Sudoku solution – Los Angeles Times 19 July 2026 Expert level sudoku

[00:00:03][music] [music] Hello fellow Sudokans. Welcome to Zen in the Art of the Guardian Sodoku Puzzle.

[00:00:13]It's Sunday the 19th of July 2026. I hope you are keeping well, enjoying life, having fun, and having a great weekend. It's early evening here in Bangkok. I'm going to be playing the Los Angeles Times expert level puzzle for you in a moment. Uh what's going on in the world? some good news. Uh the uh Vile Brothers, that's not their name, the Vile, but they should be called the Vile Brothers. That would be a good name for them. They're called the Tate Brothers have been arrested in Miami after arriving, no doubt, from Romania, where they have been living for some time, and are due to be extradited back to the UK on rape and sexual assault charges, amongst others. Uh that's the good news. Uh the unknown news I think we have to consider is whether or not Trump will try to interfere and stop the extradition because birds of a feather well we know what we say about we know what they say about birds of a feather and if anybody could be described as being of a similar ilk to the tape brothers. I think it has to be the orange one.

[00:01:19][snorts] Anyway, let's wait and see if they do get extradited or not, or if somehow or another some uh miracle saves them.

[00:01:29]Uh, let's wait and see. Let's get on with the game of Sudoku while we're waiting, shall we? Because it might take a long time. Hopefully, this game won't be that long, though. Got fours blocking down, fours blocking up. We're going to get ourselves a four in this square here, and that will give me fours down there.

[00:02:20]We have three and nine blocking across here. We have three and nine blocking up there. So, we should have a pair of three and nine in those squares there.

[00:02:27]And I can see the three blocking that square. So, that would be our three.

[00:02:30]That would be our nine. [clears throat] Nine blocking like this.

[00:02:57]We have sixes blocking like this.

[00:03:07]I think we have 2579 in those squares.

[00:03:12]And 27 Oh, no, it's not. Sorry, it's 2578. Sorry about that.

[00:03:17]Okay. So, we get eights there and there.

[00:03:21][clears throat] Seem to be losing my voice.

[00:03:32]Twos there and there.

[00:03:51][snorts] Okay, three is blocking down here.

[00:04:50]Okay, digit three is finished.

[00:05:07]Two blocking like this. So, two in one of those squares blocking up means that's a two.

[00:06:16]Four blocking across there. That puts four in that square.

[00:06:30]Four blocking like this puts four in one of those squares. blocking up. Four across. Four across there.

[00:06:43]Oh, do we not have any fives?

[00:06:47]Oh. Oh, okay. I've just noticed there are no fives on the board.

[00:06:52]Uh, we've got a pair of fives here. This is one and five.

[00:07:00]We got five somewhere along there. Five.

[00:07:04]7 9.

[00:07:07]So we've got a pair of fives up there as well.

[00:07:11]Actually, five, seven, n. So that's five and seven. That's a pair of five and seven. And this is one and eight, which makes sense, doesn't it?

[00:07:26]And we got seven blocking those squares.

[00:07:28]So that's our seven up there. So that's our five. That's our seven there.

[00:08:15]We another five now.

[00:08:59]Okay, we have eights in those squares and we have nines in those nine. So eight and nine blocking down there.

[00:09:11]Eight and nine blocking down there.

[00:09:13]Eight and nine blocking down there.

[00:09:14]That's a pair of eight and nine.

[00:09:18]So we know this is one and five already.

[00:09:21]This is 8 n. So this is four and six I think. So does that do anything?

[00:09:30]Six.

[00:09:33]Sixes.

[00:09:43]Uh yeah, it means that six is in this square here.

[00:09:49]Uh because we've got six blocking that square and that square. And we already know that this is eight and nine. So now we've got one five in those squares, which makes sense. That's one five.

[00:10:01][clears throat] Eight blocking across here. Eight blocking down there. There's the eight.

[00:11:48]We know this is one and five. So that must be a six.

[00:11:56]Six blocking like this.

[00:12:00]Uh this was 89. This was five. This is a four.

[00:13:18]Somewhere we've got to get a break in this 15. We got 155.

[00:13:23][sighs] Lots of5s.

[00:13:34]I'm just going to point them out to you.

[00:13:36]We got one five in all of these squares here.

[00:14:19]And there's a twist in the end here. Oh, no, there is. I hate blocking up here. I was about to say there's a twist at the end here stopping me from going forward, but there isn't. It's just my own lack of uh um observation. And this is one 67.

[00:14:37]Still can't get it.

[00:15:07]There could still be a twist in it. I think there is.

[00:15:19]Uh, are we looking for 167 in this row?

[00:15:21]I think we might be. Okay. Yeah, 167.

[00:15:25]So, 67 there. That's a one. Thank goodness we found something.

[00:15:37]That's the eight. That's the nine.

[00:15:54]So finally we can get our ones and fives, right? Five blocks here. That means that's a five. That's a one.

[00:16:01]That's a five. That's a one. That's a one. That's a five. That's a one. That's a five there.

[00:16:11]Over here. We're looking for seven, I think. And we need seven blocking across there. Seven in that square. That's uh six.

[00:16:20]Six blocking across. Six there. And one to finish. That's our Los Angeles Times expert level puzzle over and done for Sunday. Thanks for joining me this weekend. Hope you continue to enjoy what's left of it for you. Take care.

[00:16:34]Bye-bye.