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FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2018

Watching Too Much — Solved

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OK then, here’s the solution to this month’s puzzle:

We said that when you solve the sudoku, you can rearrange the nine distinct letters in it to spell a program that you may have used in a time of crisis. The solution is OVERWATCH, because as we all recall, in a time of global crisis an international task force of heroes banded together to restore peace to a war-torn world.

If you enjoyed this puzzle, you are sure to enjoy Erica Sadun’s book:

Numerical Brain Teasers

Cover from PragPub magazine, October 2018