Diminishing Returns: FullDeck & Missing a Few Cards Deliver Returns with this Sudoku

[@missingdeck9999]

We both remember Christmas parties in the UK well enough to issue heartfelt congratulations on making it through this puzzle the morning after! Lovely solve and as always we appreciate your kind words and good cheer. Wishing you a happy holiday season and we do hope to see more morning-after videos through the coming weeks ;)

[@SudokuSleuth]

Thank you for the puzzle, and glad you enjoyed it. Apologies for the audio quality, I clearly recorded with the wrong mic this time around for some reason! Wishing you a happy thanksgiving.

[@jeffmoore688]

Breathtaking puzzle! Huzzah!

[@AditaBattleForge]

around 6:20 I think you disregarded a possibility of 5 with 2 and 3 on the arrow, with 4 above. Took me 30 mins, solver 721. Nice one!

[@SudokuSleuth]

Good call on the 5!

[@allikin75]

21:07 (including some backtracking t the end because I am blind or something). Very fun!

[@annikaQED]

Since it's Thanksgiving over on this side of the pond, it's an appropriate opportunity to thank Sleuth for the sudokus he provides.. They're at the sweet spot in approachability between the stroll-in-the-park GAS puzzle and many of the CTC marathons. And the thumbnails add so much! I remember the great regret I felt as a child when the books I was reading stopped having illustrations 😞. (Maybe I should pick up enough AI to provide my own illustrations for my reading!) Any chance of Sleuth's thumbnails developing into short films??? Anyway, thanks again for the site & the pleasure it provides to so many!

[@SudokuSleuth]

Happy thanksgiving Annika! Hope you have a great holiday with family and loved ones, and thank you for a year of positive and insightful comments 😃

[@CineMiamParis]

It took me forever to find the break-in. Almost gave up. Then it clicked, and from there on, smooth sailing. Cunning devils, these two 😁 A challenging but very nice puzzle

[@SudokuSleuth]

Great job!

[@anaayoung9142]

10:49. Another fun puzzle. This remind me of a jigsaw puzzle! 🤔🧐

[@chrisbrogan3307]

loved this one

[@psiphiorg]

I got off to a quick start on this one, but then broke the puzzle just as quick because suddenly there was nowhere to place a 1 in box 3. My thought there was that the circle in r3c7 had to be the larger digit on the white dot, and you therefore couldn't do 1+2=3○2, 1+3=4○3, 1+4=5○4, etc. That meant the minimum on the r3c89 arrow would be 23, forcing a 5 into the circle and a 4 on the arrow above. I pondered for a while and decided to restart and focus on a different part of the puzzle first. By the time I worked back around to that area, I realized the mistake and was able to work back up the chain. My time today (after the restart) was 12:10, solver number 382.

[@jonbrowne]

20:10 to solve. Another awesome puzzle!

[@niyazali7983]

17:03 for me.

[@Sinisest1121]

16:39 for me today

[@boydegg]

32:07 :)

[@simonwstrong]

Nice solve, but keyboard clicking is very loud on this video. Are you using a different mike to usual ?

[@SudokuSleuth]

Interesting, I don't believe I was, but I will double check next time I am using the correct one!