{"id":7563,"date":"2018-01-11T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2019-01-01T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T02:44:09","slug":"best-2017-looppath-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/best-2017-looppath-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2017: Loop\/Path Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Here are our best Loop\/Path puzzles of 2017, a style which was featured in 30 posts in 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta brought us our first top loop puzzle, <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/yajilin-murat-can-tonta-3\/>a Yajlin<\/a>, with a fun logical solving path.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/170414-Yajilin-MCTb.png\" alt=\"Yajilin by Murat Can Tonta\"><\/p>\n<p>Guest contributor Walker Anderson picked up his third &#8220;best of&#8230;&#8221; award with this easy and elegant <a href=https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/slitherlink-walker-anderson-2\/>Slitherlink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/170206-Slitherlink-FourSquares.png\" alt=\"Slitherlink by Walker Anderson\"><\/p>\n<p>The best &#8220;Loop&#8221; puzzle of 2017 pulled out a lot of the stops, as a super-sized combination of four different styles. 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