{"id":2366,"date":"2013-11-17T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2021-12-25T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T21:44:03","slug":"sunday-surprise-9-matryoshka-fillomino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/sunday-surprise-9-matryoshka-fillomino\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Surprise #9 &#8211; Matryoshka Fillomino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s surprise comes from Nikolai Beluhov, a graduate student of mathematical logic who has been sharing some creative puzzle ideas with me recently. Some of them have ended up on his new puzzle blog <a href=http:\/\/nbpuzzles.wordpress.com\/>Puzzled By Titles<\/a>. This puzzle has become a Sunday Surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Much like a set of Matryoshka dolls, this Fillomino is a puzzle with many layers. Remove the outer border and a new valid Fillomino arises. Keep doing this all the way down to the very center where a 2&#215;2 puzzle awaits. The layers have a wide variety of difficulty and required logical strategies. Can you solve them all?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/MatryoshkaFillomino.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Nikolai Beluhov\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/MatryoshkaFillomino.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/131117Matry>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between a composite mode for line\/edge drawing and a number entry mode.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Matryoshka (nesting property) across 5 puzzles<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/fillomino-rules-and-info\/\" \/>Fillomino<\/a> rules.<\/p>\n<p><b>Answer String:<\/b> For each puzzle from largest (10&#215;10) to smallest (2&#215;2), enter the numbers placed in each cell along the upper-left to lower-right diagonal in order. Separate each puzzle&#8217;s entry by a comma (Your answer will be of the form AAAAAAAAAA,BBBBBBBB,CCCCCC,DDDD,EE).<\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/MatryoshkaFillomino-soln.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Follow this link for other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/fillomino+classic\/\">classic Fillomino<\/a> and this link for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/fillomino+variation-2\/\">variations on Fillomino puzzles<\/a>. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/fillomino+classic+mondaytuesday\/>easiest Fillomino puzzles<\/a> to get started on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s surprise comes from Nikolai Beluhov, a graduate student of mathematical logic who has been sharing some creative puzzle ideas with me recently. Some of them have ended up on his new puzzle blog Puzzled By Titles. 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