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Again, I haven’t had time to try this for myself, but it looks fun! Harry

Since I seem to be in the mood for merging puzzles of the same type at the moment, here is another puzzle where you have to solve several things at once! This one comes with a mild warning:

WARNING: Hard! (probably)

Everything OK? Good. Have fun! [This introduction is not a puzzle.]

Puzzle Hunt, Puzzle 3: Broken Bits (4,4,8)
MD5: 5e32133d076828c733c6baeb283e63cf

[PUZZLE]

A good lesson for you folks out there – never leave two unsolved sudokus together unattended. You never know what will happen if they get mixed up…

(Hint: To get the answer, you might want a slanted look at things!)

Grids:

????..KD
????….
????.D.U
????O.G.
????????
????????
U..O????
..E.????

????.VUR
????L…
????????
????????
.E.O????
U…????
.RO.????
..NV????

[N.B. Both grids are standard 8×8 sudoku grids, consisting of eight blocks that are all 4 columns wide by 2 rows high. ‘.’ represents a square that is known to be blank at the start of the puzzle, and ‘?’ represents an unknown square that may or may not be blank at the start of the puzzle. This note is not a puzzle.]

Missing blocks:

DE.L ..VO .U.N O.UK .CL.
.GO. ENL. ..EL D… K..E

..DG …U .K.. .L.. ….
K..O OY.. LU.. OR.. ….

[N.B. The above list consists of ten blocks (arranged in two rows) that are all 4 columns wide by 2 rows high. If you cannot see the blocks clearly, try using a monospaced font (e.g. Courier New). ‘.’ represents a square that is known to be blank at the start of the puzzle. This note is not a puzzle.]