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Schedule for Next Week

The last week of puzzles from Grant Fikes can be found in this PDF.

This week, Prasanna Seshadri brings us some clever “transparent” puzzle variations from the 2016 Polish Puzzle Championship. Will you be able to see through the clues and get to the solutions?

Monday: Battleships (Minesweeper)
Tuesday: Pentopia
Wednesday: Easy as ABC
Thursday: Linesweeper
Friday: Yajilin
Saturday: Tapa

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

PS: Next weekend is the US round for the WPF Puzzle Grand Prix. It features a lot of puzzles from me and other GMPuzzles contributors. Please check it out. (Note: we will not have an official week of puzzles next week, but will post some highlights from the GP competition.)

Schedule for Next Week

Grant Fikes is back with a full week of puzzles (classics and variants) that we think you will enjoy. Specifically:


Monday: Yajilin
Tuesday: Fillomino
Wednesday: Sashikabe
Thursday: Cross the Streams (Windows)
Friday: Masyu
Saturday: Pentominous

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Cross the Streams from Grant, 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.

PS: Due to work finishing the US round for the WPF Puzzle Grand Prix, the next week of new puzzles will start on 5/9.

Schedule for Next Week

Last week’s set of Range puzzles from Serkan Yürekli can be found in this PDF.

There will be no new puzzles posted this week.

Schedule for Next Week

Last week’s “Patron’s Week” of puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This week comes from Serkan Yürekli with a collection of Range puzzles.

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Nanro from Murat Can Tonta, 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.

Schedule for Next Week

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.

Schedule for Next Week

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.

Schedule for Next Week

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.]

Schedule for Next Week

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.

Schedule for Next Week

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.

Schedule for Next Week

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.