All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
Next week is a variety week with the following mix of puzzles (highlight to view):
Monday: Yajilin by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Fillomino by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Shape Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli
Thursday: Battleships by Thomas Snyder
Friday: Sum Skyscrapers by Grant Fikes
Saturday: Statue Park by Grant Fikes
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Tapa by Thomas Snyder.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
While I’ve been featuring a lot more puzzle types this year, I often get requests to go back to having more Sudoku. While my focus for many months has been organizing the 2014 Sudoku Grand Prix, now that that work is mainly done it seemed a good time to revisit the style here. So the deficit of that style won’t continue for much longer; we’ll have some classic puzzles, but not on consecutive days as that might be too many classics in a row. Even odd folks like us can appreciate a good puzzle where nothing is repeated, neighbors.
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Skyscrapers by Prasanna Seshadri.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
This next week is a standard set of six puzzles (highlight to view):
Monday: Masyu by Tom Collyer
Tuesday: Cave by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Araf by Hans van Stippent
Thursday: Nanro by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Basement Skyscraper Sudoku by Prasanna Seshadri
Saturday: Cross the Streams by Murat Can Tonta
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Fillomino by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
This next week is a standard set of six puzzles, all fairly easy, and all written by Thomas Snyder (highlight to view):
Actually, everything I just
said is a lie. This is not a
good week to be too trusting
as every puzzle is “lying” in one
way or another. Can you wrap your brain around
these tougher than usual challenges?
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a “Liar, Liar” Cave by Serkan Yürekli.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
This coming week on GMPuzzles will focus on Nurikabe with puzzles from Grant Fikes, Walker Anderson, Serkan Yürekli, Swaroop Guggilam, and Tapio Saarinen. The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters is also from that style, by Thomas Snyder.
The “Ask Dr. Sudoku” series is on indefinite hiatus. If you want to know how to solve our puzzles better, including tips on notations and good heuristics, we encourage you to become a supporter of the website. Since February 2014, we’ve been posting a written/video walkthrough of our puzzles to our high-level supporters.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
Next week is a variety week with the following mix of puzzles (highlight to view):
Monday: TomTom by Grant Fikes
Tuesday: Masyu by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
Thursday: Kurotto by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Star Battle by Thomas Snyder
Saturday: Araf by Serkan Yürekli
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Fillomino by Grant Fikes.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
Earlier this month the comedy Ghostbusters celebrated its 30th anniversary. This coming week on GMPuzzles will focus on a puzzle style whose name is based on a famous line from that film, with puzzles by Grant Fikes and Murat Can Tonta. The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will also be from that style. Do you know what puzzle we’re talking about?
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
We have now launched our e-book store. This is a secured, PayPal-based ordering system and right now contains the first 4 (of 5) parts of “The Art of Puzzles”. You can get an individual part of The Art of Puzzles for $4, or the entire collection for $16. If you start by buying individual parts, the cost to complete the collection will continue to decrease (-> $12 -> $8 -> $4) so you can choose to try a few before you buy them all. If you have a solving account for the website already, that should work as your log-in to get to the secure store page. Once you purchase an e-book you will be able to download it anytime in the future by logging in to this account. As this is a new feature for us, if you run into any problems please email us using the link at the bottom of the page. We’ll be announcing more titles and a release schedule soon.
Puzzle-wise, this week highlights two things: an author and a championship. We’ll be posting six puzzles from Bram de Laat, a talented puzzle solver and author from the Netherlands. His puzzles are “extras” from the Indian Puzzle Championship as Bram made two puzzles of each type to allow the organizers some choice. The “extras” are actually some of the better puzzles, but also harder which probably motivated the competition choice. So be prepared for a harder week than usual. We will also have some bonus posts which highlight other Indian Puzzle Championship puzzles from GMPuzzle authors.
The exact schedule is this (highlight to view):
Monday (AM): Battleships by Bram de Laat
Monday (PM): Star Battle variation by Prasanna Seshadri
Tuesday (AM): Slitherlink by Bram de Laat
Tuesday (PM): Cross the Streams by Grant Fikes
Wednesday (AM): Slitherlink (Toroidal) by Bram de Laat
Wednesday (PM): Pentominous by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday (AM): Araf by Bram de Laat
Thursday (PM): Word Nurikabe by Thomas Snyder
Friday (AM): Araf (Different Neighbors) by Bram de Laat
Friday (PM): TomTom by Grant Fikes
Saturday (AM): Battleships (Observers) by Bram de Laat
Saturday (PM): TomTom (Cipher) by Thomas Snyder
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Star Battle by Thomas Snyder.
All the puzzles from last week have been grouped in this PDF.
Soon we will be making some updates to the site including finally adding an e-book store. When we launch (tentatively this Friday), 4 e-books comprising 80% of “The Art of Puzzles” collection will be available. Within the month we expect to add the last part of “The Art of Puzzles” and also an electronic form of “The Art of Sudoku”. You can get an individual part of The Art of Puzzles for $4, or the entire collection for $16. If you start by buying individual parts, the cost to complete the collection will continue to decrease (-> $12 -> $8 -> $4) so you can choose to try a few before you buy them all.
In coming months, we will release e-books and sometimes print books for titles with LITS, Caves, and an easier puzzle collection from Grant Fikes that will be a good introduction to several of our puzzle styles.
This coming week is another variety week (highlight to view):
Monday: Slitherlink by Grant Fikes
Tuesday: Skyscrapers by Grant Fikes
Wednesday: Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta
Thursday: Cave by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Tapa (Transparent) by Prasanna Seshadri
Saturday: Thermo-Sudoku by Thomas Snyder
The bonus puzzle for our high-level supporters will be a Tapa (Transparent) by Prasanna Seshadri.