This past week’s set of Statue Park puzzles are collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. We have another Sunday Surprise coming out in a few minutes which will be a very hard Statue Park variation by JinHoo Ahn. If you enjoyed this genre, there are more Statue Park puzzles in this ebook by Murat Can Tonta.
The daily solution videos are on the posts and linked below.
This upcoming week will feature Kakuro puzzles.
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Theme: Checkerboards
Author/Opus: This is the 194th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a standard pentomino set.
Difficulty: 4 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 7:30, Master = 11:30, Expert = 23:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Pent-Up Rage
Author/Opus: This is the 77th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster John Bulten.
Rules: Place each of the twelve pentominoes into the grid once, with rotations and reflections allowed. No two pentominoes can overlap or be orthogonally adjacent, and all cells not occupied by the pentominoes must be traversed by a single, closed loop (connecting cells horizontally or vertically). The black circles indicate some cells that must be covered by pentominoes, white circles indicate spaces that may not be contained in pentominoes and must be part of the loop.
See also this example with five pentominoes:
Difficulty: 4 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:30, Master = 10:00, Expert = 20:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Love Stand
Author/Opus: This is the 63rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Ashish Kumar.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a standard pentomino set.
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:30, Master = 6:30, Expert = 13:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Molecules
Author/Opus: This is the 22nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster JinHoo Ahn.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a double tetromino set.
Difficulty: 2 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:20, Master = 2:15, Expert = 4:30
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Tiny Gap
Author/Opus: This is the 323rd puzzle from our managing editor Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a double tetromino set.
Difficulty: 2 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:15, Master = 1:45, Expert = 3:30
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Antisymmetry
Author/Opus: This is the 204th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. This puzzle uses a standard tetromino set.
Difficulty: 2 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 0:25, Master = 0:50, Expert = 1:40
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
This past week’s set of Pentominous puzzles are collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. If you enjoyed this genre, there are many more Pentominous puzzles in our “Plenty o’ Pentominous” series as well as in the book Intro to GMPuzzles.
The daily solution videos are on the posts and also linked below. I was playing with a few different notation styles (lines, shading, letters, …) through the week on Penpa, and admit this is one of the puzzles where multiple defaults (and even multiple solution checking options) may be best. Please share your comments on how you prefer to solve Pentominous puzzles and if you could make this work in Penpa. We will probably document all of these methods when we formalize the user experience for this style and for Fillomino.
This upcoming week will feature Statue Park puzzles and will also include a large variation as a Sunday Stumper.
Finally, there are still some minor debugging and optimization steps happening with the fave/solve tracker after the most recent update, including trying to lengthen the time the login is stored. Please keep sharing your comments on how this is working and if all of the solving history has come over from the transfer to the site.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between a composite mode for line/edge drawing and a letter entry mode.)
Theme: WXY
Author/Opus: This is the 21st puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster JinHoo Ahn.
Rules: Standard Pentominous rules.
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:00, Master = 8:30, Expert = 17:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
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 and a letter entry mode.)
Theme: PENTOMINO
Author/Opus: This is the 6th puzzle from guest contributor Jonas Gleim.
Rules: Variation of Pentominous rules. Some borders between pentominoes are already drawn.
Difficulty: 3 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:00, Master = 5:30, Expert = 11:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
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.