{"id":10813,"date":"2020-06-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2020-06-28T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:04:06","slug":"sunday-update-with-solutions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/sunday-update-with-solutions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update with solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A reminder that throughout June, as part of our reopening, we have a special <b>20% discount on all titles<\/b> in the shop (automatically applied at checkout) so please check out the <a href=http:\/\/shop.gmpuzzles.com>store<\/a> if you want to purchase some puzzle PDFs.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Our most recent week of Star Battle puzzles can be found in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/2020W3-SeeTheStars-Puzzles.pdf\">PDF<\/a> and the solutions are all grouped in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/2020W3-SeeTheStars-Solutions.pdf\">PDF<\/a> and have also been linked to the individual posts.<\/p>\n<p>We have three video solution talkthroughs for this week. As I was the constructor for the Saturday puzzle, you can find my exact intended path in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMPuzzles - 2020\/06\/20 - Star Battle by Thomas Snyder\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61y5ozNuMIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and you can also find my approaches to solving the Wednesday and Friday puzzles in these videos<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMPuzzles - 2020\/06\/17 - Star Battle by Anurag Sahay\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTLNijDoy60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMPuzzles - 2020\/06\/19 - Star Battle by Murat Can Tonta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EglukCZS1h8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over this weekend, we have also completed the first part of a long-term project to add solutions to our web backlog. 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