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MINI SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that every row, coloumn, diagonal and 3x2 box contain the numbers 1 to 6.

SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that every row, coloumn, diagonal and 3x3 box contain the numbers 1 to 9.

EASIER HARDER

1. The easier 4x4 grid uses the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 once in each column and row. The harder 6x6 grid uses the numbers 1 to 6.Complete the grid so that every row and column includes the numbers, 1-4 for the easier puzzle and 1-6 for the harder one. 2. The digits within each heavily outlined box, called a cage, will produce the target number using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, as indicated by the operation in the upper left-hand corner. 3. The order placement is flexible, so long as numbers in each cage can use the indicated operation to reach the target number. 4. Grids with just one square are freebees. Just write the number in the left hand corner in the box.

RIDDLE

What do the letter "t" and an island have in common?

Down

1. Action of an o'opu hue 2. Eh [blank] 3. Can't read this paper without it 4. [Blank] ka oi 5. John Cruz's grandma likes it real sour 8. Ancestor-honoring festival 9. Tournament at Kapalua 10. Arrives in the fall, leaves in the spring 13. Ocean activity 15. Lei, by another name 16. Derived from 'uki-'uki berries, for example 18. Cook-given name in 1778 19. Sprout, in Hawaiian 21. Former Speaker of the House, Maui sponge sender 23. Voiced a demigod 24. House of the [blank] homophone 25. The way to Hana 31. Ask First Hawaiian or your rich uncle for one 32. Eighth Governor of Hawai'i, post-statehood 33. Native flowering tree 35. Pueo, endemic 37. To slouch or pull away in anger, in Hawaiian 38. Endemic yellow-faced, for example 40. Eddie would [blank] 42. To become light, in Hawaiian

Across

2. Missionary, plantation baron, high school 6. Misty rain, in Hawaiian 7. Panaewa Rainforest [blank] and Gardens, in Hilo 11. Hawai'i has a [blank) cameral legislature 12. Lau wiliwili-nukunuku-'i'oi, for example 14. Kahului call letters 17. Monachus schauinslandi, scientifically speaking (and leave them alone!) 18. Ill-fated vessel 20. Part-time Maui resident; Amazon [blank] 22. Hawai'i state bird 24. Phillie, St. Anthony grad 26. Happened against Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893 27. You, in Hawaiian 28. Hawai'i's largest is at the Ka Loko Reservoir 29. Underground oven, in Hawaiian 30. Gun group, local HRA 31. Small, in Hawaiian 34. "Pearly Shells" singer 36. Power broker 39. 1.3 million, approximately, for Maui Nui 41. Unsalted water, in Hawaiian 43. Slipper-busting thorns 44. [Blank] kine grinds 45. Mahalo nui [blank]

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