Artisanal Sudoku

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 217 Just over a fortnight left to pre-order the Artisanal Sudoku book! If you don’t pre-order before March 17, you’ll just have to regular-order.

Volume 217
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 216 This week’s slate has some all-timers in the realm of “I don’t know why it’s called that.”

Volume 216
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 215 It was tough, but I managed to stop watching the Olympics for just long enough to put another slate of puzzles together.

Volume 215
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 214 Just received some advance copies of the Artisanal Sudoku book. It looks good!

Volume 214
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 213 Introducing another new feature that no one asked for! (Pretty excited about this one, tbh.)

Volume 213
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 212 Featuring a puzzle for which my notes from testing include the line, “pretty scattered, but one of the best examples of it”.

Volume 212
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 211 At long last, another Prime Week Bonus Puzzle! Been looking forward to unleashing this one…

Volume 211
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 210 In which I make a rare attempt at pulling off a pure cage puzzle that’s both difficult and good.

Volume 210
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 209 Tough to go wrong with cages and arrows.

Volume 209
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 208 Celebrating an olympiad of puzzles.

Volume 208
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 207 As always, this is a sudoku newsletter, not a holiday acknowledger, but if you’re celebrating anything this week, I hope you stay safe and have a great time!

Volume 207
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Hm... that's strange, it works when I try it. Is it possible you had an error somewhere else?

Hi, thanks for reaching out. I'm not sure I understand where the glitch is, can you give me more information? Solution checking seems to be working for those cells and for the puzzle in general, as far as I can tell

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 206 Who says nobody uses two-digit arrow pills?

Volume 206
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 205 I know *just* enough about programming to feel like I’m really playing with fire any time I put an apostrophe in a puzzle title.

Volume 205
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 204 Huge thanks to the Falcons for once again being so deeply uninspiring, giving me plenty of time to work on puzzles and related ventures this fall.

Volume 204
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 203 Don't panic.

Volume 203
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 202 In which I’ve finally appeared on a podcast.

Volume 202
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Oh, just realized both of your comments are probably about the vault puzzle, not the paywalled bonus puzzle. If so, I hope my other response clarifies things. (And interesting that it almost works with the diagonal restriction! I guess that's essentially how two-cell cages work with the vault rule.)

I'm pretty confident that all of my puzzles are unique (but mistakes can happen, obviously). Do you have a screenshot showing the other solution and/or the point where it's unresolvable? I know it's paywalled, but I don't mind if you post it here (for this purpose, at least 😀)

A digit in a cage can't be in a cell that's orthogonally adjacent to *any cell in that cage*. So, for example, because 1 is in the 6-cage in r5c2, it can't be adjacent to it in r6c4.

Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 200 Bonus Pack Celebrating 200 weeks of approachable puzzles with a set of puzzles that are... probably somewhat less so.

Volume 200 Bonus Pack (somehow I forgot to post this here last week, sorry!)
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 201 If you’re wondering why one of the puzzle names is in Portuguese… honestly, so am I. (I’m also not taking questions about why one of the bonus puzzle names is in Italian.)

Volume 201
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Gallery of Failure [TSL][S1T4] — Rätselportal — Logic Masters Deutschland Die Webseite des Vereins Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

Thanks! Yeah, it definitely came from trying a similar setup and seeing what it did to 1s and 9s. In fact, you can see the original idea here:
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 200 As someone who has not, traditionally, been great at sticking with projects, 200 weeks in a row is pretty wild. Already excited about the next 200.

Volume 200 (!)
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 199 In which I ask subscribers to send in questions (and hope I actually get some, instead of having to make them up myself).

Volume 199
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 198 Shout out to the wrens who built a nest next to my workspace a few months ago, inspiring the name of the second puzzle. Hope you’re all doing well!

Volume 198
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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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