The puzzles editor of the Washington Post is in big trouble after yesterday's Sudoku. Donald Trump has demanded his resignation, MAGA activists have been burning copies of the paper and ICE investigators are checking his family tree for non-American DNA.
The problems were caused because every row of the Sudoku contain the consecutive digits 8-6-4-7, which is taken to be an exhortation to kill the President.
The puzzles editor has defended his position. In a scary meeting with the right-wing press, he suggested that - because a Sudoku only uses the digits 1 to 9 - it was inevitable that this would eventually happen.
The editor gently hinted that some MAGA supporters might be overthinking things a bit, as the sequence 8647 could appear in many places – credit card numbers, licence plates, phone numbers, bank account details. It was important to remember that the sequence of digits was almost always NOT an exhortation to murder.
In unrelated incidents, the top line of yesterday’s cryptic crossword answers read LOSER and TRUMP, the first column read VOTE DEMOCRAT, and the word ladder puzzle challenged readers to change GOLD into SHIT by changing one letter at a time.
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