{"id":6477,"date":"2017-01-06T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2017-01-06T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:02:22","slug":"best-2016-number-placement-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/best-2016-number-placement-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2016: Number Placement Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2016 (excluding Sudoku which is treated as its own category). We posted 28 Number Placement puzzles on the web throughout the year.<\/i><\/p>\n

2016 saw the official addition of Kakuro to our puzzle makeup with a lot of good puzzles. This Kakuro (Double) puzzle<\/a> from Grant Fikes with a Cloverleaf pattern earned a fair number of votes.<\/p>\n

\"Kakuro<\/p>\n

Dr. Sudoku added a Sudoku-like unique digit theme to this Hundred puzzle<\/a>, a style originally created by Vladimir Portugalov. While the style has simple instructions, the intended logical path in this puzzle requires a deduction we haven’t seen in a Hundred puzzle before.<\/p>\n

\"Hundred<\/p>\n

A lot of our best of puzzles this year were part of our patrons weeks, where our authors made requested puzzles from our super grandmaster patrons. This Multi-Skyscrapers variation<\/a> by Serkan Y\u00fcrekli tied for the most votes in the category. <\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

Our best Number Placement Puzzle of 2016 was another Kakuro (Double) puzzle<\/a> from Serkan Y\u00fcrekli which we posted near Valentine’s Day. More Double Kakuro (and other doubled puzzles) will be in the Art of Puzzles 2, including several more gems from Serkan.<\/p>\n

\"Kakuro<\/p>\n

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Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2016 (excluding Sudoku which is treated as its own category). We posted 28 Number Placement puzzles on the web throughout the year. 2016 saw the official addition of Kakuro to our puzzle makeup with a lot of good puzzles. 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