{"id":10896,"date":"2020-07-12T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2020-07-03T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:40:45","slug":"best-of-2019-number-placement-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/best-of-2019-number-placement-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2019: Number Placement Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2019, selected from the 35 web posts in this category based on your FAVE votes:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We had a &#8220;pair&#8221; of Kakuro puzzles that were both on the higher end of the list for 2019 (admittedly the &#8220;pair&#8221; was more of an editorial connection given similar grid shapes but different solving paths; both were great puzzles and posted on back-to-back days). The second of the pair was this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/kakuro-nonconsecutive-by-grant-fikes-bonus\/>Nonconsecutive Kakuro<\/a> from Grant Fikes that was a Sunday bonus for our subscribers. (Note: we are beginning to organize all of our web bonus puzzles into a new book so that those who missed these puzzles from 2014-2019 can see what they missed.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190203-KakuroNC-AndAfter-blur.png\" alt=\"Kakuro by Grant Fikes\"><\/p>\n<p>In terms of variety Number Placement styles, this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/smashed-sums-by-michael-tang\/>Smashed Sums<\/a> by Michael Tang with a Binary theme got top marks. It is a great example of our &#8220;Grandmaster Puzzles&#8221; style: a compelling visual theme that also leads to a satisfying logical solve.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190312-SmashedSums-Binary.png\" alt=\"Smashed Sums by Michael Tang\"><\/p>\n<p>We really enjoy TomTom puzzles and two TomToms from our contributing puzzlemasters stood out this year. Both highlighted reusing a small number of clue values to create an interesting solving path. Ashish Kumar brought us this &#8220;Three Thirty&#8221; <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/tomtom-by-ashish-kumar\/>TomTom<\/a> where if you can solve the puzzle that fast you&#8217;d be breaking our grandmaster time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190419-TomTom-ThreeThirty.png\" alt=\"TomTom by Ashish Kumar\"><\/p>\n<p>Murat Can Tonta brought us this &#8220;Jackpot&#8221; <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/tomtom-by-murat\/>TomTom<\/a> with all sevens to sort out, and a lot of top votes to make it our second favorite in this category.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190418-TomTom-Jackpot.png\" alt=\"TomTom by Murat Can Tonta\"><\/p>\n<p>Overall, our best Number Placement puzzle of 2019 was this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/kakuro-by-murat-can-tonta\/>Kakuro<\/a> also from Murat Can Tonta, with a similar pattern to the first puzzle on this list and a challenging but fun solving path.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190202-Kakuro-Before.png\" alt=\"Kakuro by Murat Can Tonta\"><\/p>\n<p>All of these best Number Placement puzzles are collected in this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/BestOf2019-NumPlacement.pdf>PDF file<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2019, selected from the 35 web posts in this category based on your FAVE votes: We had a &#8220;pair&#8221; of Kakuro puzzles that were both on the higher end of the list for 2019 (admittedly the &#8220;pair&#8221; was more of an editorial connection given similar grid shapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof","tag-bestof"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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