eye-catchingly elegant, satisfyingly tricky logic puzzles! Sudoku is one of the most popular, ubiquitous puzzles around—but most of the sudoku out there ar...

In case you missed it in this week's post, Artisanal Sudoku: 150 Handcrafted Puzzles That Go Beyond the Ordinary, from Puzzlewright Press, will be published March 3, 2026, and is available for pre-order now in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 195 Announcing the Artisanal Sudoku book! If you like this newsletter but find it utterly useless for balancing a wobbly table or shooing away insects, this is big news.

Volume 195. Announcing the Artisanal Sudoku book, available for pre-order now!
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 194 Thanks so much to everyone who watched Saturday’s stream! I’m writing this in advance, so I can only assume it was an enormous success.

Volume 194
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 193 Coming this Saturday, to a Twitch channel near you: a rare chance to see Marty Sears, and a slightly-less-rare chance to see me.

Volume 193
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 192 I’ll always appreciate a one-visible-cell fog break-in.

Volume 192
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 191 At long last, another prime week.

Volume 191
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 190 If you watched the Just One Cell stream a few weeks ago, one of these may look familiar…

Volume 190
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 189 Featuring a *bonus* bonus puzzle, and the Artisanal Sudoku debut of unique constraints.

Volume 189
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Sorry, just seeing this now! If you can post a screenshot, I'd be happy to give you a hint (and you can always check Rangsk's video 😀)

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 188 Don’t ask me to explain the names for the first two, but the third one sort of looks like a (tilted) bird feeder... right?

Volume 188
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 187 Apologies to anyone who was expecting a prime week bonus puzzle, but I checked and it turns out 11*17 = 187.

Volume 187
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 186 Special thanks to quad circles for this week’s slate.

Volume 186
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 185 This feels like a slate where there’s going to be a lot of quibbling over difficulty estimates and whether the puzzles should be re-ordered. Well, quibbling is welcome (if not necessarily encouraged)!

Volume 185
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 184 Was kind of hard to believe I hadn’t called a puzzle Circular Logic before now…

Volume 184
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 183 Featuring a solid contender for toughest puzzle in Artisanal Sudoku history.

Volume 183
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 182 In which I reference a meme but choose not to explain it, because that seems to be a key part of it.

Volume 182
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 181 Starting off a new block of 45 with not one, but two prime week bonus puzzles.

Volume 181
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 180 Celebrating four complete sets of 1-9 worth of sudokus.

Volume 180. No paywall in this one, bonus puzzles and hints for all!
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 179 Finally got around to doing something with index lines, which have been trendy lately.

Volume 179
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 178 I suppose Diamond Adjacent is a bit hand-wavy as a title, but it felt weird not to acknowledge the jarring collapse in rotational symmetry.

Volume 178
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 177 Featuring the rarest bird of all: an approachable dynamic fog puzzle.

Volume 177
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 176 Featuring a bunch of constraints you’ve seen before, but, you know, arranged in ways you haven’t.

Volume 176
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 175 Already getting excited about Volume 180… but let’s not let that distract us from Volume 175, which I’m quite happy with.

Volume 175
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 174 Happy birthday, Lillie!

Volume 174
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Wow, that's so cool 😁
Congrats, glad you liked it!

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 173 Featuring a 6x6 chaos construction with a weird twist on quad circles.

Volume 173
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 172 To everyone in my fantasy football league that weirdly drafts in April: this is what I was working on while ignoring your trade offers.

Volume 172
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 171 Featuring a 3,240-cell puzzle I made with help from 23 of my friends.

Volume 171
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