{"id":2921,"date":"2013-12-31T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:05:29","slug":"best-2013-number-placement-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/best-2013-number-placement-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2013: Number Placement Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had 45 Number Placement puzzles in 2013, mostly Skyscrapers and TomTom puzzles but also other styles like Smashed Sums. While variations did rather well in some of the other categories, our favorite Number Placement puzzles were mostly “classic”. <\/p>\n

The one exception was the Even\/Odd Skyscrapers<\/a> from June with only shaded and unshaded cells to get started.<\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

Two other skyscrapers earned a lot of votes as favorites: Mostly Five<\/a>, from March<\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

and Either\/Or<\/a> from February.<\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

The others that fit this category were TomTom puzzles including Triple Play<\/a> from June (also one of the hardest puzzles we’ve posted):<\/p>\n

\"TomTom<\/p>\n

and 1\/3\/13<\/a> from our very first week of puzzles.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom<\/p>\n

While some categories have a clear winner, we’d need another voting parameter to actually choose a winner here. Both Either\/Or and 1\/3\/13 are tied at the top. The five “best” puzzles are grouped together in this PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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