New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Wednesday 3/31/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word TRIPLANES.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Tuesday's Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word JAWBONERS.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solutions to Monday night’s Extra Word Sudoku Puzzles

Monday’s extra Qudoku puzzle set challenged you to uncover the four names from Native American traditions for the year’s third full moon.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Tuesday, 3/30/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word JAWBONERS.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Monday's Word Sudoku Puzzle

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word DEPRAVING.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

Extra Word (Full Moon) Sudoku for Monday, 3/29/2010

photo: Jaime JaimeJunior, courtesy publicdomainpictures.net (Full moon)

I’m timing the posting of this blog entry to coincide with the full moon. Weather permitting, Monday March 29 at 10:25 pm EST you’ll witness the third full moon of 2010.

Joe Rao, SPACE.com columnist, instructor at New York's Hayden Planetarium and meteorologist for News 12 in Westchester, New York, explains in http://www.space.com/spacewatch/full-moon-names-2010-100127.html how full moons get their names throughout the year from Native America traditions.

This extra Qudoku puzzle set challenges you to discover the four names of March 2010’s full moon.

CLOWNS
Full Moon Sudoku: 6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the words exactly once

FUR MAP
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the names of this full moon

Solutions first thing in the morning. I’ll continue this theme throughout the year, on the day and hour of each full moon.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Monday, 3/29/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word DEPRAVING.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to the Sunday Challenge Word Sudoku Puzzle

Yesterday’s Sunday Challenge Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the letters in the anagram MIX THEN POURS.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

Sunday Challenge: New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Sunday, 3/28/2010

Today’s 12x12 Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the letters in the anagram MIX THEN POURS.

MIX THEN POURS
Sunday Challenge: 12x12 Hidden Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column and 3x4 rectangle contains the letters in the word or phrase exactly once
The hidden word or phrase is spelled down the diagonal

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

(All puzzles and text contained in this blog are copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, David H. Thompson. All rights reserved. You have my permission to print single copies for your individual solving pleasure, but you may not collect or further distribute these puzzles in any way without my explicit written permission. Please contact me through this blog's comment feature. And please tell your puzzle-loving friends to follow this blog. Thank you!)

Solutions to the Saturday Swifty Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Qudoku puzzle set spelled out an adverbial pun known as a Tom Swifty. This one finds Tom contemplating whether P=NP.

The Sunday Challenge in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku (Swifty Sudoku!) Puzzles for Saturday, 3/27/2010

It’s a rooster!" clucked Tom cockily.

A Tom Swifty is an adverbial pun that simultaneously describes a speaker and refers to the speaker's statement. The name comes from the Tom Swift book series for young readers. The authors were roundly criticized for overusing adverbs and descriptive phrases, so that Tom hardly ever said "said" and rarely said anything without a qualifying adverb. A Tom Swifty pun is a parody of this style.

PUSHBACK
Swifty Sudoku: 8x8 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x4 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the words exactly once

LONGTIME
8x8 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x4 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the Tom Swifty

Solutions first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Friday's Word Sudoku Puzzle

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word COMPILERS.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Friday, 3/26/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word COMPILERS.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Thursday's Word Sudoku Puzzle

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word EMULATING.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Thursday, 3/25/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word EMULATING.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Wednesday's Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word AMORTIZES.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Wednesday 3/24/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word AMORTIZES.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to Tuesday's Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the words CHI SQUARE.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Tuesday, 3/23/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the words CHI SQUARE.

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

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solutions to Monday's Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Classic Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the word EUPHONIAS.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Monday, 3/22/2010

Today’s 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the word EUPHONIAS.

EUPHONIAS
AEIOU Sudoku: 9x9 Classic Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column and 3x3 square contains the letters in the word or phrase exactly once

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solution to the Sunday Challenge Word Sudoku Puzzle

Yesterday’s Sunday Challenge Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle was based on the letters in the anagram BRUTAL MYOSIN.

A new puzzle in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

Sunday Challenge: New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Sunday, 3/21/2010

Today’s 12x12 Hidden Word Sudoku puzzle is based on the letters in the anagram BRUTAL MYOSIN.

BRUTAL MYOSIN
Sunday Challenge: 12x12 Hidden Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column and 3x4 rectangle contains the letters in the word or phrase exactly once
The hidden word or phrase is spelled down the diagonal

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

(All puzzles and text contained in this blog are copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, David H. Thompson. All rights reserved. You have my permission to print single copies for your individual solving pleasure, but you may not collect or further distribute these puzzles in any way without my explicit written permission. Please contact me through this blog's comment feature. And please tell your puzzle-loving friends to follow this blog. Thank you!)

Solutions to Saturday’s Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s Qudoku puzzle sets commemorated the beginning of Spring.




The Sunday Challenge in a bit.

Thanks,
--Dave

Solutions to Friday’s Extra Word Sudoku Puzzles

Yesterday’s extra Qudoku puzzle set was based on a quote from a Cornell computer scientist in the New York Times, offering advice about protecting ourselves online.

Thanks,
--Dave

New Word Sudoku Puzzles for Saturday, 3/20/2010

Today is the Vernal Equinox—traditionally, the beginning of Spring. As always, we turn to Wikipedia for a concise definition: In spring, the axis of the Earth tilts more toward the Sun and the length of daylight increases; the hemisphere begins to warm significantly, causing new plant growth to spring forth. Spring is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life; spring is a metaphor for the start of better times.

Astronomically speaking, an equinox occurs when the tilt of the Earth's axis is neither away from nor towards the Sun—the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. This happens twice a year. The term equinox is used in common language as the date when an equinox occurs.

RANGES
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

PHYLUM
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

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



THWACK
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

PROVED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

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

Solutions first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave