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Here are our best Shading puzzles of 2016, now our second most frequent category behind Loop\/Path with 50 posts this past year.<\/i><\/p>\n

Leading off this list was an Easy as LITS variation<\/a> from Serkan that had a super high FAVE\/solve ratio as a patron bonus puzzle. [Note: this is one of two supporter bonuses to win a Best Of award this year, but they’ll stay blurred on this site for non-patrons.] <\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/a><\/p>\n

Prasanna was our shading puzzle master this year, including this surprise of a Nurikabe variation<\/a> prepared as practice for the WPC with a clean logical theme.<\/p>\n

\"Nurikabe<\/p>\n

Prasanna also created a new Nanro variation “by accident” this year, which we call Nanro (Signpost). This early Spiral-themed example<\/a> was well reviewed.<\/p>\n

\"Nanro<\/p>\n

But the two best shading puzzles of this year were a kind of call and response from Prasanna and our audience, based around a “Windows” variation Prasanna experimented with. This Tapa<\/a> in particular got high scores from the Windows week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Tapa<\/p>\n

And then inspired guest contributor Jack Lance to make another version<\/a>, this time with overlapping windows.<\/p>\n

\"Tapa<\/p>\n

Basically tied in votes and clearly connected in origin, these Tapa (Windows) together are the best Shading Puzzle of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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