Editor’s Note: Updated so you can actually solve it now 🥲
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Sally lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets, and a book about haunted prisons. She never intended for any of this to happen.
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Is the puzzle supposed to be entirely blank when you start?
Alas, it is not! Hopefully can get it fixed as soon as folks in the US wake up!
In the meantime, I’m enjoying making some grid art
I love everything about this
the puzzle is fixed now! such a unique and fun idea!
That almost broke my brain!!
THAT WAS REALLY FUN i’ve never done one with images before!
Love this! My favorite puzzle!
14:16! I didn’t think there was a way to make sudoku gay, but y’all really came through!
An interesting way to make sudoku gay.
Saving for my slow Saturday at work…this may finally make me brave enough to try anything near Sudoku
Whoa. 9 minutes and 42 seconds. So much fun!
Oh this was fun! I like & really appreciate how y’all keep trying new types of puzzles.
I found the flags so much harder than numbers for some reason. But fun!
This took me an embarrassing number of minutes and hints to complete, only I’m not embarrassed I’m delighted thank you
I LOVED this!! It was very challenging for me (not great with logic, numbers etc.) but it felt much more satisfying and wholesome than a numbers sudoku. I would love to do another one with different pictures!
Or another one with pride flags, for that matter!!!
I don’t know the last time I actually stuck with a sudoku puzzle until the end. It took me an hour and 4 minutes but I got there!
Definitely harder than with numbers, but really fun!
I would also appreciate a reminder for which flags mean what next time.
I’ve never been brave enough to do a sudoku before! It took me over 20minutes and I used the grid check a lot to reassure me but I did it!!
this was FANTASTIC, I loved the visual style