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Samurai Sudoku in The Washington Post

In addition to Washington Express who have been printing our Samurai Sudoku puzzles for more than a month, as of Januray 1 our puzzles will feature in The Washington Post and will appear there on a weekly basis, in the Sunday issue.
Super Sudoku Quad Samurai Puzzle Book with Variants

Samarai Sudoku book

Super Sudoku Quad Samurai Puzzle book

Double Samurai Harakiri Sudoku 99 puzzles

Super Sudoku Quad Samurai and variations

Sudoku Samurai Book

Super Sudoku Quad Samurai Puzzles

Super Quad Sudoku Samurai book

Diagonal Samurai Sudoku X

Double Samurai Sudoku Harakiri Compendium

Super Samurai Sudoku, volume 4, 111 puzzles

The Way of Samurai sudoku, volume 9, 111 puzzles

Samurai Sudoku, 500 puzzles, all levels

Super Samurai Sudoku book, volume 3

Easy Samurai Sudoku book

Double Samurai Sudoku Harakiri book

Samurai Sudoku book, volume 8

Super Samurai Sudoku Sumo Sudoku book, vol 2

Multi Sudoku Samurai Loco Sudoku book

Jigsaw Samurai Sudoku book

Sudoku Samurai book, The Way of Samurai 7

Super Samurai Sudoku 13 grids

The Way of Samurai Sudoku, volume 1

The Way of Samurai Sudoku, volume 2

The Way of Samurai Sudoku, volume 3

Samurai Sudoku and other puzzle variants

The Way of Samurai Sudoku, volume 4

The Way of Samurai Sudoku, volume 5

The Way of Samurai, volume 6

Difficult Samurai Sudoku Compendium

UPDATE: I have published the solution to the puzzle printed in The Washington Post. It’s on the Solutions page. We will be posting solutions for future Washington Post Samurai puzzles every Tuesday on the same page.
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31 Comments

  1. z1
    Posted January 9, 2006 at 12:51 am | Permalink

    I messed up Jan 6th and would like to try again. Is there a place to download todays puzzle before solution on tuesdat?

  2. Posted January 9, 2006 at 1:45 am | Permalink

    z1, you can’t download the puzzle, but you can download a blank samurai grid from here: http://www.djapedjape.com/?p=39

    Then, just fill in the givens and start over!

    Good luck.

  3. quixle
    Posted February 1, 2006 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

    Can you also include the actual puzzles published in the Washington Post in addition to their solutions?

  4. Posted February 1, 2006 at 11:33 pm | Permalink
  5. Linda
    Posted March 4, 2006 at 11:48 pm | Permalink

    The Samurai Sudoku in the Washington Post was great the first couple of weeks but now seems too difficult. I have gotten a lot of people hooked on Sudoku but they are all complaining about the last 3 weeks of the Samurai Sudoku. Can you go back to a medium level in difficulty?

  6. chet
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 4:22 am | Permalink

    I could not find the solution to the samurai sudoku published in the wachington post on sunday march 12, 2006. Please provide some help.

  7. Posted March 24, 2006 at 9:56 am | Permalink

    chet, earlier solutions are in the archive: http://www.djapedjape.com/gallery.php

    the solution to last Sunday’s puzzle is on the solutions page:
    http://www.djapedjape.com/?page_id=19

  8. Cristina
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 3:59 am | Permalink

    Dear djape,

    I cannot find the solution to Samurai Sudoku from Friday 03/24 found in the, “Express lookout weekend lookout section of the Washington Post.” Could you please help.

    Thank you,
    Cristina

  9. Posted April 2, 2006 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    Dear Cristina,

    This (and all previous) solutions can be found in the puzzle archive: http://www.djapedjape.com/gallery.php

  10. Robert Maio
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    April 2, Washington Post sudoku has an error in the very center square. 6, 4, and 7 can’t be where they are. HELP!!

  11. Robert Maio
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    The concentration is in the large center square of the five squares.

    The very center open box is a nine (it is the only missing number in that square). This results in the bottom left box of the lower center square also being a nine (since a nine appears in the center and right columns it must also appear in the left). In tat same square a seven goes in the lower right box for the same reason. This leaves two open boxes in the lower, center square that logically take a six and a four, the only missing numbers in that square. Now, moving to the top center square, a six and a four must both occupy the top left box, an impossibility.

    Now, where did I go wrong?

  12. Robert Maio
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    Don’t bother tgelling me wher I went wrong. I found the error. Mea Culpa.

  13. Posted April 2, 2006 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    Hi Robert,

    Could you please provide more details? I’m pretty sure that the puzzle is Ok and has no errors.

    Also, I suggest you to read the following articles first:

    http://www.djapedjape.com/2006/02/08/sudoku-samurai-rules/

    http://www.djapedjape.com/2006/03/06/all-puzzles-have-one-solution-only/

    http://www.djapedjape.com/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87

    It is often easy to make a mistake in a Samurai puzzle which causes you to think there is a problem with the puzzle itself.

    Good luck!

  14. Cristina
    Posted April 8, 2006 at 2:19 am | Permalink

    Dear DJApe,

    The Samurai puzzle I’m working on has a difficulty level of Welterweight. It’s from Fri Mar 24 Wash. Post. I looked in the archives for the solution and I couldn’t find one for this date. Help! Let me know where I can look. Thank you!!

  15. Posted April 8, 2006 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

    Cristina, I think you are referring to a puzzle from Washington Express, not The Post. The Post publish puzzles on Sundays, The Express on Fridays.

    Unfortunately, we only post solutions to puzzles from The Post. That’s the deal.

  16. Ellen Beck
    Posted April 25, 2006 at 6:15 pm | Permalink

    need solution to April 23, 2006 Washington Post Samurai Sudoku – I THINK I GOT IT ! ! !

  17. Posted April 29, 2006 at 8:12 pm | Permalink

    The Samurai Sudoko in the April 23 Wash Post seemed to be missing a printed number in the lower right square. I finally finished it by guessing at one of the blank spaces. Everything came out OK – but we are not supposed to guess! Were all the needed numbers printed in the lower right hand square?

  18. Bob Reikowski
    Posted May 16, 2006 at 10:38 pm | Permalink

    Sunday, May 14th.
    I thought it was easy, everything was going great, then I hit a wall. Just so you know, I purchased 3 sunday papers, trying to figure out where I went wrong.
    You should hit the wash post for some coin, cause I threw the rest of the papers away!

  19. Posted May 16, 2006 at 11:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi Bob, hopefully you eventually managed too solve the puzzle. If not, feel free to ask for advice – that way you would learn better how to solve these puzzles and this problem wouldn’t happen again. 🙂

    By the way, you can now order an e-book with these puzzles to practice! Have a look at this post: http://www.djapedjape.com/2006/05/16/the-way-of-samurai-101-samurai-sudoku-puzzles/

  20. Myrna Frankle
    Posted November 16, 2006 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    The solution you published on 11/14/06 is not related to the Samurai Sudoku in the 11/12/2006 Washington Post, i.e., the pre-printed numbers in the Post puzzle aren’t the same in your “solution” puzzle.

  21. Myrna Frankle
    Posted November 16, 2006 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    Oops, scratch that last email. I was looking at the wrong solution. Now I’ve got the right one. Sorry.

  22. rachael
    Posted December 10, 2006 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    i was just checking out your website becuz like many other washingtonians i have recently become addicted 2 these puzzles. but what i really wanted 2 comment on was the fact that you actually take the time 2 read and reply 2 ppl’s questions instead of just having a faq link thingy. very very cool of you. that’s all except 4 maybe a thankyou. thankyou.

  23. Zehra Sinnar
    Posted June 21, 2007 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

    Samurai Sudokus in Washington Post are challenging, but lately there are Level 1 Sudokus that are too easy. Could you stick to Level 2 and 3?

    Zehra

  24. Myrna
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 2:03 am | Permalink

    I wanted to download a blank samurai sudoku, which I’ve done before from your website, because it’s hard to read the one from the Post (after I’ve erased a few times). 🙁 I can’t find it on the site. Help, please.

  25. Kevin
    Posted November 21, 2007 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    I found two alternate solutions to the Upper Left corner of the Washington Post Samurai Sudoku on Sunday Nov. 11 2007. Something doesn’t make sense so I thought I’d ask. With the bottom right corner being:
    9,1,5
    6,7,2
    3,4,8
    I get
    6,4,7,8,1,9,2,5,3
    8,9,1,2,3,5,4,6,7
    2,3,5,4,6,7,1,8,9
    3,1,8,9,7,6,5,2,4
    9,6,4,5,8,2,7,3,1
    7,5,2,1,4,3,8,9,6
    4,7,3,6,2,8,9,1,5
    1,8,9,3,5,4,6,7,2
    5,2,6,7,9,1,3,4,8
    and
    4,3,7,8,1,6,2,5,9
    8,9,1,4,2,5,7,6,3
    2,6,5,9,3,7,1,8,4
    3,1,8,5,7,9,4,2,6
    9,7,4,6,8,2,5,3,1
    6,5,2,1,4,3,8,9,7
    7,4,3,2,6,8,9,1,5
    1,8,9,3,5,4,6,7,2
    5,2,6,7,9,1,3,4,8
    Where is the error?

  26. Posted November 21, 2007 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Kevin, in order to find the error I need you to send me entire solutions, not just partial ones. This is clearly explained here:
    http://www.djapedjape.com/?p=144

    So, before I can respond to your claim, I need you to send me at least two solutions for the whole puzzle, not just for one of the sub-puzzles.

    Kind regards

  27. Posted November 22, 2007 at 10:13 am | Permalink

    Kevin, it seems that some givens are not in your solutions and that is causing you problems. Please triple-check everything again and let me know if you still think that there is an error.

  28. Laura B.
    Posted December 10, 2007 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    I’m trying to find a solution to some Samurai puzzles published in the Washington Express paper on Fridays. (I’m not always able to obtain the paper.) Are they hidden somewhere on your website? If so (or if not), how do I get them? I really enjoy the Samurai puzzles!

  29. Posted December 11, 2007 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    Hi Laura, unfortunately the deal with the Express is not the same as with The Post.

    I only show solutions for puzzles from The Post. Solutions to the puzzles from The Express are not hidden on this site, they simply are not there at all.

    Sorry. 🙁

  30. Mark Thieda
    Posted January 10, 2008 at 7:06 am | Permalink

    Trying to find a solution to the washington post samuri sodoku posted on sunday dec 30

  31. Diann Nickelsburg
    Posted December 7, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

    Recently the samurai sudoku puzzles in the Washington Post have been mostly 2’s, sometimes 3’s, and occasionally a 1. We haven’t had a 4 in a long time. Please do a better job of printing puzzles of a variety of difficulty levels.
    Suggestion: 2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-3-2-1.

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