For the Love of Sudoku

I have always loved Sudoku — from the moment I started my first puzzle, the logic just clicked for me. Of course, like most, I enjoyed solving the easy ones because they were quick and, well, easy.

But soon I moved to intermediate, advanced, hard, challenging, and diabolical — all fun, some taking a lot of time to solve, but still I wanted more.

That’s where variants with different constraints came in.

I joined an online competition a few years ago and discovered a whole new world of puzzles. I only lasted about three rounds that first time — discouraged because I hadn’t yet learned the different strategic thinking these new constraints required.

Fast forward a few years, and now I’m in the competition purely for the joy of learning new and marvelous variations — always interesting, always something new to learn, and always keeping my brain engaged. With the competition only being one week a month for eight months, I wanted more — so here’s the big goal.

The World Puzzle Federation Sudoku Grand Prix has all their competition puzzles archived going back to 2014. You will have to sign up for a free account with them if you wish to access their archive, but that also gets you access to current competition puzzles.

Here we go!