{"id":13217,"date":"2021-03-07T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=13217"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:12:20","slug":"sunday-update-and-solutions-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sunday-update-and-solutions-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Update and Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is still another week to submit answers to Prasanna&#8217;s <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/contest-puzzle-linking-200-cells-by-prasanna-seshadri\/>200th puzzle submission<\/a> contest. That challenging puzzle as well as the <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30th-birthday-surprise-by-prasanna-seshadri\/>30th Birthday Surprise<\/a> would have filled the week on their own, but we also had six great TomTom puzzles for you. The TomTom puzzles are collected in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2021\/2021W8-Tomx2-Puzzles.pdf\">PDF<\/a> and the solutions are in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2021\/2021W8-Tomx2-Solutions.pdf\">PDF<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have made solving videos in Penpa-Edit for all of the TomToms from this week so check these out if you got stuck or want to learn more ways to think about these puzzles:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMPuzzles - 2021\/03\/01 - TomTom by Salih Alan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkCvg24yVus?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 - 2021\/03\/02 - TomTom by Thomas Snyder\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrKzrfdvblw?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 - 2021\/03\/03 - TomTom by Ashish Kumar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8-JXvwd8j3I?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 - 2021\/03\/04 - TomTom by Murat Can Tonta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRxGeJdu8Vc?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 - 2021\/03\/05 - TomTom by Thomas Snyder\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/finU33QzUM0?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 - 2021\/03\/06 - TomTom (Skyscrapers) by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXx5MWG761g?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>This upcoming week features a variety mix of puzzles, all with the same new constraint of &#8220;Even Rows and Columns&#8221;. 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