Friday Puzzles #281

A couple of pieces of bookkeeping firstly this week.  Firstly, last Saturday I managed to simultaneously not have a brain-freeze or make a mistake that I didn't catch, and in doing so took my 3rd Times Sudoku championship.  The write-up in the newspaper on Monday was spectacularly mediocre, and to make matters worse none of the puzzles were actually published.

To put this right, I will be putting together a trademark championship report.  I also have copies of the puzzles from both preliminary sessions, but if anyone happens to have the grand final puzzles I would certainly be interested in seeing those again.

Next piece of bookkeeping is I've been toying with a few hitori ideas this week, prompted by this excellent post on the UKPA forums.  Maybe I'll go with that for next Friday.

Anyhow, onto this week's puzzle, less than half an hour late!  Enjoy...

    #321 WINdoku – rated medium

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Friday Puzzles #280

I'd like to tell you that this puzzle wasn't in the least bit frustrating to put together.

   #319 Anti-Knight Sudoku – rated medium

And on that bomb-shell:

    #320 Diagonal Sudoku – not rated

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Friday Puzzles #279

I dare you to tell me this is too easy.  I double dare you.

Enjoy!

    #318 Diagonal Sudoku – rated easy

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Friday Puzzles #278

Classic Sudoku this week.  Writing a good classic is a very much under appreciated art - it's much easier to do a variant most of the time.  This one is OK but there's still plenty of room for improvement!

    #317 Sudoku – rated medium

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The Art of Puzzles: Consecutive Pairs Sudoku

And here is the last of the Consecutive Pairs Sudoku appearing on Grandmaster Puzzles this week.

As a bonus, this Consecutive Pairs Sudoku by talented author Ashish Kumar recently went up on The Daily League.  It's nice to see the idea taking off!