Schedule for Next Week
The last week of WPC practice puzzles can be found in this PDF. If you haven’t checked out our recently expanded e-book store, now is a great time to do so.
The next week is another “Patrons week”, with puzzles requested by our top patrons.
Monday: Numberlink by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Yajisan Kazusan by Murat Can Tonta
Wednesday: Tapa (Borders) by Murat Can Tonta
Thursday: Crosslink by Serkan Yürekli
Friday: Kakuro (Irregular) by Grant Fikes
Saturday: Letter Pairs by Serkan Yürekli
Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Cave by Prasanna Seshadri, access to puzzle solutions, and a PDF walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. Our top patrons recently received a Giant Variant Samurai Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.
Special Note: For the last week of the year, we will be introducing a new contributing puzzlemaster. Who will it be?
My compliments to Serkan. The Samurai Sudoku is a true beast. Still working on it (and sadly discovered an error in my work the other day – just have to see if I can track it down!).
I just made it through this 13-grid “Samurai Samurai”, and must compliment it here. It boggles the mind how this can be constructed to yield steady progress for several hours’ time and still yearn for more work until every cell is filled. Amazing deductions, and even when I broke the grid I could recover the work by considering what I was sure of in neighboring grids, and each time a more careful solve yielded the correct unbroken answer. Amazing set of deductions, for instance constraining a digit to r15c22-24 (which became c22). The sort of solving that makes me mix up day and night. Congratulations Serkan.
Now everybody get patronage accounts please!