Please come back later today for the first in our “Best of 2014” entries. Our supercomputers (read: Thomas, working with a spreadsheet and some graphs) are crunching the numbers as we speak to bring you this exciting summary of the last year at Grandmaster Puzzles.

All the Pentomino puzzles from last week can be found in this PDF.

Instead of new puzzles, this coming week will highlight our best rated puzzles of 2014. Have you liked what GMPuzzles has offered over 2014? How do you want to see our site grow over the next year?

All the variety puzzles from last week can be found in this PDF.

This next week will feature a set of Pentomino puzzles, specifically Pentominous and Pentopia puzzles.

The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be a Yajilin by Grant Fikes.

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.