Greenwood Games: Wordoku Puzzle
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The Greenwood Games Worduko is one of 3 puzzles in the Greenwood Games playbook. If you're playing today (Saturday July 25), your clues are posted in the windows of the locations listed on page 2 of your playbook. If you're solving this after the fact, the full letter set is listed below.
How to play
Wordoku is like sudoku, but different! Instead of numbers, this grid uses letters. Nine of them, each one appearing exactly once in every row, every column, and every 3×3 box. No repeats, no exceptions. That's the only rule.
The letters in alphabetical order are:
B E G H I N O R S
Some letters are already placed to get you started and you will find more letters at the locations listed below. Your job is to figure out where the rest go. Once your grid is complete, look for the hidden word in the 5th row!
Starting Puzzle
Locations:
Gorgeous George
Fortuna
Yanni's
Rub-A-Dub Dog
Puzzle with all clues filled in
Solution
Hint #1: Column 1
The first column is missing 4 letters: G I R S
R cannot be in rows 6,7 or 9 because those 3x3 grids already have an R. That means R must be in row 3.
S cannot be in row 6 or 7 because there is already an S in those rows. That leaves only row 9.
We do not have enough information yet to place G or I BUT...
If we look at the the bottom 3x3 grid we see it is missing G I H
The only place the I can fit is in column 1, row 7
With I filled in, we can now complete column 1 and put G in the remaining open space in row 6. Column 1 is complete!
Hint #2: Row 7 & the bottom 3x3 grid
Row 7 is missing G H N
The only valid placement for H is in column 3 (there are already H's occupying columns 8 & 9).
G must be in column 9 (there is already a G in column 8)
N must be in column 8
With those letters in place, we see there is only 1 missing letter in the bottom 3x3 grid: G goes in column 3, row 9
Hint #3: Column 3
Column 3 is missing E N R
The only valid placement for E is row 3
The only valid placement for N is row 1
That leaves R in row 4
Hint #4: Top 3x3 Grid & Column 2
The top 3x3 grid is missing H and I
The only valid placement for H is row 2
That puts I in row 3
Looking at the rest of column 2 we are missing O and S
S can only be in row 4
O can only be in row 6
