All the variety puzzles from last week can be found in this PDF.
This next week will feature another variety mix. The puzzles will be:
Monday: Tapa by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Masyu by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Battleships by Thomas Snyder
Thursday: TomTom by Grant Fikes
Friday: Arrow Sudoku by Swaroop Guggilam
Saturday: Star Duel by Carl Worth
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Cross the Streams by Prasanna Seshadri.
All the Fillomino puzzles from last week can be found in this PDF.
This next week will feature a variety mix, all from Grant Fikes. Specifically, we will have:
Monday: Slitherlink
Tuesday: Cave
Wednesday: Round Trip
Thursday: Skyscrapers
Friday: Fillomino
Saturday: Cross the Streams (LITS)
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Nurikabe by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week’s variety mix can be found in this PDF.
This next week will feature a set of classic puzzles and variations on Fillomino. Puzzles will be from Hans van Stippent, Grant Fikes, Prasanna Seshadri, and Robert Vollmert.
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Fillomino by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week’s Letters and Numbers (Pentominous/Sudoku) collection can be found in this PDF.
This next week will feature a variety of styles from guest contributors. Specifically:
Monday: Nanro by Carl Worth
Tuesday: Round Trip by Hans van Stippent
Wednesday: Masyu by Murat Can Tonta
Thursday: Tapa by John Bulten
Friday: Cave by Murat Can Tonta
Saturday: Fractional Skyscrapers by Robert Vollmert
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Pentominous by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week’s Castle Wall collection can be found in this PDF.
We had 57 solvers for Dr. Sudoku’s 200th puzzle contest. Two random numbers were selected from 1-57 using random.org marking solvers 30 and 52 as the winners of a free puzzle book. Those lucky solvers are (30.) Projectyl and (52.) phlebowitsh.
For anyone who was stumped by the lack of rules for the TomTomTom, and didn’t catch on to the hint provided by the title, here are complete rules. The six 6×6 grids make up a Latin Cube where no digit repeats in any row or column within a grid, or within any cell in the same position across the grids (i.e., stack the grids on top of each other and no digit repeats within a position in that stack). While none of the starting grids have a unique solution without the Latin Cube constraint, with this constraint all five regular looking TomToms can now be uniquely solved. Use the remaining digits in each location to fill in the last grid. Assign number values to those cases keeping in mind operations when present and convert 1=A, 2=B, …, to read out the solution in left-to-right, top-to-bottom order.”
This next week will feature both letters and numbers. Specifically, a set of Pentominous puzzles by Grant Fikes and Sudoku puzzles by Thomas Snyder. The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Pentominous by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week’s LITS collection can be found in this PDF.
Entry into our 200th Puzzle Contest Spectacular is now closed and we will be determining the winners soon. Winners will be contacted by email and announced in this space next weekend.
This next week will be a set of Castle Wall puzzles, a style originally created by Palmer Mebane and where both Palmer and Prasanna have written good challenges. The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Castle Wall by Prasanna Seshadri.
All the puzzles from last week’s variety week can be found in this PDF.
There is still one week to enter my 200th Puzzle Contest Spectacular. Check it out here. Answers submitted before November 9th will be eligible to win one of my/Grandmaster’s books.
This next week will be a set of LITS puzzles including a variation suggested from one of our super grandmaster patrons, and a puzzle I wrote to honor another of our super grandmaster patrons. You can find more details about our website patronage on the left sidebar. The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Cross the Streams by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from our TomTom week can be found in this PDF. For those who want a chance to win one of our books, check out the contest tied to my 200th puzzle here. Answers submitted before November 9th will be eligible for one of two prizes.
This next week will be a variety mix from five of our puzzlemasters. Highlight below to see the schedule:
Monday: Masyu by Tom Collyer
Tuesday: Battleships by Thomas Snyder
Wednesday: Nanro by Grant Fikes
Thursday: Cross the Streams by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Thermo-Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
Saturday: Fillomino (Cipher) by Palmer Mebane
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Pentominous by Grant Fikes.
Note: This puzzle is a contest puzzle. All correctly submitted answers (in the applet below the puzzle) before November 9th will be entered into the contest drawing. Two solvers will each get a Grandmaster Puzzles/Thomas Snyder puzzle book of their choice.
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Theme: 200th Puzzle Contest Spectacular
Author/Opus: This is the 200th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: To be determined by solver. (Edit: the full rules are now available on this post.)
Answer String: Enter the final answer as a single string of twelve capital letters.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 20:00, Master = 35:00, Expert = 1:10:00
Solution: PDF
Note: Follow this link for classic TomTom puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest TomTom to get started on.
All the puzzles from the Golem Grad/Round Trip week can be found in this PDF.
Some of you have wondered, since my 199th submission several weeks ago, if I had any special plans for #200. Well, perhaps this week will reveal all? We have a set of TomTom puzzles and variations for you, including my long awaited 200th puzzle for this website.
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a TomTom by Grant Fikes.