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Theme: Parquet

Author/Opus: This is the 362nd puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a double set of tetrominoes (Note: as usual, all pieces can be rotated and/or reflected).

Difficulty: 2.5 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:45, Master = 2:15, Expert = 4:30

Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.

Note: Follow this link for other Statue Park Puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.

Our most recent week of Skyscrapers can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have a solving video for two of this week’s puzzles starting with the Thursday Skyscrapers from Ashish Kumar:

as well as the difficult Friday Skyscrapers from Salih Alan:

This upcoming week will feature Statue Park puzzles.

Our most recent mix of Sudoku puzzles and variations can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have a solving video for two of this week’s puzzles to highlight some of the elegant steps the designers put in, including the Even/Odd Sudoku by Rishi Puri:

as well as the classic Sudoku by Swaroop Guggilam.

This upcoming week will feature Skyscrapers puzzles.

PDF

or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)

Theme: Big X

Author/Opus: This is the 361st puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Consecutive Pairs Sudoku rules. (If a gray circle is given between two adjacent cells, then the two numbers in those cells must be consecutive. Note not all gray circles are given; adjacent cells without a circle may contain either consecutive numbers or nonconsecutive numbers.)

Difficulty: 2.5 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:20, Master = 3:30, Expert = 7:00

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles on this website. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Consecutive Pairs Sudoku to get started on. More Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles can be found in The Art of Sudoku 2 and in Masterpiece Sudoku Mix 6: Consecutive Pairs Sudoku.

Our most recent mix of variety puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have added a solving video for the Hot/Cold Thermo-Sudoku from Bryce Herdt:

And from our solving video archives, we’ve added a link to a great Fillomino (Cipher) by Palmer Mebane that is a puzzle you should check out if you missed it in 2014:

This upcoming week will feature a classic Sudoku and five Sudoku variations.

Our most recent week of Snake puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have added a solving video for the hard Snake (Cipher) from Serkan Yürekli:

And from our archives we’ve added a link to an old Snake Egg puzzle from Murat Can Tonta and this solving video to cover some general snake approaches that help with that Snake variation:

This upcoming week will feature a variety mix of puzzles from six different genres; we have a lot of guest authors including some new authors that will be featured this week.

Our most recent week of Kurotto puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts. If you enjoyed this Kurotto week, we will have a collection of Kurotto puzzles from Prasanna Seshadri released as an e-book later this year.

We have created a general Kurotto solving video with tips for this style from Thursday’s puzzle by Prasanna:

We also have a video for the challenging Kurotto (Skyscrapers) variation, also by Prasanna:

This upcoming week will feature Snake puzzles.

Note: We sill have issues with the solving applet and logins; this seems to be tied to some new security updates on web browsers and may be difficult to fix but we will keep you updated.

Our most recent week of Skyscrapers puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have two solving videos for this week. The first introduces a generally useful way to look at 2 clues in a skyscrapers puzzle based on the Tuesday puzzle. This tip will be reviewed (alongside a few others) in the video for the Saturday puzzle.

This upcoming week will feature Kurotto puzzles.

Note: We have received multiple reports of login issues with the solving applet; this seems to be tied to some new security updates on web browsers and may be difficult to fix but we will keep you updated.

Our most recent variety mix week can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

We have two solving videos for this week. First is some guidance for the Graffiti Snake from Prasanna on Thursday:

We also have another Star Battle video for the Saturday puzzle from Ashish:

This upcoming week will feature Skyscrapers puzzles.

Our most recent week of Araf puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.

As Araf is a less familiar style (and sometimes seems to benefit from “intuition” even though all of these puzzles can be done with full logical), we have solution videos done in ink for the whole week of Araf puzzles starting with the basics of Araf in the Monday and Tuesday puzzles:

Some harder logical tricks are revealed in the Wednesday and Thursday puzzles:

And here are solving paths for the Friday and Saturday puzzles:

This upcoming week will feature a variety mix of puzzles across our six genres.