Chinese Sudoku #1

One of the joys of being a member of the international puzzling fraternity is the variety of people from around the world that you get to meet.  Whilst at the World Championships held in Sofia last October I was very pleased to make the acquaintance of some of the Chinese team, a formidable group of solvers whose brilliance is all the more remarkable given their young age.

I was even more pleased to receive a thick wad of printed monthly tests that the BEET "Brain Extremely Exhausted Time" Puzzle Club have put together.  There really seems to be no end to the number of puzzles I could be solving before we all meet again.

Anyhow, we have maintained correspondence and I'm very pleased to have been given permission to share a recent monthly test with a wider audience.

The title of the contest is:

The 16th CSOC - Zodiac
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With thanks to YangPei for authoring and Righthand for testing.  It's a lovely set of puzzles with an interesting challenge at the end to tie everything together.

Finally, whilst it seems a little fruitless to provide a link given that I'm sure the majority of my dearest readers won't be able to understand the website, and indeed my would-be dearest readers in China have various issues trying to reach any link on Google's blogger platform, I will do so anyway out of politeness:

http://www.sudokufans.org.cn

Enjoy!