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Sunday Update and Solutions

Our recent week of Balance Loop puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Balance Loop puzzles (that are only in these books and not on our website) can be found in our e-store at this link.

The daily solution videos, this week from Prasanna, are on the posts and linked below:

Astute observers may have noticed that Japanese Sums was recently added to our Number Placement puzzle list on the main blog roster. We’ve also fully digitized the Penpa backlog for it. This upcoming week will feature this “new” puzzle to the website, as well as a Sunday Stumper next week. Japanese Sums will also be one of the six puzzle styles in Grandmaster Puzzles Quarterly 4 which will be released later today, so watch for more information on that.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our recent week of Sudoku puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. Many more original Sudoku puzzles (that have not been on our blog) can be found in our e-store at this link including our popular The Art of Sudoku series and the Masterpiece Sudoku Mixes.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Balance Loop puzzles.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our recent week of Snake Pit puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Sudoku and variations.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Last week’s collection of Battleships puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. You can find more Battleships puzzles in these books in our e-store.

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

In a few minutes we will have a Sunday Stumper: a Battleship Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli. Our next week of puzzles features Snake Pit puzzles.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our previous variety mix week of hexagonal grid puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Battleships puzzles and variations. We will also have a Sunday Stumper from Serkan Yürekli in 7 days.

Sunday Update and Solutions with new Tapa e-book and bonus puzzle

Today we’re excited to announce the release of the new book Tapa and Variations 3, co-authored by Zoltán Horváth and Serkan Yürekli. It features 20 classic Tapa puzzles (including one giant grid) as well as 4 puzzles in each of 9 variations for 56 Tapa in total. This book follows our release about a month ago of Starter Pack 2: Tapa which is a good way for a beginner to get into Tapa where Tapa and Variations 3 has some very challenging puzzles.

To mark the release of the new book, Serkan wrote a bonus “Tapa Sudoku” puzzle for the Cracking the Cryptic channel which you solve find here, as well as watching a solving explanation from Simon Anthony from his own experience with the puzzle as well as seeing me go through it.

Our previous week of Tapa puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Tapa puzzles can be found in these books in our store. All of our books including the ones mentioned above feature original puzzles (not from the website), and buying these books is a great way to support the site while getting more fun logical challenges to solve.

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

Our next week of puzzles features hexagonal grids, with six different styles taken to a new logical shape by changing the grid behavior.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our previous week of Skyscrapers puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Skyscrapers can be found in these books in our store. All of our books feature original puzzles (not from the website), and buying these books is a great way to support the site while getting more fun logical challenges to solve.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Tapa puzzles and variations, and will also mark the release of Tapa and Variations 3, a new e-book from Zoltán Horváth and Serkan Yürekli that will be released next weekend.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our previous week of Sudoku puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Sudoku puzzles can be found in these books in our store. All of our books feature original puzzles (not from the website), and buying these books is a great way to support the site while getting more fun logical challenges to solve.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Skyscrapers puzzles, and in a few minutes we will have a Sunday Stumper from Jonas Gleim, an Arrow Sudoku / Thermo-Sudoku hybrid.

Sunday Update and Solutions

Our previous week of Slitherlink puzzles is gathered together in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More Slitherlink puzzles can be found in these books in our store. All of our books feature original puzzles (not from the website), and buying these books is a great way to support the site while getting more fun logical challenges to solve.

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

Our next week of puzzles features four classic Sudoku and two variations. We’ll also have an interesting Arrow Sudoku / Thermo-Sudoku hybrid for a Sunday Stumper in seven days.

New E-Book, Sunday Update, and Solutions

We’ve just published our third volume of the Grandmaster Puzzles Quarterly series. This title contains sixty puzzles across these genres: Thermo-Sudoku, Skyscrapers, Battleships, Cross the Streams, Kuromasu, and Balance Loop. Go to the link above to purchase the book PDF file. This marks two books released in two weeks after our Starter Pack 2: Tapa title was launched last Sunday.

Our past week of “Starter Pack” Variety puzzles is in this PDF and the solutions are in this PDF. More easy puzzles for people learning new puzzles can be found in our store.

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

Our next week of puzzles features Slitherlink and variations, which will also be a theme for an upcoming puzzle book later this spring.