{"id":32466,"date":"2025-05-26T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=32466"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:56:11","slug":"numberlink-by-grant-fikes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/numberlink-by-grant-fikes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Numberlink by Grant Fikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Grant Fikes’ 38th birthday, and he has created this Numberlink as a gift to share as a special challenge before today’s other posts.<\/em><\/p>\n

As a second gift, Grant wants to share six subscriptions to his <\/em>Outside the Fox Puzzles<\/a> (a mainly word puzzles series but with one logic puzzle per week as well). Send a picture \/ screenshot of the completed puzzle to hiddencontest@gmpuzzles.com<\/a> before 9 AM PT May 28 (Wednesday) to be entered in a random drawing to win a subscription.<\/del> Contest is now closed and winners being notified.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Numberlink<\/p>\n

(view directly for a larger image)<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

or solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X\u2019s)<\/p>\n

Theme:<\/b> 38 Years<\/p>\n

Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 506th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Grant Fikes.<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/b> Connect each pair of identical numbers with a path passing through edge-adjacent cells. No cell may be used on more than one path.<\/p>\n

Difficulty:<\/b> 3 stars<\/p>\n

Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> Grandmaster = 6:30, Master = 10:00, Expert = 20:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Solution:<\/b> PDF<\/a> and solving animation of possible path<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Follow this link for other Numberlink puzzles<\/a> and this link for other Loop\/Path puzzles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note 2:<\/b>\u00a0Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our\u00a0General Blog Puzzle Discussion post<\/a>\u00a0on the GMPuzzles Discord. Not a member of the Discord? Click\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0for basic access and check subscriber instructions for role-related access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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