{"id":681,"date":"2013-02-24T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:28:52","slug":"the-doctor-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-doctor-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor is In?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last week was a week at sea for the solvers with Battleships and Battleship Sudoku. It was also my first week at SEA(ttle). And while it already feels like home I have a lot of apartment set-up to do still, and a growing pile of work as I take time to buy and build furniture.<\/p>\n<p>My most observant solvers may have noticed I&#8217;ve been following particular genres in YRBGW order so far with my puzzle styles. If you don&#8217;t know what I mean, search the website a bit more. But I hate being predictable. I wrote a <a href=http:\/\/motris.livejournal.com\/58307.html>championship &#8220;Trophy&#8221; sudoku puzzle<\/a> once with a first row ?2345678?. My occasional partner in puzzle-solving crime, Wei-Hwa Huang, saw that pattern and thought it was as likely that I would do 923456781 in a competition as 123456789 just to be sneaky. This week, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;ll just flip a coin to determine what I&#8217;ll post of the remaining options so you can&#8217;t possibly know better than 50:50 what puzzle type is coming. Or maybe that last sentence is a lie. Or maybe every other sentence in this paragraph is a lie. In all honesty, there are no hidden puzzles in this paragraph. But there are two more puzzle styles to come this week: a familiar sudoku style from me and Wei-Hwa, and whichever of &#8220;heads&#8221; or &#8220;tails&#8221; wins the coin toss today.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;m going to start hiding the solving times behind a spoiler tag. 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