Monday, April 8, 2024

Extra Word Sudoku (Eclipse Qudoku!) Puzzles for Monday, 4/8/2024

Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse seen from Salem, OR (courtesy Oregon Department of Transportation)
Stars were seen in the heavens.
Today the entire United States—and much of Central and North America—experienced a solar eclipse. First appearing along Mexico's Pacific Coast about 11:07 am PDT, the path of totality traveled across a swath of the US from Texas to Maine, and then on into Canada. NASA estimates almost 32 million people live in the path of totality. The rest saw a partial solar eclipse.

In honor of this day—and remembering the previous ones in October 2023 and August 2017—here are some quotes from antiquity, when eclipses were not always celebrated as wonders of the universe, but as evil omens.

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

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

FROM
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square 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



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

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

GLOW
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

SHUT
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square 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


Eclipse watching from Oregon State Fairgrounds, Salem, OR, Aug. 21, 2017 (Dominic Hart, NASA)
ZENITH
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

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

GULF
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

MOPY
4x4 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x2 square 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


Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse seen from Salem, OR (Courtesy Oregon Department of Transportation)
 
Solutions in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave

 

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