Odd & Even

Some days you’re a three-cell maximum cage, and some days you’re a three-cell minimum cage. Most days you’re not quite the highest or lowest, but still pretty high or low.

I know all the digits are facing the same direction, but just imagine that the puzzle rotates so the 75 is read right-to-left and the 74 is read bottom-to-top. Not at all related to Circuit, despite superficial similarities.

Modern integrated circuits are mass-produced and extremely tiny, but I remember when even products shipped by manufacturers like Sony had internal circuits soldered together, and chips glued glued in place.

It looked slightly more like three people crawling in an earlier version of this puzzle, but I’m keeping the name.

The game of Morra (aka Odds and Evens) is pure luck. Not this puzzle!

It’s a computer chip. Or a mockup of a computer chip. Transistors, traces, and so on.

Some people seem fixated on Inuit people having many words for snow, but English does too! From blizzard to whiteout, with flurries, graupel, and drifts, we have so many words. The one this puzzle’s palindrome lines make me think of is sleet.

I regularly publish 9x9 Sudoku puzzles filled with 3x3 blocks of cells, but this one isn’t regular at all. It’s an Anti-Knight Irregular Sudoku!