For those that missed it, we released a new e-book TomTom last Sunday. It is a great collection from four of our puzzlemasters for this number placement style. We are working to complete two 25-puzzle Sudoku variation packs this month and will then release our first edition of a quarterly puzzle mix magazine late in August. As we’re finding we are on track to release 12 books this year (about one a month), we’re considering restarting a subscription option for people to get some/all of our book content at a discount. Please watch this space for more info in the coming months and, as always, share any feedback you have with us on our puzzle collections.

Our past week of Slitherlink puzzles is collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. There are more Slitherlink puzzles in these e-books in our store.

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

This next week will feature Sudoku puzzles including two variations, and our next Sunday Stumper will be released next on July 18th.

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or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in edgex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)

Theme: Diagonals

Author/Opus: This is the 385th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Slitherlink rules.

Difficulty: 2 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:15, Master = 2:00, Expert = 4:00

Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.

Note: Follow this link for classic Slitherlink and this link for Slitherlink variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Slitherlink puzzles to get started on. More Slitherlink puzzles can be found in The Art of Puzzles, Slitherlink and Variations, and our beginner-friendly book Logic Puzzles 101.

Just released to our e-store is this TomTom collection. Our puzzlemasters Ashish Kumar, JinHoo Ahn, Murat Can Tonta, and Serkan Yürekli have worked together to create 63 incredible hand-crafted challenges. Your mind will need to stretch a lot to solve the 42 classic TomToms, 20 variations (4 each in 5 different styles), and the giant TomTom (Samurai) puzzle that concludes the book. If you enjoy mathematical and logical challenges, this book will be perfect for you.

Our past week of LITS puzzles is collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. There are more LITS puzzles in these e-books in our store.

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

Later today we’ll be releasing our next e-book, TomTom, with 63 puzzles from four of our grandmasters.

This next week will feature Slitherlink puzzles.

Our variety mix of hexagonal puzzles from last week is collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

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

This next week will feature a mix of LITS puzzles.

PDF

or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)

Theme: Mini Hexes

Author/Opus: This is the 384th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Variation of LITS. Shade exactly four cells in each outlined region to form an S, L, I, C, or Y tetrahex. When all regions have been shaded, the following conditions must be true:
1) All shaded cells will be connected through a network of adjacent shaded cells;
2) No three shaded cells will share a common vertex;
3) When two tetrahexes share an edge in adjacent regions, they must not be the same type (S, L, I, C, or Y), regardless of potential rotations or reflections.

Difficulty: 3.5 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 5:00, Master = 8:00, Expert = 16:00

Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.

Note: Follow this link for more variations of LITS and this link for classic LITS. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest LITS to get started on. More LITS puzzles can be found in LOTS O’ LITS by Grant Fikes and Prasanna Seshadri, in The Art of Puzzles 2, and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.

Our past week of TomTom puzzles is collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. The Sunday Stumper we just posted will be added to our large puzzle file later this week on our All Weekly PDFs page. There are more TomTom puzzles in these e-books in our store and we will be releasing a new TomTom collection in the next few weeks.

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

This next week will feature a variety mix of puzzles, all on hexagonal grids. Also, if you haven’t done it yet, this weekend is a Puzzle Grand Prix round co-authored by me and Serkan Yürekli.

PDF

or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)

Theme: Tetrominoes

Author/Opus: This is the 383rd puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard TomTom rules, using the integers 1-8.

Difficulty: 4 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 11:00, Master = 15:30, Expert = 31:00

Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.

Note: Follow this link for classic TomTom and this link for TomTom variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest TomTom to get started on. More TomTom puzzles can be found in the TomTom collection, in The Art of Puzzles, and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.

2021 continues to be a year of transition and growth for GMPuzzles. Having brought Serkan Yürekli on-board as Managing Editor last year, and getting more support from the rest of our team, we’ve had the opportunity this year to focus on several different parts of our publishing business. At the start of the year I set our some objectives and key results for GMPuzzles. While this was just a set of internal targets, I wanted to write today to share our goals with our audience, suggest how we think we are doing, and get your feedback on anything more we need to be doing to meet our objectives.

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Our past week of Yajilin puzzles is collected in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. There are more Yajilin puzzles in these e-books in our store.

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

This next week will feature TomTom puzzles. There will be a challenging TomTom as a Sunday Stumper for June 20th. I will also be back in the next day or two with the start of a mid-year check-in on our company goals.

Finally, this coming weekend is a Puzzle Grand Prix round co-authored by me and Serkan Yürekli.