New Word Sudoku Puzzles for Friday, 9/12/2008

New Word Sudoku Puzzles for Friday, 9/12/2008

Today's 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word YARMULKES:

YARMULKES
9x9 Classic Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column and 3x3 square contain the letters in the word or phrase exactly once

Your second puzzle today continues the AEIOU theme I began yesterday, where I'm presenting puzzles that answer a puzzler posed by NPR Puzzle Master and New York Times Crossword Editor Will Shortz: find a nine-distinct-letter word using all five vowels, where the vowels are in the odd-numbered letter positions (so the word is in the form VCVCVCVCV, where V=vowel and C=consonant).

Yesterday I presented you the first of the 10 possible solutions I found. I will probably present you the five or so most common words as puzzles; the remainder are, if not downright arcane, at least unusual or quite specific to a scientific domain. Here's the next one.

I CLEAN OUT
AEIOU (Odd) Sudoku: 9x9 Hidden Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column and 3x3 square contain the letters in the anagram exactly once
The hidden word or phrase is spelled down the diagonal and contains all 5 vowels (a, e, i, o and u, in some order)
In addition, the odd-numbered letter positions of the hidden word or phrase are vowels

Solutions first thing in the morning. Later Saturday, I'll present a Diagonal Word Sudoku puzzle. And of course, on Sunday, I'll present you with a tougher Sunday Challenge, a 12x12 Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle.

Thanks,
--Dave