{"id":2936,"date":"2014-01-03T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:05:04","slug":"best-2013-region-division-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/best-2013-region-division-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2013: Region Division Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fillomino and Cave are the two major Region Division styles we have here at GMPuzzles, and 2013 saw 39 puzzles across this space. The favorites here span the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Fillominoes formed many of your most favorite puzzles. While it was one of the more recent puzzles, Grant&#8217;s <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/foxgers-den-75-fillomino\/>28-dice opus #8<\/a> received a good ratio of fave votes to solves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/131224-Fillomino-28No8.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Grant Fikes\"><\/p>\n<p>In July, after Palmer debuted as a contributor here, his seventh puzzle with an <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/this-is-a-melon-puzzle-7-fillomino\/>Antisymmetric Ones<\/a> theme received your votes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/130718-Fillomino-1s.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Palmer Mebane\"><\/p>\n<p>And perhaps because of the challenge (our hard puzzles seem to be more favored than our easier ones), <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/dr-sudoku-prescribes-60-fillomino\/>Squeeze Play<\/a> from March also made the final cut.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/blog\/GM-Fillomino3-Nths.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Thomas Snyder\"><\/p>\n<p>These two cave puzzles slightly edged out Fillomino at the very top this year though. <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/dr-sudoku-prescribes-23-cave\/>Almost Perfect 10?<\/a> from our initial release of Cave puzzles got high marks. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/blog\/GM-Cave3-eNgq.png\" alt=\"Cave by Thomas Snyder\"><\/p>\n<p>But the Region Division Puzzle with the most votes was this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/dr-sudoku-prescribes-71-cave-product\/>Cave (Product)<\/a> variation from early April. We&#8217;ll certainly see if we can provide more of this Product variety in the future.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/130405-Cave-Product.png\" alt=\"Cave by Thomas Snyder\"><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find all these puzzles grouped in this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/2013-BestRegDiv.pdf>PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fillomino and Cave are the two major Region Division styles we have here at GMPuzzles, and 2013 saw 39 puzzles across this space. The favorites here span the calendar year. Standard Fillominoes formed many of your most favorite puzzles. 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