Stairway To Heaven LedZeppelin: Will Power sings another melodic Sudoku for us

[@douglasplachy4577]

Nice way to start my Sudoku day! The power of suggestion works, as the tune was playing in my head. Brought me back to the 79’s when I played that album on my turntable.

[@SudokuSleuth]

Rock on!

[@mrpokefan8369]

15:11 for the stairways to Heaven. Nice puzzle, quite fluid solving. Thanks Sleuth

[@StGordo61]

13:13 Pretty happy with the solve, made you think of all competing options in boxes, then unravelled nicely

[@chrisbrogan3307]

It was not so long ago that i would have found this solve very difficult. Thanks for all your help Sleuth!!!!

[@SudokuSleuth]

My pleasure Chris!

[@AditaBattleForge]

smooth 12:34 to solve. #993 - I quite liked the killer cages (plus+) fantastic idea!

[@phoenixaki3458]

This is a good lesson in reading the rules...I got stumped and gave up 15 minutes in just to realize I missed the line about cages of same sums sharing digits 🤦‍♂ 23:30 for me total, which includes a reset around 17 minutes in

[@niyazali7983]

6:34 here. Nice, smooth solve. Cheers, Sleuth.

[@drengskap]

Certainly a step up, musically, from 'Tarzan Boy'!

[@anaayoung9142]

07:13 beaufiful stairs! I like it, appreciated. =)

[@neil2796]

I haven't solved a puzzle in quite some time. This one was a nice return to solving. And I got solve counter 777, which is nice.

[@SudokuSleuth]

Welcome back!

[@mylifeonhigh]

16:15 for me... Fairly smooth.

[@kvom01]

20:34 Using conflict checker and cage options

[@allikin75]

16:27 - Nice logic. Took me a little bit to remember the same sum cage rule. Oops.

[@annikaQED]

Very smooth solve! I wonder how Will Powers used the special killer rule in constructing this puzzle? BTW, will we ever get to hear Sleuth do a guitar intro/outro?

[@SudokuSleuth]

Good question, this would definitely have been the video to do it for!

[@jonbrowne]

11:57 to solve. Lovely puzzle for Monday morning. Thanks Sleuth

[@SudokuSleuth]

Any time!

[@boydegg]

13:38 ... went too fast on my first try and messed up somewhere. Got it second time.

[@Sinisest1121]

12:04 for me

[@psiphiorg]

At 7:30, you pencil-marked the 10 cage, eliminating 28 in one direction (while keeping the other) due to the mismarked 8 in r9c7. Fortunately, the one that you eliminated would have been eliminated otherwise once you pencil-marked the 268 triple into column 4, so it didn't end up affecting your solve much. I, on the other hand, got into some sort of jam where I eliminated 3 from both cells of my 5 cage in row 9 from cells in those columns. I couldn't easily see what I had done wrong, so I just restarted. My time the second time through was 12:07, solver 485. I should really add in the 7 minutes and some change from the first pass, so let's call it ~20 minutes in total.

[@noahvale2627]

Drives me crazy when you mistype.

[@SudokuSleuth]

I assure you, you’re not alone!