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Sunday Update and Solutions

Our past Tight Fit and Consecutive Pairs Sudoku week is gathered in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. Both of these styles are part of our latest Masterpiece Sudoku Mix books. If you purchase these books together (or any two Masterpiece Sudoku Mix books with discount code MASTERPIECE), you’ll receive a 10% discount at checkout.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

The next week of puzzles will feature Araf puzzles.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our past Star Battle week is gathered in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More books containing Star Battle puzzles can be found here.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

The next week of puzzles will feature Tight Fit Sudoku and Consecutive Pairs Sudoku, both types in our latest Masterpiece Sudoku Mixes (see upcoming post for more details).

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our past variety mix week, with slightly easier than usual puzzles to pair with our “Starter Pack” series, has its puzzles gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. We’re putting the finishing touches on Starter Pack 1: Fillomino by Grant Fikes (including building very basic digital solving/Penpa option for the book) and will release that in next day.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

The next week of puzzles will feature Star Battle, one of our favorite puzzle styles, and will have five classic and one variation during the week.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our past week introducing Aqre puzzles as an “official” shading puzzle style on the site has its puzzles gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. Aqre puzzles are one of the genres in our e-book Shading Variety Collection by Prasanna Seshadri.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

In a few minutes we will also be releasing another Aqre puzzle as a Sunday Stumper.

The next week of puzzles will be an “easy” variety mix, with just easy-to-medium difficulty puzzles in six different styles. This week will also mark the release of our first “Starter Pack” book with a 30 puzzle Fillomino set of easy to medium grids by Grant Fikes for those looking to get into this puzzle style. More details on that book series, as well as our 2022 book publication schedule, will be shared soon.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our most recent week of shading variety puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. All the genres this week feature in our e-book: Shading Variety Collection by Prasanna Seshadri.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

The next week of puzzles will continue on the shading theme from last week, with a full week of Aqre puzzles as well as a Sunday Stumper. We hope you enjoy seeing more of this puzzle style that we’re adding into our official rotation this year.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our most recent week of TomTom is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

My constructor-side video for the 400th post TomTom is also coming up later this week now here.

The next week of puzzles will feature five shading puzzle styles we don’t regular post; these same styles will also be featured in a book released later today from Prasanna Seshadri. Many people have asked when we might be adding more puzzles to our “official” rotation, and one of the puzzles this week will be getting that status in Week 5 as we add a few puzzles in 2022 to the regular publication schedule.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our most recent week of Sudoku and variations is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

The next week of puzzles will feature TomTom puzzles, and we’ll have our second “Art of Puzzlecrafting” video to share for my milestone 400th post at the end of the week. We’re also finishing our first book of 2022 that will release next Sunday with a themed week of puzzles to follow.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our first week of 2022 is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:

In 2022 we’re looking to have a few additional kinds of videos on our YouTube channel and we’re releasing our first “Art of Puzzlecrafting” video with Prasanna Seshadri talking about his thoughts in constructing the hard Saturday Fillomino puzzle. We’ll have several more of these through the year (with the next one from me in a couple weeks).

In a few minutes we will also release our first Sunday Stumper of the year.

The next week of puzzles will feature Sudoku and variations, and we’ll have some other news posting as well.

Schedule for Next Week

We hope you enjoyed seeing some of our Best Puzzles of 2021 collected together last week.

This coming week we’ll be starting off with a Welcome to 2022 variety puzzle mix week with six different genres from Monday to Saturday. We’re also working on a few more site updates and completing our 2022 book plans and will share the info here when ready.

Wrapping up 2021 and prepping for 2022

Happy New Year to our GMPuzzles fans!

For those that missed it, we just released Grandmaster Puzzles Quarterly: Volume 2, a collection of ninety-six puzzles across six genres: Isodoku, Kakuro, Statue Park, LITS, Cave, and Slitherlink.

This next week will again be “off” from regular puzzle posts. But we still plan to post some different kinds of content and updates. We intend to share our Best of 2021 puzzles, make some updates to Penpa-Edit, grade our 2021 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and share our 2022 OKRs and book plans.