Sudoku

Where is Yoshimi when she’s needed most? The giant Pink Robot is right there, and it doesn’t look very friendly. Sure, its non-Flaming Lips might look like it’s smiling, but it’s just built that way.

It’s a Full House of Zs. It turns out there are a few different ways to arrange the things, and rotating a Z 180º gives you… a Z.

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.

It’s the Goldilocks of Min/Max puzzles: equal parts hot and cold, high and low, maximum and minimum, for a result that is completely and thoroughly medium.

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.

I know I’ve named a puzzle after The Killers’ best album, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also appreciate their more-popular hits. I celebrate their entire catalog!

This is the third in a series of three puzzles which get progressively more difficult. Finish the first puzzle for a link to the second puzzle, and finish that one for a link to this one. Which you already have, clearly.

This is the second in a series of three puzzles which get progressively more difficult. Finish the puzzle for a link to the third. Or wait, and I’ll post it here.

This is the first of a series of three puzzles which get progressively more difficult. Finish the first for a link to the second, and finish the second for a link to the third. Or wait, and I’ll post them here.

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.