Schedule for Next Week
All the puzzles from last week’s Cave collection have been grouped in this PDF.
Next week will be another “variety” week with a mix of styles. The week ended up with a lot of “medium” puzzles so watch out for some tougher puzzles at the start of the week than usual. Next week will feature the following puzzle types (highlight to view):
Monday: Nanro by Grant Fikes
Tuesday: LITS by Palmer Mebane
Wednesday: Masyu by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: Statue Park by Grant Fikes
Friday: Nonconsecutive Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
Saturday: Araf by Serkan Yürekli
If you enjoy our puzzles, please consider becoming a patron of GMPuzzles. Next weekend will be the first time rewards are given out including a 64×50 Slitherlink puzzle and other bonus puzzles. See the top of the sidebar for more info.
Finally I see a sudoku in the list.The past 3 days had some really difficult cave puzzles starting with the cave (product) by prasanna seshadri .I am still battling with these 3 puzzles trying to figure out the solution.
When is the first chapters of book released? Next week I presume?
Because this is the first time we will be getting payments through Patreon, and also sending content to patrons through those email lists, my intention is to take a little more time before releasing all the rewards in case some problems are run into. The current plan is to try to send “early” puzzles and solutions and the giant puzzle out next week. The Tapa + Nurikabe puzzle pack would follow the subsequent weekend if everything looks alright.
Any tips on “araf”? I found a few examples via Google, but couldn’t see an obvious strategy.
Maybe best to put this question on the puzzle itself once it gets released. Most Araf puzzles use the fact consecutive numbers cannot be part of the same group (area must sit strictly between) to force certain connections. Also, isolated numbers might not have too many places to pair. That all cells get used can be important in your thinking too.