A Moth Has Chewed My Sudoku [Updated Version]

[The rules got muddled up in the first version of this video so we've uploaded a revised version. The algorithm tends to punish videos that we release outside of our normal schedule so we'd be grateful for all the "Likes" and kind comments you can give this one!]

*** TODAY'S PUZZLE ***
Michael Lefkowitz has done it again with a brilliant and witty new sudoku in which moths have chewed away bits of the grid. There's lots of fresh logic here and a moderate difficulty rating - do have a go!!

Play the puzzle at the link below:
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Rules:
Place one or more digits from 1-9 in every cell so that each digit appears exactly once in every row, column, and 3x3 box. All the digits in the cell(s) touching each V sum to 5. White dots always separate a pair of adjacent digits (but there can also be additional digits in the separated cells).

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
1:17 New crossword video
1:30 Revisiting yesterday's Jay Dyer sudoku
5:20 New Dungeons & Diagrams sudoku!!
7:36 Happy Birthdays
10:28 Rules
13:50 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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