{"id":5438,"date":"2016-01-03T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:50:29","slug":"best-of-2015-number-placement-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/best-of-2015-number-placement-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015: Number Placement Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2015 (excluding Sudoku which is treated as its own category).<\/i><\/p>\n

Creating a complete puzzle taxonomy is challenging. Here at GMPuzzles we limit ourselves to just five logic puzzle categories, but that means our “number” placement term may seem a misnomer when you see logic puzzles with letters or words like our first winner here. At GMPuzzles, whenever a transformation of letters into numbers or other symbols could leave a fundamentally identical puzzle, we consider “Number Placement” to be the proper categorization. That said, this recent Scrabble variant from Murat Can Tonta<\/a> — despite not yet having a lot of solvers — got a lot of Faves in December.<\/p>\n

\"Scrabble<\/p>\n

Our remaining “best” puzzles in this category are more obviously number<\/i> placement puzzles; all received approximately the same number of votes. First is a classic Skyscrapers puzzle from Tom Collyer<\/a> with a great solving path.<\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

This Skyscrapers (Sum) variant by Thomas Snyder<\/a>, part of a New Year’s week highlighting 2014 –> 2015, also received a lot of votes.<\/p>\n

\"Sum<\/p>\n

Finally, this Kakuro (Hex) from Serkan Y\u00fcrekli<\/a> was another of our best Number Placement puzzles of 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Kakuro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2015 (excluding Sudoku which is treated as its own category). Creating a complete puzzle taxonomy is challenging. Here at GMPuzzles we limit ourselves to just five logic puzzle categories, but that means our “number” placement term may seem a misnomer when you see logic puzzles with letters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[35,81,142],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof","tag-skyscrapers-2","tag-bestof","tag-kakuro"],"yoast_head":"\nBest of 2015: Number Placement Puzzles - The Art of Puzzles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are the Best Number Placement puzzles of 2015 from Grandmaster Puzzles, as rated by our many devoted solvers. 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