This week is our first “Patron’s Week”, with five puzzles made for our Super Grandmasters, and one puzzle written by one of our Super Grandmasters. As our authors pulled out all the stops for our patrons, the difficulty for this week is higher than usual.

Monday: Star Battle by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Tapa (Borders) by Serkan Yürekli
Wednesday: Slitherlink (Liar) by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: Nurikabe by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Easy as Signpost LITS by Chris Green
Saturday: Killer Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Nurikabe from Prasanna Seshadri, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

Last week’s collection of puzzles from Grant Fikes can be found in this PDF.

We’ll be back with a special “patrons week” of puzzles on 4/4.

Last week’s guest week of puzzles (as well as Prasanna’s earlier birthday puzzle) can be found in this PDF.

Next week we will have a trio of puzzle styles from Grant Fikes:

Monday: TomTom
Tuesday: TomTom
Wednesday: Ripple Effect
Thursday: Ripple Effect
Friday: Pentominous
Saturday: Pentominous

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Fillomino from Grant Fikes, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Thursday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

[Note: there will be no puzzles in the week after this one.]

We get lots of great submissions to GMPuzzles, most often on the hard end of the spectrum. This week will feature 6 different guest contributors with some unique and challenging puzzles (about 3 “Wednesdays” and about 3 “Saturdays” in difficulty):

Monday: Nurikabe by Swaroop Guggilam
Tuesday: Cave by Bryce Herdt
Wednesday: Tapa (Windows) by Jack Lance
Thursday: Thermo-Sudoku (Missing Bulbs) by Hans van Stippent
Friday: Fillomino by Carl Worth
Saturday: Slitherlink by Walker Anderson

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Pentominous from Grant Fikes, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

Last week’s Sudoku mix can be found in this PDF.

Next week will not have any regular puzzles, but check back in the middle of the week for a large bonus puzzle that will keep you busy! Can’t wait for the bonus? Become a supporter of the site and you’ll receive every week of puzzles early as well as other rewards. Click here for more info.

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

Theme: GP = Grandmaster Puzzles

Author/Opus: This is the 236th 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.)

Answer String: Enter the 6th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 7th row from left to right.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:45, Master = 7:00, Expert = 14:00

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.

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or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between Sudoku = big digits and Number candidate = small entries in the corners of cells.)

Theme: Tootsie Roll

Author/Opus: This is the 235th puzzle from Thomas Snyder aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Tight Fit Sudoku rules. Remember, the smaller number goes above the larger number in all slashed cells. The range of this puzzle is 1-9.

Answer String: Enter the 4th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 6th row from left to right. (Note: for the tight fit cells, enter the top before the bottom as would be normal for the read order.)

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:30, Master = 5:45, Expert = 11:30

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for other Tight Fit Sudoku puzzles on this website. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Tight Fit Sudoku to get started on. More Tight Fit Sudoku can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli and in The Art of Sudoku 2.

Last week’s “Windows” variety mix from Prasanna Seshadri can be found in this PDF.

For the last 18 months, GMPuzzles contributors have been providing sudoku variations to the magazines Sudoku Spectacular and Will Shortz’s Sudoku. Some of the submissions are too hard (or too unique) for those publications, and I keep those submissions for our web site. We will have another collection of these “extra” sudoku puzzles next week, specifically:

Monday: Isodoku by Serkan Yürekli
Tuesday: Tight Fit Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
Wednesday: Consecutive Pairs Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
Thursday: Thermo-Sudoku by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Even/Odd Sudoku by Swaroop Guggilam
Saturday: Arrow Sudoku by Rajesh Kumar

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Arrow Sudoku from Prasanna Seshadri, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

Last week’s variety mix can be found in this PDF.

Next week will feature a set of six different puzzles from Prasanna Seshadri that share a common new rule:

The new “windows” rule is a connection between different sections of the grid that need to have an opposite use of the cells. The specific puzzles are:
Monday: Nurikabe
Tuesday: Tapa-Like Loop
Wednesday: Cave
Thursday: Kurotto
Friday: Masyu
Saturday: Tapa

Our supporters will also be receiving a challenging 13×13 LITS puzzle from Prasanna Seshadri, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Thursday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

Next week will feature a variety mix from many of our puzzlemasters:

Monday: Yajilin by Prasanna Seshadri
Tuesday: Slitherlink by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Cave by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: LITS^2 by Murat Can Tonta
Friday: Statue Park by Grant Fikes
Saturday: Double Kakuro by Serkan Yürekli

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus 18×10 Fillomino puzzle from Grant Fikes, and access to puzzle solutions and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.