I never know what to write in this space. Maybe I shoud start using it like a jumbotron? If you have a personal message you’d like to share through meta-text, send it in!

Sometimes I give a puzzle a name that kind of implies I don’t like it, like Hodgepodge. These are often my favorite puzzles.

Happy birthday, hope you ate all your hot dogs! (No, I will not be explaining this.)

I keep forgetting about given digits, but they’re back this week!

One of the puzzle names seems intuitive enough, but the others are all pretty out-of-nowhere.

If you’re a student starting a new school year, and you’re anything like me, I hope you enjoy these puzzles while sort of paying attention in class.

This being a prime week kind of snuck up on me, so you’re going to have to assemble the prime bonus puzzle yourself.

See you all next summer in Ottawa!

Scheduling this in advance. If everything went as planned, I’m currently in [undisclosed European city] recovering after a fantastic weekend!

I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I’m going to be speaking at SudokuCon. But don’t let that discourage you from going!

Zipper lines continue to ease their way into the roster of “standard” constraints.

This Sunday, on the SudokuCon Twitch channel: the Setter Spotlight Series returns, featuring Marty Sears!

Bet you thought I forgot about given digits…

It occurs to me belatedly that it might have been nice to do something World Cup-themed, but, ironically, I’ve been too distracted by the World Cup.

One of the fun things about the prime bonus puzzles is that (I like to assume) they’re always a surprise. Like, did you know off the top of your head that 233 is prime? I certainly didn’t.

This week: the 10/10 difficulty rating makes a rare appearance.

I don’t recall exactly why I chose to name a puzzle after the fundamental rule of improv comedy, but I *think* my reasons were more positive than negative.

This feels like another slate where there’ll be quibbling about the difficulty ratings. Especially with the third puzzle. And the second one. And both bonus puzzles.

I’ve never had an actual choco banana, but if they’re anything like the puzzle genre, probably pretty tasty.

Be aware: the fog puzzle does NOT say “all clues are standard.”

Featuring puzzles called Music Box, Carousel, and Turntable, which almost seem like they were put together to fit a theme of some kind. I assure you, they weren’t.

To all the new subscribers who signed up after last week’s volume, welcome! Have some more puzzles…

The multiples of 45 are my favorite posts of the year, so it’s nice that they actually come along every ten months or so.

Starting to feel like I’m getting a little *too* generous with given digits, tbh.

Closing in on another multiple of 45...

Feels like I should’ve found a way to make this one 2-themed. Well, roughly 11% of the digits in the puzzles are 2, so there’s that.

For anyone expecting a Prime Week Bonus Puzzle, sorry! You’ll have to wait two more weeks, this one’s a multiple of 13 and 17.

Hope you can set the book down long enough to give these puzzles a shot.

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If you’re reading this tomorrow, happy Book Release Day!

I’m going to be coy and decline to say which one, but one of this week’s puzzles is among my all-time favorites.

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.

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

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

Just received some advance copies of the Artisanal Sudoku book. It looks good!

Introducing another new feature that no one asked for! (Pretty excited about this one, tbh.)

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

At long last, another Prime Week Bonus Puzzle! Been looking forward to unleashing this one…

In which I make a rare attempt at pulling off a pure cage puzzle that’s both difficult and good.

Tough to go wrong with cages and arrows.

Celebrating an olympiad of puzzles.

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!

Who says nobody uses two-digit arrow pills?

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.

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.

Don't panic.

In which I’ve finally appeared on a podcast.

Celebrating 200 weeks of approachable puzzles with a set of puzzles that are... probably somewhat less so.

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.)

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.