Sunday update with solutions
A reminder that throughout June, as part of our reopening, we have a special 20% discount on all titles in the shop (automatically applied at checkout) so please check out the store if you want to purchase some puzzle PDFs.
Our most recent week of Star Battle puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have also been linked to the individual posts.
We have three video solution talkthroughs for this week. As I was the constructor for the Saturday puzzle, you can find my exact intended path in this video:
and you can also find my approaches to solving the Wednesday and Friday puzzles in these videos
Over this weekend, we have also completed the first part of a long-term project to add solutions to our web backlog. All puzzles from 2018 and 2019 now have posted PDFs of the solutions, and you can also grab their solutions from our weekly PDFs page.
Later today we will be back with our second “Best of 2019” post highlighting Object Placement puzzles, and also a post discussing thoughts on online solving tools for GMPuzzles. And this upcoming week we will focus on Pentominous puzzles.
Interesting to see how different some of these solution paths are from what I did (e.g., for the Friday puzzle, at 2:30 of the video I considered instead (rot13) ebjf fvk naq frira, and all the logic thereafter is totally different.)
I guess star battle naturally lends itself to less tight solutions paths, as opposed to say, sudoku, where it feels like hard puzzles often have unavoidable hard single deductions. But maybe that’s just because I’m rubbish at solving sudoku…