{"id":13317,"date":"2021-03-14T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:16:35","slug":"sunday-update-and-solutions-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sunday-update-and-solutions-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Update and Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to submit an answer 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. We&#8217;ll be back with a contest summary and list of winners later in the week (no later than Sunday the 21st). <\/p>\n<p>Today we will also have a new Sunday Stumper (Anti-Pi Sudoku by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli) as another bonus puzzle which will post in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The past Variety puzzle week of Even Rows and Columns puzzles are collected in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2021\/2021W9-ERC-Puzzles.pdf\">PDF<\/a> and the solutions are in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles2021\/2021W9-ERC-Solutions.pdf\">PDF<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re starting to try releasing the solving videos the day after the puzzle posts, and will continue that this week although the blog entry may not get updated as routinely. So please subscribe to our Youtube channel if you want to always see the latest solution video. For the week, here are the six solving videos:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMPuzzles - 2021\/03\/08 - Yajilin (Even Rows\/Columns) by Ashish Kumar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0maWghprsvA?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\/09 - Battleships (Even Rows\/Columns) by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w_6uM90_TUs?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\/10 - Kuromasu (Even Rows\/Columns) by Prasanna Seshadri\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D7oO5fSTXhE?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\/11 - Slitherlink (Even Rows\/Columns) by John Bulten\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M06srb4uvgQ?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\/12 - Tapa (Even Rows\/Columns) by Grant Fikes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPwDkpG5yic?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\/13 - Statue Park (Even Rows\/Columns) by Murat Can Tonta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bnWjkW3qMdU?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 will feature Tapa puzzles and variations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to submit an answer to Prasanna&#8217;s 200th puzzle submission contest. 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