There’s a given digit for you, and for you, and for you, and… that’s it! I’m all out of given digits. It should be obvious that the puzzle has the digits 2-9, and–oh! Right. Hmm, the puzzle has all the digits, 1-9, I’m just not sure where that other one went. It’s okay, the puzzle is fine. This is fine.

And the storybook comes to a close / Gone are the ribbons and bows // Things to remember, places to go / Pretty maids all in a row //

Can I interest you in a fine manufactured home? It’s so wide! Almost, but not quite, twice as wide as a single-wide. In fact, it’s 1.67 times as wide, and 1.33 times as tall as a normal 9x9 Sudoku.

Around this grid, we’ve embraced revolution, rejecting monarchy. No commonwealth, no unitary authority at all. So no digit repeats within a chess King’s move. Of course, normal Sudoku rules already eliminate repeated digits in orthogonally-adjacent cells, so really an Anti-King constraint only eliminates repeated digits in diagonal neighbors. Wacky kings!

Hither be a puzzle with Between Lines, nice long ones. Digits may run from one end to the other, and yet cannot escape, trapped between the circles at each end.

Three of these things belong together / three of these things are kind of the same // Can you guess which one of these doesn’t belong here? / Now it’s time to play our game // It’s time to play our game

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied / Illuminate the NOs on their Vacancy signs // If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks / Then I’ll follow you into the dark // - with much gratitude to Ben Gibbard

It’s less common in the world of Sudoku, but many pencil puzzles have a “2x2” rule, although most of those involve “shaded” and “unshaded” cells. We don’t do shading in Sudoku-land, so it’s Odds and Evens instead. You can shade or color it if you like, so long as you break up every 2x2 set of cells.

Ain’t that a renban line / for you and me // Ain’t that a renban line / something to see // Ain’t that a renban line / the puzzle is free // Little pink houses for you and me (with apologies to Mr. Mellencamp)

Crystalline shards and sharp angles, it’s like a Fortress of Solitude in this puzzle.