The most recent week of Rock Paper Scissors and Canal View puzzles can be found in this PDF.

Our next week of puzzles features submissions from Grant Fikes and a return to some easier puzzles after a stretch of tough weeks. The schedule is:

Monday: Nurikabe
Tuesday: Slitherlink
Wednesday: Cave
Thursday: Nanro
Friday: Yajilin
Saturday: Pentominous

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Fillomino by Grant Fikes, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Friday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

Finally, The Art of Sudoku is part of this incredible puzzle book Humble Bundle. Check it out and contribute to charity while getting an impressive collection of word, logic, and other puzzles:

The most recent week of Sudoku variations can be found in this PDF.

Our next week of puzzles includes two variations that have appeared on recent United States Puzzles Championships, specifically Rock Paper Scissors from 2016 and Tapa View, now renamed as Canal View, from 2014. These puzzles are on the harder end than usual.

Monday: Rock Paper Scissors by Serkan Yürekli
Tuesday: Rock Paper Scissors by Serkan Yürekli
Wednesday: Rock Paper Scissors by Serkan Yürekli
Thursday: Canal View by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Canal View by Murat Can Tonta
Saturday: Canal View by Prasanna Seshadri

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Cave by Murat Can Tonta, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Friday puzzle. This week we’ll also be sharing a Tapa and Variations e-book by Serkan Yürekli with our long-time Grandmaster patrons that will be on our e-store later this year. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

We’ve been doing some late “spring cleaning” around GMPuzzles, editing some Giant puzzles and e-books for our patrons. Our next week of puzzles will start on July 18th with two variations that have appeared on recent United States Puzzles Championships.

Last week’s set of patron-requested puzzles can be found in this PDF.

While we provide a lot of sudoku variations for some of Penny Publications’ magazines, I keep the most unique and/or hard puzzles to post here. This week features another set of challenging and fun sudoku variations from our contributors:

Monday: Arrow Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli
Tuesday: Isodoku by Prasanna Seshadri
Wednesday: Isodoku by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: Arrow Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli
Friday: Thermo-Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli
Saturday: Thermo-Sudoku by Swaroop Guggilam

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Isodoku by Prasanna Seshadri, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

PDF

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

Theme: DC (for patron Daniel Cohen)

Author/Opus: This is the 247th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Nurikabe rules.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments (the unnumbered, connected “ocean”) from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for other classic Nurikabe. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Nurikabes to get started on.

Our second “Patron Week” of the year is coming up with challenges requested by our supporters. The week has a fun mix of classics and variations but be aware that the difficulty is higher than usual.
Monday: Nurikabe by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Yajilin by John Bulten
Wednesday: Cave (Diagonal) by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: Word Connection by Serkan Yürekli
Friday: Masyu (Regional) by Prasanna Seshadri
Saturday: Easy as Kakuro by Serkan Yürekli

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Pentominous by Grant Fikes, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Friday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

The most recent week of puzzles from Serkan Yürekli and Murat Can Tonta can be found in this PDF.

It is taking longer than expected to edit our next “Patron Week” of puzzles, including a giant Saturday puzzle that will take a long time to solve. So it will be one more week before new puzzles are posted here, but it will be worth the wait.

The second part of our two week US Puzzle Grand Prix spotlight can be found in this PDF.

This week features puzzles from both Murat Can Tonta and Serkan Yürekli:

Monday: Star Battle (Small Regions) by Serkan Yürekli
Tuesday: Yajilin by Murat Can Tonta
Wednesday: Star Battle (Small Regions) by Serkan Yürekli
Thursday: Fillomino by Murat Can Tonta
Friday: Star Battle (Small Regions) by Serkan Yürekli
Saturday: Tapa (Loop) by Murat Can Tonta

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Star Battle (Small Regions) by Serkan Yürekli, access to puzzle solutions, and a video walkthrough of the Friday puzzle. If you’d like to receive some of these special rewards, please click here for more info.

PDF

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

Theme: Pentomino (originally on the US round for the 2016 WPF Puzzle Grand Prix)

Author/Opus: This is the 246th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

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

Answer String: Enter the 1st row from left to right followed by the 4th row from left to right. Separate the entries with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 6:30, Master = 12:00, Expert = 24:00

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for other classic TomTom. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest TomTom to get started on.

PDF

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

Theme: Cornered (originally on the US round for the 2016 WPF Puzzle Grand Prix)

Author/Opus: This is the 245th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Star Battle rules. Two stars per row, column, and region.

Answer String: For each row from top to bottom, enter the number of the first column from the left where a star appears. Enter these numbers as a single string with no separators. Enter both digits of any two-digit column number.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:15, Master = 7:45, Expert = 15:30

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for other classic Star Battles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Star Battles to get started on.