diff --git a/games/gnome-sudoku/Makefile b/games/gnome-sudoku/Makefile
index a0e92645487e..4700a18d4d55 100644
--- a/games/gnome-sudoku/Makefile
+++ b/games/gnome-sudoku/Makefile
@@ -1,32 +1,35 @@
 # Created by: FreeBSD GNOME Team <gnome@freebsd.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	gnome-sudoku
 PORTVERSION=	40.2
 CATEGORIES=	games gnome
 MASTER_SITES=	GNOME/sources/${PORTNAME}/${PORTVERSION:C/^([0-9]+)\..*/\1/}
 DIST_SUBDIR=	gnome
 
+PATCH_SITES=	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/${PORTNAME}/-/commit/
+PATCHFILES+=	7c9935a02b48.patch:-p1 # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sudoku/-/merge_requests/39
+
 MAINTAINER=	gnome@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Sudoku game for gnome
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	itstool:textproc/itstool \
 		appstream-util:devel/appstream-glib \
 		vala:lang/vala
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgee-0.8.so:devel/libgee \
 		libqqwing.so:games/qqwing \
 		libjson-glib-1.0.so:devel/json-glib
 
 PORTSCOUT=	limitw:1,even
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang gettext gmake gnome meson \
 		python:3.7+ pkgconfig tar:xz
 USE_GNOME=	cairo gtk30
 
 BINARY_ALIAS=	python3=${PYTHON_CMD}
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	org.gnome.Sudoku.gschema.xml
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/gnome-sudoku/distinfo b/games/gnome-sudoku/distinfo
index 20cf41c69e05..c4ab81bbc554 100644
--- a/games/gnome-sudoku/distinfo
+++ b/games/gnome-sudoku/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 TIMESTAMP = 1627967549
 SHA256 (gnome/gnome-sudoku-40.2.tar.xz) = 36120531e3c7139581ea3800fbfe3c2b31694c440145ecc897ac34e562d754a3
 SIZE (gnome/gnome-sudoku-40.2.tar.xz) = 358260
+SHA256 (gnome/7c9935a02b48.patch) = ec2699213543e125949a09922d87376cf7ab265f3ae9a9ae7149fdbb725a064e
+SIZE (gnome/7c9935a02b48.patch) = 1260