This would be the last puzzle for year 2014. I sincerely say "THANKS" to all of you who have supported me throughout the year solving my puzzles, testing it, encouraging me to create more. I hope you continue your support for my blog in coming years. 

With special day, I create a special puzzle for you all and wish you to have a Great Year ahead in 2015. I wish you in my style and it would be a Sudoku to Solve.

Creating a Alphabet Sudoku for first time, Hope you will like it and Enjoy it :)

I made this effort in the last 1 hr to go. Thanks to Prasanna for testing it in last minutes.

Competition Page: Click here

Instruction Booklet: Click here

I am also one of the co-author for this Marathon. At the end of contest it will be revealed who created which puzzle. But till then have fun. Contest is open for 10 days.

Good Luck !!! :)

Competition Page  : Click here

Instruction Booklet : Click here

Although you can go out in the internet world and get as many Sudokus as you can but i am also sharing some of the links for your practice. Also sharing some of the tricks to tackle some of types appearing in this test.

1) The foremost and biggest tip is don't forget what is the name of this round. Pun not intended.

2) Average Sudoku - Remember since it's average and only integers are allowed, numbers on both side of line will be of same type. i.e. Either both numbers will be even or both will be odd.

3) Kropki Sudoku - Black dot only possible pairs are 1-2,2-4,4-8,3-6. White dot pairs are 1-2,2-3,3-4,4-5,5-6,6-7,7-8,8-9. If you have series of 2 black dots then only possible sets are 1-2-4 and 2-4-8. And the only 3 consecutive black dot series is 1-2-4-8. Remember order of these sets can be either way. Also 1-2 can contain either dot (just a reminder). Do not restrict to this as for e.g. if dots series are in L shaped then it can have repeated digits as well like 4-2-4 etc.

First of all, thank you to all for your feedback and support. It will surely help in future creations. As now the marathon is over, i would like to discuss the tricks behind the solution. The final puzzle selected for Marathon was 2nd version of what i created first. The first version was very tough and so had to modify it. I will upload that version soon after it's tested. But for right now let's move on to the solving steps. Apologies for any grammatical mistakes or bad image quality. But i have tried to keep it simple and good as far as i can.

Firstly here is the actual puzzle,

Details of which can be found here.