Grant Fikes is back with a full week of puzzles (classics and variants) that we think you will enjoy. Specifically:

Monday: Yajilin
Tuesday: Fillomino
Wednesday: Sashikabe
Thursday: Cross the Streams (Windows)
Friday: Masyu
Saturday: Pentominous

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

PS: Due to work finishing the US round for the WPF Puzzle Grand Prix, the next week of new puzzles will start on 5/9.

Last week’s set of Range puzzles from Serkan Yürekli can be found in this PDF.

There will be no new puzzles posted this week.

Last week’s “Patron’s Week” of puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This week comes from Serkan Yürekli with a collection of Range puzzles.

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Nanro from Murat Can Tonta, 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.

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

Theme: Phleb (for patron Paul Hlebowitsh)

Author/Opus: This is the 237th 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 = 2:45, Master = 4:45, Expert = 9:30

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.

This week is our first “Patron’s Week”, with five puzzles made for our Super Grandmasters, and one puzzle written by one of our Super Grandmasters. As our authors pulled out all the stops for our patrons, the difficulty for this week is higher than usual.

Monday: Star Battle by Thomas Snyder
Tuesday: Tapa (Borders) by Serkan Yürekli
Wednesday: Slitherlink (Liar) by Prasanna Seshadri
Thursday: Nurikabe by Prasanna Seshadri
Friday: Easy as Signpost LITS by Chris Green
Saturday: Killer Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Nurikabe from 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.

Last week’s collection of puzzles from Grant Fikes can be found in this PDF.

We’ll be back with a special “patrons week” of puzzles on 4/4.

Last week’s guest week of puzzles (as well as Prasanna’s earlier birthday puzzle) can be found in this PDF.

Next week we will have a trio of puzzle styles from Grant Fikes:

Monday: TomTom
Tuesday: TomTom
Wednesday: Ripple Effect
Thursday: Ripple Effect
Friday: Pentominous
Saturday: Pentominous

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

[Note: there will be no puzzles in the week after this one.]

We get lots of great submissions to GMPuzzles, most often on the hard end of the spectrum. This week will feature 6 different guest contributors with some unique and challenging puzzles (about 3 “Wednesdays” and about 3 “Saturdays” in difficulty):

Monday: Nurikabe by Swaroop Guggilam
Tuesday: Cave by Bryce Herdt
Wednesday: Tapa (Windows) by Jack Lance
Thursday: Thermo-Sudoku (Missing Bulbs) by Hans van Stippent
Friday: Fillomino by Carl Worth
Saturday: Slitherlink by Walker Anderson

Our supporters will also be receiving a bonus Pentominous from Grant Fikes, 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.

Last week’s Sudoku mix can be found in this PDF.

Next week will not have any regular puzzles, but check back in the middle of the week for a large bonus puzzle that will keep you busy! Can’t wait for the bonus? Become a supporter of the site and you’ll receive every week of puzzles early as well as other rewards. Click here for more info.

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

Theme: GP = Grandmaster Puzzles

Author/Opus: This is the 236th puzzle from Thomas Snyder aka Dr. Sudoku.

Rules: Standard Consecutive Pairs Sudoku rules. (If a gray circle is given between two adjacent cells, then the two numbers in those cells must be consecutive. Note not all gray circles are given; adjacent cells without a circle may contain either consecutive numbers or nonconsecutive numbers.)

Answer String: Enter the 6th row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 7th row from left to right.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:45, Master = 7:00, Expert = 14:00

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles on this website. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Consecutive Pairs Sudoku to get started on. More Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles can be found in The Art of Sudoku 2.