{"id":2292,"date":"2013-10-28T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2015-03-29T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T06:28:06","slug":"doctors-note-this-week-book-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/doctors-note-this-week-book-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor’s Note: This Week\/Book Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our contributing puzzlemaster Palmer Mebane for his dominant performance throughout the general competition at the recent World Puzzle Championship. Over the coming weeks we will post several of the puzzles Palmer wrote before the WPC as practice here, which should show you the dedication a puzzle champion must have to his craft.<\/p>\n

As we get back into a regular schedule, you can find the set of puzzles we posted over the last two weeks gathered in this PDF<\/a>. Here are the puzzles you can expect from Monday to Saturday this week (highlight to view):
\nMonday – Yajilin by Grant Fikes
\nTuesday – Fillomino by Grant Fikes
\nWednesday – Sudoku Variation by Thomas Snyder
\nThursday – Star Battle by Thomas Snyder
\nFriday – Cross the Streams by Grant Fikes
\nSaturday – Smashed Sums Variation by Palmer Mebane<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that the WPC is over, our focus is back on finishing our large book project “The Art of Puzzles”. This has taken awhile to put together as it has grown to be an over 250 puzzle title, with at least 25 puzzles in 10 different styles (Tapa, Nurikabe, Masyu, Slitherlink, TomTom, Skyscrapers, Fillomino, Cave, Star Battle, and Battleships). We have almost two dozen authors represented from around the world, including all of our contributing puzzlemasters to varying degrees. Grant Fikes deserves particular credit for the high quantity and quality of the puzzles he has provided (about 20%, basically tied with Dr. Sudoku) including many very large grids. One special treat is that the Tapa section was written entirely by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli, the originator of the style and a true Tapa Master. You’ll definitely appreciate some of the surprises he packed into his puzzles. Some of the last tasks to do on the book now are to gather and write a really good set of hint\/tutorial sections for the puzzles which may go into the book or may just end up online as an extra supplement. We are also looking through different printing and binding options and expect to offer both print and electronic forms of the book on release. Look for more announcements on “The Art of Puzzles” here soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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