Our most recent week of Castle Wall puzzles is gathered in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our e-store here.
The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:
This coming week will feature Easy as ABC puzzles as well as other puzzles using these rules to highlight outside, visible clues.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: Hexed
Author/Opus: This is the 423rd puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules except on a hexagonal grid.
Difficulty: 5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 15:30, Master = 21:30, Expert = 43:00
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: Odds
Author/Opus: This is the 378th puzzle from our managing editor Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules, but any two consecutive line segments cannot have the same length (i.e., on both sides of any turn, the loop must travel different lengths).
Difficulty: 4 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 6:30, Master = 9:45, Expert = 19:30
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: Black Window
Author/Opus: This is the 2nd puzzle from guest contributor Stefan Liew. (This particular puzzle was an early and noteworthy puzzle from @stefpuzzle’s daily Castle Wall series that reached 100 total puzzles.)
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules.
Difficulty: 2.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:30, Master = 4:30, Expert = 9:00
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: Black Box
Author/Opus: This is the 57th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster JinHoo Ahn.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules.
Difficulty: 2.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: Windmill
Author/Opus: This is the 17th puzzle from guest contributor Jonas Gleim.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules.
Difficulty: 2 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:15, Master = 2:30, Expert = 5:00
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: 4×4
Author/Opus: This is the 244th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules.
Difficulty: 2 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:20, Master = 2:00, Expert = 4:00
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more Castle Wall puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Castle Wall puzzles to get started on. More Castle Wall puzzles can be found in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles as well as the larger collection Castle Wall, both by Serkan Yürekli.
Our most recent week of Pentominous puzzles is gathered in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Pentominous puzzles can be found in our e-store here.
The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below:
This coming week will feature four classic Castle Wall puzzles as well as two variations.
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or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between a composite mode for line/edge drawing, a letter entry mode, and a shading mode.)
Theme: In Tux
Author/Opus: This is the 91st puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster John Bulten.
Rules: Standard Pentominous rules.
Difficulty: 4 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 7:15, Master = 10:15, Expert = 20:30
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for other Pentominous puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Pentominous to get started on. More Pentominous puzzles can be found in the Plenty o’ Pentominous series by Grant Fikes and Murat Can Tonta and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between a composite mode for line/edge drawing, a letter entry mode, and a shading mode.)
Theme: Four
Author/Opus: This is the 377th puzzle from our managing editor Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Pentominous rules. Additionally, there are some gray cells that do not contain any pentominoes. The numbers in these gray cells indicate how many pentomino regions are present in the 8 neighboring cells.
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 6:00, Master = 7:30, Expert = 15:00
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for other Pentominous puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Pentominous to get started on. More Pentominous puzzles can be found in the Plenty o’ Pentominous series by Grant Fikes and Murat Can Tonta and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.