The Miracle Sudoku Cave

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** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Not the busiest grid tonight from Dorlir and his latest sudoku: Parity Cave! It really is astonishing that this solves uniquely with a single given 3 and a couple of red lines and yet...

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Shade some cells such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected, and all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected (a 2x2 area MAY be fully shaded or unshaded). For each N, row N and box N both have exactly N shaded cells, which contain exactly the digits from 1 to N. Adjacent cells on the red line have different parities i.e. one digit is odd and the other digit is even.

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle Intro
1:10 PhD Analysis On Logic Masters!!
3:42 Chants of Sennaar
4:02 Kickstarter news: Phistomefel
4:15 Patreon Bonuses
4:56 Happy Birthdays & 45th Anniversary
7:12 Rules
10:17 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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