{"id":4482,"date":"2014-12-31T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2017-01-06T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:45:19","slug":"best-2014-object-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/best-2014-object-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2014: Object Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had 47 Object Placement puzzles (Star Battle and Battleships and other variations) this year.<\/p>\n

The best Battleships puzzle was “Solved?” by Bram de Laat<\/a> where a fleet of seas obeys the outside clues. Definitely one of the most original themes we had this year.<\/p>\n

\"Battleships<\/p>\n

We’ve had a bunch of Pentomino placement puzzles and the highest rated was this Pentomino Minesweeper by Thomas Snyder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Pentomino<\/p>\n

There have been a lot of highly rated Star Battles this year. While it has not yet gotten a lot of solvers since it was posted just two weeks ago, guest contributor Carl Worth’s “Star Duel”<\/a> has already earned a good number of FAVE votes.<\/p>\n

\"Star<\/p>\n

(View image directly for larger form)<\/p>\n

Not a lot of Monday\/Tuesday puzzles got recognized this year with “best” ratings, but Zolt\u00e1n Horv\u00e1th’s Pentominoes<\/a> theme fit the bill. (Full disclosure: Ji\u0159\u00ed Hrdina independently sent us a puzzle with this same theme earlier without Zolt\u00e1n knowing. This puzzle was released this year as part of <\/i>The Art of Puzzles book; Ji\u0159\u00ed’s Pentomino Star Battle would have probably earned a lot of FAVEs too if it had been on the web and not a book puzzle.)<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Star<\/p>\n

The Best Object Placement puzzle of 2014 however went to a medium Star Battle with a very visual theme: “Man Made Out of Stars” theme by Thomas Snyder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Star<\/p>\n

These best puzzles have been gathered in this PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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