Emoji Sudoku

Rules

The same puzzle, wearing different clothes. Nine fruits stand in for 1–9; the logic is identical, but nothing in your head is already trained on the symbols, so beginners stop "seeing numbers" and start seeing constraints.

• Each row, column and box contains each of the nine fruits exactly once.
• Every digit rule applies unchanged — the symbols are only labels.
• Apple behaves exactly like a 1, and coconut exactly like a 9.
• If you get stuck, translate the fruit back to digits in your head and solve it there.

Good to know

Ordinary sudoku rules still apply underneath the variant: every row, column and 3×3 box holds 1–9 exactly once. The extra rule sits on top and is usually what breaks the puzzle open.

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