{"id":24923,"date":"2023-07-11T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:46:05","slug":"welcome-to-gmpuzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/welcome-to-gmpuzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to GMPuzzles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this site, and with our partners, we showcase &#8220;The Art of Puzzles&#8221;, with hand-crafted logic puzzles by the best puzzle designers for all who love puzzles. If you&#8217;re new to logic games, you might want to start with the daily puzzles we share through partners like LinkedIn (where our founder Thomas Snyder is the Principal Puzzlemaster), including <a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/games\/mini-sudoku\/>Mini Sudoku (6&#215;6)<\/a>, <a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/games\/queens\/>Queens<\/a>, <a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/games\/tango\/>Tango<\/a>, and <a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/games\/zip\/>Zip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On this blog we share many other games and a broader range of difficulties. We organize into the categories of Sudoku, Number Placement, Object Placement, Shading, Region Division, and Loop\/Path puzzles with tags on each post to find the easiest\/hardest within particular styles. There are also many puzzles in our subscriptions and books so check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.gmpuzzles.com\/\">Store<\/a> for more details and to support our puzzlemakers.<\/li>\n<p>New to the site and to logic puzzles besides Sudoku? Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tapa-intro\/\">web intro to Tapa<\/a>, a great shading puzzle invented by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli, our managing editor, with example walkthrough and a curated set of puzzles from our archive. 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