{"id":4502,"date":"2015-01-02T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2017-01-06T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:44:31","slug":"best-2014-region-division-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/best-2014-region-division-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2014: Region Division Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Region Division puzzles made up a total of 64 posts, and had some of the highest rankings of all of our puzzles making this an incredibly tight category.<\/p>\n<p>One puzzle with a very high FAVE\/solver ratio was this creative <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/araf-serkan-yurekli-2\/>&#8220;Infinity!&#8221; Araf from Serkan Y\u00fcrekli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/140705-Araf-Infinity.png\" alt=\"Araf by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli\" width=500><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(view image directly for larger form)<\/p>\n<p>While many of our best Cave puzzles were contained in our ebooks this year, <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/cave-product-thomas-snyder\/>Thomas Snyder&#8217;s Product Cave<\/a> from January garnered a lot of Favorite votes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/140125-CaveMult-ESlash.png\" alt=\"Cave by Thomas Snyder\"><\/p>\n<p>Fillomino puzzles closed out our favorites of 2014. Arguably the best puzzle of the year was a giant Fillomino &#8220;Dear John&#8221; from Grant Fikes that went out to our patrons in April; these votes just cover our web puzzles though.<\/p>\n<p>Tapio Saarinen made a <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/fillomino-tapio-saarinen\/>cute Fillomino<\/a> out of just tiny digits:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/141007-Fillomino-SmallNumbers.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Tapio Saarinen\"><\/p>\n<p>Guest contributor Robert Vollmert created a really challenging <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/fillomino-checkered-robert-vollmert\/>Checkered Fillomino<\/a> with some interesting discoveries inside as well:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/141206-FillCheck-RV.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Robert Vollmert\"><\/p>\n<p>Closing out the best Region Division puzzles of 2014 were a pair of Cipher Fillomino from Palmer Mebane. 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Quoting from his email that submitted these two: &#8220;This is not really a return; just a couple good ideas that were too good (in my head) to leave undone.&#8221; While <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/fillomino-cipher-palmer-mebane-2\/>Tic-Tac-Toe<\/a> got a lot of Fave votes, the <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/fillomino-cipher-palmer-mebane\/>C Major<\/a> theme earned the most for Region Division puzzles and tied (with the TomTomTom and a puzzle to be named tomorrow) for Puzzle of the Year:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/141101-Fillomino-CMajor.png\" alt=\"Fillomino by Palmer Mebane\"><\/p>\n<p>These best puzzles have been gathered in this <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/2014-BestRegDiv.pdf>PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region Division puzzles made up a total of 64 posts, and had some of the highest rankings of all of our puzzles making this an incredibly tight category. 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