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Sunday update with solutions and schedule for next week

Our first 2020 week of puzzles can be found in this PDF and the solutions are all grouped in this PDF and have been linked to the individual posts.

This week’s video talkthrough is for Elyot Grant’s interesting Fillomino puzzle.

Next week we will be featuring Sudoku puzzles including some variations.


It is great to be back, which means we met our goals of relaunching our e-book store alongside our weekly web puzzles. For the whole month of June, we have a 20% discount on all titles in the shop (automatically applied at checkout) so please check out the store if you want to purchase some puzzle PDFs.

There are more updates to come later in the year as we strive to improve the GMPuzzles community experience. One of those areas to is expand our Sunday content, including a return of our “Ask Dr. Sudoku” column. One topic we will plan to discuss soon is related to a comment from this week’s Star Battle puzzle — how should we integrate electronic solving options to our web posts and books. If you have other questions or suggested topics for us, please share as comments and we’ll select some for future posts.

We also are overdue to post our “Best Puzzles of 2019”, and we will start that next Sunday with our Best Sudoku of 2019. But as an early preview, and as the extra solution video for this week, we wanted to link to one of our very best (and trickiest) puzzles of 2019, this Fillomino from John Bulten from January 2019. In case you missed it, please try it now; tips if you get stuck are in the solution video below.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring a variety mix of puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This next week features a set of Sudoku variations — as well as some “Sudoku hybrids” with other puzzles using the terminology from this “What is a Sudoku?” report in progress. Several of the puzzles are connected to the upcoming World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships (WSC and WPC) happening in Germany next week. We will taking a couple of weeks off around this event, and will have news on our return in October.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Sudoku by Tom Collyer and an Arrow Sudoku by Murat Can Tonta, as well as access to the puzzle solutions. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring a variety mix of puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This next week features a set of Masyu puzzles and variations, several more difficult/interesting than you might expect for such small grids and for this puzzle style.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Masyu by Grant Fikes and another by Ashish Kumar, as well as access to the puzzle solutions. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring Tapa puzzles can be found in this PDF.

Our next week is a variety mix with several interesting puzzles from our puzzlemasters as well as four guest contributors.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Kakuro by Serkan Yürekli and a Star Battle by Murat Can Tonta, as well as access to the puzzle solutions and a video walkthrough of the Friday puzzle. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring Fillomino puzzles can be found in this PDF.

Our next week features the fun shading puzzle style Tapa including a few variations.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Tapa by Ashish Kumar and another by Prasanna Seshadri, as well as access to the puzzle solutions and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring a variety mix of puzzles can be found in this PDF.

Our next week features a favorite region-division puzzle style, Fillomino, including a few variations.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Fillomino by Thomas Snyder and another by Murat Can Tonta, as well as access to the puzzle solutions and a video walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring Star Battle puzzles can be found in this PDF.

After a couple weeks off, we are back with a variety mix, possibly a little harder than our usual difficulty. We have six puzzles from different authors, one from each of our six main categories.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus TomTom by Murat Can Tonta and a Castle Wall by Serkan Yürekli, as well as access to the puzzle solutions. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring Skyscrapers puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This week we are featuring one of the solvers’ favorite styles: Star Battle. We’ll have puzzles from several of our puzzlemasters as well as two guest contributors, as well as one or two surprises.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Star Battle by Thomas Snyder and another by Murat Can Tonta, as well as access to the puzzle solutions. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week featuring the debut of Ashish Kumar as a contributing puzzlemaster here with a lot of doubled puzzles can be found in this PDF.

This week we are featuring the genre Skyscrapers with some classic puzzles and two variations. If you enjoy this style and want to see more, we recommend you purchase our latest collection Skyscrapers by Ashish Kumar.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Skyscrapers puzzle by Murat Can Tonta and another by Thomas Snyder, as well as access to the puzzle solutions and a written walkthrough of the Saturday puzzle. Our grandmaster level subscribers are also receiving a 30×30 Giant Kurotto puzzle by Thomas Snyder. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.

Schedule for Next Week

Our last week of Sudoku variations (Arrow, Thermo, and Even/Odd) can be found in this PDF.

This would normally be our “off week”, but we are going to post our next week early and take the following week off instead. We want to start the second half of the year early with the debut of a new puzzlemaster and an extra-large week. Please welcome Ashish Kumar as the next contributing puzzlemaster to GMPuzzles. Ashish is already the author of two e-book collections for us, Nurikabe which has been in our estore for a few months and Skyscrapers which has just been added. We have a set of 12 puzzles from Ashish for his debut week.

Our master+ subscribers will be receiving a bonus Snake puzzle and a bonus Gaps puzzle, both by Ashish Kumar, as well as access to the puzzle solutions and a walkthrough video of the Thursday puzzle. Our grandmaster-level subscribers, who receive our e-books first, got Ashish’s Skyscrapers book several months ago. If you want to become a subscriber and get access to bonus puzzles, solutions, e-books, and other rewards, check out this page.