Unwrapping the festive sudoku: A Critical Line puzzle
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Happy new year puzzlers!
I hope you had a delightful festive season full of joy, excitement and maybe a bit of head-scratching as you pondered over December’s Critical Line puzzle. Thank you to all 23 puzzlers who sent in their attempt! Without further ado, it is time to reveal the solution to the suspiciously empty sudoku.
The tricky elves hid the sudoku puzzle in the ‘Christmas tune’ included at the top of the puzzle.
No musical training was needed - each note converts to a number based on its pitch (its height on the sheet music) with rests representing blanks. From there, it’s a matter of filling in the grid like any normal sudoku. Here is the completed sudoku puzzle with black numbers converted from the music and blue numbers solved afterwards:
The completed sudoku puzzle with black numbers converted from the music and blue numbers solved afterwards.
Congratulations to the first 10 successful solvers:
As a belated gift, Ada Wong was randomly selected from these first 10 solutions and has won the prize of a $100 voucher from the Actuaries Institute!
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