Starting in June 2009 I began a weekly posting of new puzzle ideas (some similar to those in books I've written, others much more experimental) on my blog. I hope to get to 100 or more weeks in this series (ETA: After 183, I shifted my puzzle blogging to Grandmaster Puzzles). Here are links to all of those postings. Any comments or suggestions you have about these puzzles or desires to reproduce them in any form in another publication should be sent to Thomas Snyder. For other puzzles I've written, click here.
Week 183 (12/28/12): #1 Fan Arrow Sudoku
Week 182 (12/21/12): 24Hour Magic Order - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 181 (12/14/12): 24hour Skyscraper - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 180 (12/07/12): 24hour Sudoku - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 179 (11/30/12): Black 24 - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 178 (11/23/12): 24hour Star Battle - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 177 (11/16/12): 24hour Battleships - from 24H Puzzle Competition round by Team USA
Week 176 (11/09/12): Arlington Sudoku Tournament Puzzles
Week 175 (11/02/12): Sudoku - a beautiful but "too hard to be used in competition" sudoku - one of my favorites
Week (24+24/24)*(2+4)+24 (10/26/12): Multiplicative Corral - with 24 theme
Week 173 (10/19/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - More Artful Sudoku - 3 more classic sudoku
Week 172 (10/12/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - Classic Sudoku - hard puzzle with interesting narrow solving path
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/05/12): Neighbour Cards practice puzzle from round 11 of WPC
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/05/12): Rural Tourism practice puzzle from round 11 of WPC
Week 171 (10/05/12): US Team Logo puzzle - from our shirts at WPC/WSC in Croatia
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/04/12): Black 21 practice puzzle from round 2 of WPC
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/04/12): Sum 21 practice puzzle from round 2 of WPC
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/04/12): Domino Hunt practice puzzle from round 1 of WPC
(NotFridayPuzzle) (10/03/12): Let Me Point The Way - Classic Sudoku that uses one logical step a lot, demonstrating something you only really get by hand-crafting
Week 170 (09/28/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - "Mutant Sudoku Sampler" - Isodoku, Tight Fit, Thermo Sudoku
Week 169 (09/21/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - Triple Double Sudoku
Week 168 (09/14/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - Killer and Arrow Sudoku
Week 167 (09/07/12): US Sudoku Qualifier - Irregular and Non-consecutive Sudoku
Week 166 (08/31/12): USPC Victory Fillomino - celebrating my 6th title with a record score of 426 points
Week 165 (08/24/12): USPC Preview Puzzles - Multiplicative Corral (Even theme) and Pentahouses I created as practice puzzles for USPC on 8/25.
Week 164 (08/17/12): It's in the Bag - USPC preview puzzle like Inside/Outside Corral from 2009
Week 163 (08/10/12): Rectangles - also with another world event flavor
Week 162 (08/03/12): Nurikabe - with another world event flavor
Week 161 (07/27/12): No matter how you SLICY it - Hexagonal LITS variant on interesting grid
Week 160 (07/20/12): Extreme Spelunking - Cave puzzle that goes to 11
Week 159 (07/13/12): Tetromino Battleships
Week 158 (07/06/12): Surplus (Sudoku and Surplus Sudoku) - not from IPC
Week 157 (06/29/12): Coded TomTom - from IPC
Week 156 (06/22/12): Sudoku and Surplus Sudoku - from IPC
Week 155 (06/15/12): Battleships - regular and tetromino variation from IPC
Week 154 (06/08/12): IPC TomTom
Week 153 (06/01/12): Not IPC TomTom
Week 152 (05/25/12): BIST-inspired Irregular Sudoku
Week 151 (05/18/12): UK Thermo-Sudoku
Week 150 (05/11/12): UK Arrow Sudoku
Week 149 (05/04/12): Star Battle
Week 148 (04/27/12): Nonconsecutive Sudoku
Week 147 (04/20/12): The Art of Sudoku Sampler
Week 146 (04/13/12): Thermo-Sudoku
Week 145 (04/06/12): 04/06/12 TomTom
Week 144 (03/30/12): Make Room for Pentapa
Week 143 (03/23/12): The Art of Sudoku - Samples #3 and #4
Week 142 (03/16/12): Make Room for Tapa - DD part 5
Week 141 (03/09/12): The Art of Sudoku - Sample #2
Week 140 (03/02/12): Big Tent Party - DD part 4
Week 139 (02/24/12): SVPF Youth Sudoku
Week 138 (02/17/12): SVPF TomTom Puzzles
Week 137 (02/10/12): SVPF Killer Sudoku
Week 136 (02/03/12): SVPF Adult Sudoku Tournament Puzzles
Week 135 (01/27/12): Loop the Loops - DD part 8
Week 134 (01/20/12): The Art of Sudoku - Sample #1
Week 133 (01/13/12): Low-clue Killer Sudoku
Week 132b (01/06/12): A Modest Proposal - for one person, the Holiday Hunt hid a sudoku-based wedding proposal
Week 132 (12/23/11): Holiday Hunt - a four part puzzle hunt for my fans - see here for summary/answers.
Week 131 (12/16/11): Turning Points - DD part 7
Week 130 (12/9/11): Cave - DD part 2
Week 129 (12/2/11): Almost Simple Loop - DD part 9
Week 128 (11/25/11): Victory Arrow Sudoku - Marking my third world sudoku title
Week 127 (11/18/11): Battleship Sudoku - DD part 10
Week 126 (11/11/11): Arlington Sudoku Tournament Puzzles - 4 classic sudoku of average to hard difficulty.
Week 125 (11/4/11): Gapped Number Fill - DD part 6
Week 124 (10/28/11): Star Battle - DD part 3
Week 123 (10/21/11): TomTom Puzzles - DD part 1
Week 122 (10/7/11): Double Dip - a preview TomTom and Almost Simple Loop for my Double Decathlon test
Week 121b (9/30/11): 1-9 Fillomino
Week 121 (9/30/11): Jumping Crossnumber
Week 120 (9/23/11): US Sudoku Qualifier Puzzles - Many classics and variants
Week 119 (9/16/11): USA Thermo-Sudoku - a puzzle announcing the forthcoming US Sudoku Championship
Week 118 (9/9/11): Arrow Sudoku
Week 117 (9/2/11): Only Five TomTom - TomTom puzzles with blank cells
Week 116b (8/26/11): Hopper - USPC Preview Puzzle
Week 116a (8/26/11): Dynasty Sudoku - USPC Preview Puzzle
Week 115 (8/19/11): Loop the Loops - Masyu/Slitherlink Hybrid, part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 114 (8/12/11): The Count's Count - Counting and Spot the Differences Puzzles, part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 113 (8/5/11): Momentum Maze - Logic Maze, part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 112 (7/29/11): Pentominoes - part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 111 (7/22/11): Consecutive Kakuro - part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 110 (7/15/11): Across or Down? Here or There? - Crisscross, part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 109 (7/8/11): Better Know your Battleships - part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 108 (7/1/11): Star Search - Word Search variant, part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 107 (6/24/11): Corral - part of "Better Know the USPC" series
Week 106 (6/17/11): IPC Puzzles - Battleship and Numberlink variants from the Indian Puzzle Championship
Week 105 (6/10/11): Mystery TomTom for 6/10
Week 104 (6/3/11): Nonconsecutive Sudoku - with just two different given digits
Week 103 (5/27/11): Towed Battleships
Week 102 (5/20/11): Slitherline
Week 101 (5/13/11): Pentomino Shikaku
Week 100 (5/6/11): Another Milestone - 6 interlinked puzzles
Week 99 (4/29/11): If 6 was 9 ... - Kakuro variant
Week 98 (4/22/11): Tetromino Minesweeper
Week 97 (4/15/11): Outside Sudoku
Week 96 (4/8/11): Arrow Sudoku
Week 95 (4/1/11): The Voice of Reason (Audiobook KENKEN)
Week 94 (3/25/11): Borderlines
Week 93 (3/18/11): Median Link
Week 92 (3/11/11): Turning Points
Week 91 (3/4/11): Make Room for More Tapa
Week 90 (2/25/11): Thermo-Sudoku
Week 89 (2/18/11): Make Room for Tapa
Week 88 (2/11/11): Chaotic Calcu-doku - a new TomTom variation with unfixed number sets
Week 87 (2/4/11): Tournament Sudoku - puzzles from the 5th Silicon Valley Puzzle Fest Tournament
Week 86 (1/28/11): Digit Battleships
Week 85 (1/21/11): Nurikabe
Week 84 (1/14/11): Konkat-kuro - a revisitation of an earlier MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle
Week 83 (1/7/11): Mystery Puzzle - a new kind of puzzle, with no written instructions
Week 82 (12/31/10): 20x11 Countdown Fillomino
Week 81 (12/24/10): A 12/24 TomTom
Week 80 (12/17/10): A Booster Shot - more Star Battle and Shikaku
Week 79 (12/10/10): A Shot of Shikaku
Week 78 (12/3/10): Star Battle
Week 77 (11/26/10): Tetris Sudoku - a type in Sudoku Masterpieces
Week 76 (11/19/10): Numberlink
Week 75 (11/12/10): To Everything, Tern(ary), Tern(ary), Tern(ary) - apparent "ternary" TomTom puzzles
Week 74 (11/5/10): Arrow Sudoku
Week 73 (10/29/10): Nonconsecutive Sudoku
Week 72 (10/22/10): Thermo-Sudoku
Week 71 (10/15/10): Shape Nurikabe
Week 70 (10/8/10): Heyawake
Week 69 (10/1/10): Map puzzles - from BANG 23
Week 68 (9/24/10): Kenword - from BANG 23
Week 67 (9/17/10): Nurikabe
Week 66 (9/10/10): LITS
Week 65 (9/3/10): Skyscrapers
Week 64 (8/27/10): Shikaku and Masyu
Week 63 (8/20/10): Route and Sukazu (USPC preview puzzles)
Week 62 (8/13/10): Polish Pentomino Crisscross
Week 61 (8/6/10): Double Murder Nos. ?,?
Week 60 (7/30/10): (h) ORu KakurOh!
Week 59 (7/23/10): Wolves and Sheep and Wolves in Sheep's Clothing in Fences
Week 58 (7/16/10): Camping Criss-cross
Week 57 (7/9/10): Two by Four Winds
Week 56 (7/2/10): TomTom Puzzle
Week 55 (6/25/10): Stained Glass Sudoku, a type in Sudoku Masterpieces
Week 54 (6/18/10): Almost Simple Loops
Week 53 (6/11/10): Yajilin
Week 52 (6/4/10): Akari
Week 51 (5/28/10): Nurikabe
Week 50 (5/21/10): Digital Pent By Number
Week 49 (5/14/10): Sorry, Thomas - an article on Hitori and Minimal Hitori
Week 48 (5/7/10): Italian Sudoku Championship Puzzles
Week 47 (4/30/10): Dragon Sudoku
Week 46 (4/23/10): Product Last-Digit Arrow Sudoku
Week 45 (4/16/10): Just One Cell Sudoku
Week 44 (4/9/10): Sudoku Variations - Star Sudoku and Four Square Sudoku, puzzles almost in Sudoku Masterpieces
Week 43 (4/1/10): Sudoku MADNESS Edition - puzzles that mostly didn't appear on the Czech National Championship/US Qualifying Test
Week 42 (3/26/10): Special Number Set TomTom Puzzles
Week 41 (3/19/10): 2010 Hashiwokakero
Week 40 (3/12/10): 2010 Kakuro
Week 39 (3/5/10): 2010 Numberlink
Week 38 (2/26/10): 2010 Sudoku
Week 37 (2/19/10): 2010 Heyawake
Week 36 (2/12/10): 2010 Masyu
Week 35 (2/5/10): 2010 Yajilin
Week 34 (1/29/10): 2010 Shikaku
Week 33 (1/22/10): 2010 Block Puzzle
Week 32 (1/15/10): 2010 Nurikabe
Week 31 (1/8/10): 2010 LITS
Week 30 (1/1/10): New Year's Slitherlink
Week 29 (12/25/09): SudokuCup - More Examples - Sudo-Kurve, Outside Sudoku, Thermo-Sudoku
Week 28 (12/18/09): SudokuCup - More Examples - Classic, Consecutive, Non-Consecutive Sudoku
Week 27 (12/11/09): SudokuCup Examples - Isosudoku, S as in Sudoku
Week 26 (12/4/09): Arrow Sudoku - SudokuCup3 Example Puzzle
Week 25 (11/27/09): No Puzzle? - just a list of people and events I'm thankful for I guess....
Week 24 (11/20/09): Multi-Operation Calcu-Doku
Week 23 (11/13/09): The Number 23 - Introduction of Multi-Operation Calcu-Doku
Week 22 (11/6/09): Color Puzzle Sampler 2 - mix of Nonconsecutive Sudoku, Nurikabe, and Four Winds
Week 21 (10/30/09): Extra Region Sudoku
Week 20 (10/23/09): Lost in Translation - more Extra Space Sudoku (see week 1), a type in my book Mutant Sudoku
Week 19 (10/16/09): Wacky Heyawake
Week 18 (10/9/09): Battleship Fillomino
Week 17 (10/2/09): Kakuro Twins
Week 16 (9/25/09): Tile Crosswords
Week 15 (9/18/09): (Not So?) Grate Calcudoku
Week 14 (9/11/09): The River Wild - an irregular Heyawake puzzle
Week 13 (9/4/09): Digital Pent By Number
Week 12 (8/28/09): Battleship Sudoku - marking the three year anniversary of my career as a puzzle author
Week 11 (8/21/09): Somewhat Clueless Calcudoku
Week 10 (8/14/09): Nurikabe
Week 9 (8/7/09): White Pearl, Black Pearl, ... - Alternating circle Masyu variation
Week 8 (7/31/09): Color Nikoli Sampler - combination of Nurikabe, Shikaku, and Slitherlink
Week 7 (7/24/09): Samurai Numberlink
Week 6 (7/17/09): 3-D Sudoku - a type in my books Mutant Sudoku
Week 5 (7/10/09): Arrow Sudoku - a type in my book Sudoku Masterpieces
Week 4 (7/3/09): Mystery Puzzle also a Bonus: Vwllss Cbc Crsswrd
Week 3 (6/26/09): Inside-Outside Corral
Week 2 (6/19/09): Yajilin-Battleship
Week 1 (6/12/09): Extra Space Sudoku - a type in my book Mutant Sudoku
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