Last week’s collection of Consecutive Pairs Sudoku from Tom Collyer is in this PDF.
Serkan Yürekli is providing the puzzles this week, specifically:
Three of his Golem Grad puzzles, a variation on Nurikabe. The puzzles are all roughly Wednesday difficulty.
Last week’s small collection of puzzles from John Bulten is in this PDF.
Tom Collyer provides the three puzzles this week, specifically:
Consecutive Pairs Sudoku puzzles, as also appeared on the recent UK Sudoku Grand Prix round.
Last week’s small collection of puzzles from Grant Fikes is here in this PDF.
John Bulten takes on the authorship role for the puzzles this week, including:
Tuesday: Masyu
Thursday: Nurikabe
Saturday: Star Battle
The last batch of puzzles is collected in this PDF.
For the next few weeks we’ll have small sets from some of our puzzle masters. Up first is a Grant Fikes week:
Tuesday: LITS
Thursday: Pentominous
Saturday: Cross the Streams
We’re going to try to slowly restart posting puzzles here. For awhile, this will mean 3 puzzles a week until other backlogged and delayed tasks are completed for the site including an expansion of our e-book store.
In addition to Serkan’s surprise posted this morning, you can expect to see these puzzles over the next two weeks:
6/30: Slitherlink by Grant Fikes
7/2: Skyscrapers by Prasanna Seshadri
7/4: Fillomino by Grant Fikes
7/7: Star Battle by Grant Fikes
7/9: Cave by John Bulten
7/11: Killer Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Digit Series and Clue Symmetry
Author/Opus: This is the 227th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules. Additionally, some numbered arrows outside the grid indicate the sum of the numbers along that diagonal path. (Numbers can repeat along a diagonal sum.)
Note: No answer strings or timing here (honor system for when you solve it). I’m simply posting some “examples” I wrote as the Sudoku Grand Prix coordinator. Apparently some common variants aren’t common enough….
Solution: PDF
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Diagonals
Author/Opus: This is the 226th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules. Additionally, there are two overlapping classic sudoku grids, and both must have valid solutions.
Note: No answer strings or timing here (honor system for when you solve it). I’m simply posting some “examples” I wrote as the Sudoku Grand Prix coordinator. Apparently some common variants aren’t common enough….
Solution: PDF
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Digit Series and Clue Symmetry
Author/Opus: This is the 225th puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules. Additionally, some edges are marked with the sums of the digits in the adjacent cells.
Note: No answer strings or timing here (honor system for when you solve it). I’m simply posting some “examples” I wrote as the Sudoku Grand Prix coordinator. Apparently some common variants aren’t common enough….
Solution: PDF
People looking for new puzzles from me should check out next weekend’s Puzzle Grand Prix. Many USPC contributors (and therefore many GMPuzzles contributors) have written puzzles. I’ve made LITS and Shape Minesweeper sections; Serkan Yürekli has made some Kakuro; Roger Barkan (author of the Colossal Cave Collection) has made some Caves.
There are still no solvers of the Hidden Contest.
I continue working through my transition; while I’ve been at my new job for a month, I only just found my permanent residence in CA for this year and will move in next weekend. Still a lot to do before I see the time returning to do much with GMPuzzles.
We’ve extended the hidden contest for at least two more weeks and added another hint for it.
Besides this hidden contest, there will likely be no new puzzles on the site until May, and a return to a regular schedule will probably still be some time after that. I’ll be using some of this time to close out lots of things that have been pushed back because of the demands of meeting a weekly posting schedule, including the print edition of The Art of Puzzles, the print and electronic editions of The Art of Puzzles 2: Double Trouble, as well as the #1 Fans puzzle promised to our patrons long ago. Thanks again for your patience.