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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 94th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Add letters to some empty cells to make a snake that doesn’t touch itself, not even diagonally. The snake’s head and tail are indicated by circles. The snake is made out of spelled out numbers, and some letters are given that must be part of the snake. Each numbered cell indicates the total sum of the distinct words that touch that cell, including diagonally. Not all words need to be used, but no word is used more than once.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The answer to the example is “3,31”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:30, Master = 7:30, Expert = 14:00

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Theme: First Born Eggs

Author/Opus: This is the 93rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1 cell-wide path) in the grid whose head and tail are given by circled cells. The snake can touch itself diagonally, but cannot touch itself orthogonally or revisit any square. Besides the snake, the remaining cells must form exactly nine white areas, one of each size from 1 to 9. Numbers in the grid must be part of white areas of the indicated size.
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Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:15, Master = 6:00, Expert = 12:00

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Quadrilaterals

Author/Opus: This is the 92nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1-cell wide path) from one dot to the other by moving horizontally or vertically between adjacent squares. The snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. All highlighted regions must be visited by the snake, and may be re-entered. If two or more highlighted regions have the same shape and orientation, then how the path passes through those shapes must be identical.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each snake segment from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Use both digits for any two-digit number. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 91st puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1-cell wide path) out of pentominoes that doesn’t touch itself, not even diagonally. The head and tail of the snake are given by circles. Pentominoes can be rotated/reflected, and can be used more than once. The letters outside the grid represent the first pentomino visible in the corresponding direction.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The example has the answer “211,231”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:30, Master = 3:30, Expert = 7:00

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 90th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw one or more horizontal or vertical lines from each numbered cell to cover that number of empty cells. Lines cannot cross other lines or other numbered cells. The remaining empty cells are occupied by a snake (a 1-cell wide path) whose head and tail are given. The snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The example has the answer “2,3”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 3:00, Expert = 6:00

Solution: PDF

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Last week’s variety mix from Murat Can Tonta can be found in this PDF.

Next week will feature a Snake puzzle collection from Serkan Yürekli.

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Theme: Crown

Author/Opus: This is the 32nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.

Rules: Standard Cross the Streams rules.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from top to bottom for the marked columns, going in order from A to B to C to D and separating each entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:00, Master = 5:30, Expert = 11:00.

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 31st puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.

Rules: Standard Pentominous rules.

Answer String: Enter the letter associated with the pentomino occupying each cell in the marked rows from left to right and in the marked columns from top to bottom, separating the groups with a comma. Use CAPITAL LETTERS!

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:00, Master = 4:45, Expert = 9:30

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Logical? Did you notice anything interesting in the solution?

Author/Opus: This is the 30th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.

Rules: Divide the grid into regions by adding diagonals into empty cells. Two diagonals cannot cross in one cell, and there can be no loose ends. Each region must contain the numbers 1 to 4 exactly once (1 to 3 in the example).

Answer String: Using ‘-’ for an empty cell and ‘\’ and ‘/’ for the two diagonals, enter the contents of each cell in the marked rows from left to right. Separating each row’s entry with a comma. The example has the answer “-\/\-,-/-/-”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 3:15, Expert = 6:30

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Knight Steps

Author/Opus: This is the 29th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.

Rules: Standard Masyu rules.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of the horizontal loop segments from left to right in the marked rows, starting at the top. If the loop only has vertical segments in the marked row, enter 0. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:45, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30

Solution: PDF

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