17/12/02 – Tapa (Different)
17/10/07 – Snake Pit X
17/09/13 – Cross the Streams (LITS)
17/09/02 – Pentominous (Borders)
17/08/19 – Killer Sudoku
17/08/05 – Double Kakuro
17/07/22 – Tapa (Hex)
17/06/28-29 – Spiral Galaxies + 2x
17/06/15 – Nurikabe (Yajisan-Kazusan)
17/06/01 – Pentosnake
17/05/12 – Castle Wall (Hex)
17/04/12+15 – Double Yajilin
17/03/25 – Starship Battle
17/03/11 – Tapa (Visionary)
17/03/04 – Fillomino (Symmetry)
17/02/10 – Cave
17/01/27 – Masyu or Balance Loop?
17/01/13 – Pata
16/12/10 – Fillomino (Kropki)
16/11/12 – Statue Park
16/11/05 – Minesweeper (Even Rows/Columns)
16/10/23 and 16/10/21 – Tight Fit Sudoku (Classic and Killer)
16/10/08 – Roller Coaster
16/09/30 – Pentominous (Star Battle)
16/09/17 – Japanese+Latin Sums
16/09/10 – Fillomino (Symmetry)
16/08/27 – Castle Wall
16/08/17 – Gapped Kakuro
16/08/06 – Slitherlink (Large-Square)
16/07/29 – Yajilin
16/07/22 – Canal View
16/07/09 – Thermo-Sudoku
16/07/01 – Masyu (Regional)
16/06/10 – Star Battle (Small Regions)
16/05/13 – Yajilin (Transparent)
16/04/28 – Cross the Streams (Windows)
16/04/16 – Range
16/04/10 – Killer Sudoku
16/03/17 – Ripple Effect
16/03/12 – Slitherlink
16/02/27 – Arrow Sudoku
16/02/18 – Kurotto
16/02/13 – Double Kakuro
15/04/02 – Snake Egg
15/03/26 – Fillomino (Symmetry)
15/03/21 – Skyscrapers
15/03/14 – 2D Top Heavy Number Place
15/03/05 – Yajilin
15/03/01 – Star Battle (bonus)
15/02/22 – Skyscrapers (bonus)
15/02/13 – Balance Loop
15/02/07 – Kakuro (Hex)
15/01/31 – Even/Odd Sudoku
15/01/24 – TomTom
15/01/16 – Unique Clues Tapa
15/01/10 – Battleships
14/12/26 – Pentopia
14/12/17 – Battleships
14/12/13 – Cross the Streams (LITS)
14/12/05 – Cipher Fillomino
14/11/28 – Prime Cave
14/11/22 – Cipher Pentominous
14/11/15 – Castle Wall
14/11/08 – LITS
14/10/31 – Jack-O’-Lantern Thermo Sudoku
14/10/24 – TomTom
14/10/17 – RoundTrip
14/10/04 – Pentomino
14/09/27 – Tapa
14/09/18 – Pentominous
14/09/12 – Sudoku
14/09/06 – Tapa-Like Loop
14/08/28 – Pentominous
14/08/23 – Killer Sudoku
14/08/15 – Kuromasu
14/08/08 – Sum Skyscrapers
14/08/02 – Repeated Neighbors Sudoku
14/07/24 – Nanro
14/07/12 – Nurikabe
14/07/04 and 14/07/06 – Star Battle
14/06/24 and 14/06/27 – Cross the Streams (B&W Partially Inverted and Pentominoes)
14/06/09 and 14/06/21 – Word Nurikabe and Cipher TomTom from IPC
14/06/13 – Transparent Tapa
14/05/31 – Slitherlink (Portal)
14/05/22 – LITS
14/05/08-09 – Araf
14/05/03 – Heavy Dots
14/04/19 – Ripple Effect
14/04/12 – Checkered Fillomino
14/04/05 – Audio Cross the Streams
14/03/28 – Outside Nurikabe
14/03/21 – Sudoku
14/03/07 – Slitherlink (Sheep and Wolves)
14/02/27 – Cave
14/02/14 – Fillomino

Region Division puzzles made up a total of 64 posts, and had some of the highest rankings of all of our puzzles making this an incredibly tight category.

One puzzle with a very high FAVE/solver ratio was this creative “Infinity!” Araf from Serkan Yürekli:

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While many of our best Cave puzzles were contained in our ebooks this year, Thomas Snyder’s Product Cave from January garnered a lot of Favorite votes:

Fillomino puzzles closed out our favorites of 2014. Arguably the best puzzle of the year was a giant Fillomino “Dear John” from Grant Fikes that went out to our patrons in April; these votes just cover our web puzzles though.

Tapio Saarinen made a cute Fillomino out of just tiny digits:

Guest contributor Robert Vollmert created a really challenging Checkered Fillomino with some interesting discoveries inside as well:

Closing out the best Region Division puzzles of 2014 were a pair of Cipher Fillomino from Palmer Mebane. Palmer’s not had a lot of interest in puzzle construction over the last couple years, but whenever he returns with new ideas they have been fantastic. Quoting from his email that submitted these two: “This is not really a return; just a couple good ideas that were too good (in my head) to leave undone.” While Tic-Tac-Toe got a lot of Fave votes, the C Major theme earned the most for Region Division puzzles and tied (with the TomTomTom and a puzzle to be named tomorrow) for Puzzle of the Year:

These best puzzles have been gathered in this PDF.