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Picdoku: Queer Symbolism

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Mar 14, 2023
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Sally lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets and a book about haunted prisons. She never intended for any of this to happen.

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  • Caitlin
    March 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm

    32 minutes, 5 seconds. something about symbols makes my solving so much harder!

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  • Wren
    March 14, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    20 min, 25 sec! I love Sudoku-like puzzles that are visual! I used to have a game called Coloroku that was colored marbles on a wooded board rather than numbers and it was my favorite thing to take to a coffee shop 🤓

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  • Claire
    March 15, 2023 at 12:35 am

    This broke my brain even more than the pride flag one, but was oddly compelling

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  • kat
    March 15, 2023 at 11:37 am

    12 mins 3 secs… but I had to re-start three times. The symbols really are brain-bending!

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  • Kayla
    March 16, 2023 at 3:52 am

    17 minutes and 35 seconds, the symbols made it rough but very enjoyable. Thank you for the link to the article! I’ll have to look up what the ones not listed were.

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  • Izzy
    March 16, 2023 at 7:28 am

    19 minutes 32 seconds!

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  • Ann
    March 27, 2023 at 9:20 pm

    I started this a few days after it came out and have been slowly plugging away ever since. I’m normally ok at sudoku so I don’t know why it took so long! But it was a nice slow process, almost meditative to come back every day or two and keep trying until I solved it. Thanks as always, Sally

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