SudokuCon 2025 tickets are on sale

We were happy to see so many of you at SudokuCon's second annual 24-hour livestream last week. Particular thanks to those who made contributions and especially to those who bought tickets.

Tickets are still available at the early-bird price ($100) until Sunday 5 January 2025. After that the price will go up, though the price for students and un-waged community members will remain $10 thanks to a series of generous donations. Buy your ticket here: https://sudokucon.com/tickets

Here's a quick overview of the conference schedule:

• casual social meet-up Thursday 3 April, 5:00 - 7:00, with dinner on your own afterwards

• puzzle sessions from 9:30 to 5:15 on Friday and Saturday; lunch for each day is included in your registration. Dinner Friday is on your own; for Saturday we hope to gather conference attendees for a communal meal (where we'd each pay for our own food).

• puzzle sessions from 9:30 to about 1:00 on Sunday; lunch on your own after that. Sunday's sessions will be on the theoretical and technical side of sudoku.

And here are the confirmed sessions so far, as announced at the live stream:

• How to Solve Sudoku Like a World Champion, with Thomas Snyder, founder of Grandmaster Puzzles and multiple-time World Sudoku Championship winner

• Shikaku Workshop with Yoshi Anpuku, president of Nikoli

• Real-Life Puzzle Streaming with puzzle streamers and YouTubers Lucian, ChattyKathy, and Nell Gwyn

• Creating Your Own Sudoku Variant Workshop with Glum Hippo

• Snackdoku Setting Party with FullDeck, Missingafewcards, Scojo, and friends from the Skunkworks team

• Just One Digit solving contest, hosted by Clover and Thomas Snyder

• One Puzzle, 81 Solvers, hosted by Gliperal

• Fractional Sudoku and Other Technical Developments with Philip Newman and Mitchell Lee (Sunday)

• Puzzle Setting and Solving Tools Panel with Swaroop, Rangsk, Sirxemic, HalfBakedLunatic, and Sven Neumann (Sunday)

Finally, if you missed the livestream and want to catch up, tidily edited videos will appear on our YouTube channel within the next couple of weeks.

As always, you can reach us at [email protected], or join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/WGqaazd7Yb 

We look forward to meeting many of you in April, or at SudokuCon 2026 or beyond!

—ProfMeow, for the SudokuCon planning group