{"id":9126,"date":"2019-01-11T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:33:39","slug":"best-of-2018-number-placement-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/best-of-2018-number-placement-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2018: Number Placement Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are our best Number Placement puzzles of 2018, selected from the 50 web posts in this category:<\/i><\/p>\n

We haven’t had many puzzles from Palmer Mebane recently (in part it seems he mostly constructs for World Puzzle Championship preparation), but this WPC prep puzzle — Skyscrapers (with Sum Baskets)<\/a> — has a very elegant logical solving path that our solvers appreciated.<\/p>\n

\"Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

Regular contributor and grandmaster Grant Fikes shared this Kakuro (Gapped)<\/a> puzzle that also earned a good number of FAVE votes.<\/p>\n

\"Kakuro<\/p>\n

Murat Can Tonta won another best of award for this Thermo-Skyscrapers<\/a> combination which, like some prior examples, avoided needing to give any given numbers to get its logical solution going. The presence of only three short thermos outside the grid was a cute new twist on this style.<\/p>\n

\"Thermo-Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

Our runaway winner in the category though, and the runner-up for Best Puzzle of 2018, was this TomTom (Mystery)<\/a> written by Thomas Snyder as his 300th post here on the site. [Breaking third-person self reference:] While I haven’t had the chance to write as many puzzles this year, focusing more on editing, it was great to receive recognition from so many of you for this milestone puzzle.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom<\/p>\n

(view directly for a larger image)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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