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Brand new hand-crafted variant sudokus, delivered to your inbox every Monday morning.
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Volume 202
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 202
In which I’ve finally appeared on a podcast.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Volume 200 Bonus Pack (somehow I forgot to post this here last week, sorry!)
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 200 Bonus Pack
Celebrating 200 weeks of approachable puzzles with a set of puzzles that are... probably somewhat less so.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Volume 201
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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.)
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Volume 200 (!)
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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.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Volume 199
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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).
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October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Volume 198
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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!
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October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Volume 197
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 197
In which I unleash a puzzle with 21 different rules, all of which are employed incorrectly.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Volume 196
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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…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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
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...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Volume 195. Announcing the Artisanal Sudoku book, available for pre-order now!
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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.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Volume 194
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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.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Volume 193
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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.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Volume 192
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 192
I’ll always appreciate a one-visible-cell fog break-in.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Volume 191
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 191
At long last, another prime week.
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September 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Volume 190
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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…
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August 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Volume 189
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 189
Featuring a *bonus* bonus puzzle, and the Artisanal Sudoku debut of unique constraints.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Volume 188
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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?
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August 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Volume 187
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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.
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August 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Volume 186
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 186
Special thanks to quad circles for this week’s slate.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Volume 185
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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)!
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July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Volume 184
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 184
Was kind of hard to believe I hadn’t called a puzzle Circular Logic before now…
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July 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Volume 183
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 183
Featuring a solid contender for toughest puzzle in Artisanal Sudoku history.
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July 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Volume 182
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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.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Volume 181
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 181
Starting off a new block of 45 with not one, but two prime week bonus puzzles.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Volume 180. No paywall in this one, bonus puzzles and hints for all!
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Artisanal Sudoku, Volume 180
Celebrating four complete sets of 1-9 worth of sudokus.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM