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.

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.

Last week’s LITS/Nanro variant mix can be found in this PDF.

As we mentioned at the start of the month, we are aiming to publish puzzles 3 out of every 4 weeks this year; after three straight weeks with puzzles, we will be off next week. We’ll be back on 2/8 with a variety mix. We’ll also finally restart our site rewards. If you would like to become a supporter of the site, and get rewards including bonus puzzles, solution walkthroughs, and even e-books, please click here for more info.

Last week’s Snake puzzle mix from Serkan Yürekli can be found in this PDF.

Next week will feature two similar variations of shading puzzles, independently created by Chris Green and Prasanna Seshadri. The difficulty may be more variable than usual, but we think you’ll find the LITS and Nanro variations to be very fun.

Finally, starting with our next puzzle release (in two weeks), we will be restarting our site rewards. If you would like to become a supporter of the site, and get rewards including bonus puzzles, solution walkthroughs, and even e-books, click here for more info.