{"id":5347,"date":"2015-12-01T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2022-08-16T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:42:02","slug":"word-connection-by-serkan-yurekli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/word-connection-by-serkan-yurekli\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Connection by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/151201-WordConnection-Week.png\" alt=\"Word Connection by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/151201-WordConnection-Week.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/151201Week>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between lineox mode where left click+drag draws lines and left click in a square marks O and X, and a Letter entry mode.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Days of the Week<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 87th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Y\u00fcrekli.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Place the words into the grid (one letter per cell) so that they do not touch each other, not even diagonally, and so that they can be read in a straight line in a vertical or horizontal direction. Some letters in the words are already given in the grid. Then find a path that passes through every cell of the grid, starting with the first letter of the first word, passing through the words in order from their first letters to their last letters, and ending at the last letter of the last word. <\/p>\n<p>Or see this example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/WordConnection-Ex.png\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer String:<\/b> Enter the number of turns the path takes between each of the words in order as a single string of numbers. (Ignore turns in cells with letters.) The answer for this example is \u201c224\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><b>Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color:white;background-color:white;\">Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 3:00, Expert = 6:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/151201-WordConnection-Week-soln.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDF or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between lineox mode where left click+drag draws lines and left click in a square marks O and X, and a Letter entry mode.) Theme: Days of the Week Author\/Opus: This is the 87th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Y\u00fcrekli. 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