Saturday, March 7, 2009

New Word Sudoku Puzzles (Qudoku!) for Saturday, 3/7/2009

New Word Sudoku Puzzles (Qudoku!) for Saturday, 3/7/2009

Daylight Saving Time, the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less, begins tomorrow morning at two a.m. That’s the time that I’ve scheduled automatic publication of the solutions to today’s Word Sudoku puzzles. So in how many hours will the solutions appear? The apparent difficulty of answering such questions, especially when the begin- and end-dates keep changing, has kept DST (or summertime, as they call it in the U.K.) controversial throughout its history.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with first suggesting Daylight Saving Time in 1784. But it didn’t really catch on until World War I. During DST, the sun rises one hour later in the morning, according to the reset clock, and sets one hour later in the evening. The U.S. government claims it saves energy. There are a lot of doubters. Wikipedia has a great map showing which countries follow the convention. And TimeandDate.com has a nice explanation of DST.

I celebrate the time change by offering you two Qudoku puzzle sets, each based on three 6x6 Word Sudoku puzzles. The first puzzle set spells out a quote by Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA), as quoted in the Associated Press in the summer of 2005.

STURDY
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

BEHALF
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

MOVING
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled letters contains the letters in each anagram exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cell in the quote grid to spell out the quote

The second puzzle spells out a famous song lyric that questions why we even ask…

WORKED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

THINGS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle

CYMBAL
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
In each puzzle, each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled letters contains the letters in each anagram exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cell in the quote grid to spell out the lyric

Solutions first thing in the morning, at whatever time that may be.

Thanks,
--Dave

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