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Hey there!
I'm going to keep it short this time.
Holiday season is here, and I'm really
looking forward to taking it easy for a few
days, which is why I'm now busy creating a
buffer of puzzles. Creating tomorrow's
puzzle used to be the last thing I did before
going to bed, but I've gotten better at
that. Now I usually have a few days of buffer,
though I add the "flavour text" in a
separate pass, often on the previous day. Now my
plan is to have the puzzles and flavour text
done until the end of the year, so I can have a
proper holiday. I hope you'll be able to
have one as well!
Just want to say that it's a lot of fun
making the puzzles, and your amazing feedback
really makes it worth it! So here's again
some bonus puzzles for you!
#1 Easy - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/f9bc2733b847
#2 Medium - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/4a2a57bf2022
#3 Tricky - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/1b9f3ebdf0eb
#4 Evil - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/b36c91f84ef9
And here's last week's puzzles and
statistics (top 1% / 10% / 50% solve times, and
% of completions without mistakes/hints, and %
of completion without hints). I've had a
critical look at the top 1% times, and I believe
they are quite accurate. I'm pretty proud
of the achieved difficulty curve last week, even
if Monday does stick out like a sore thumb! And
perhaps Sunday should have been rated as an Evil
puzzle... (unlike last newsletter's Evil
puzzle, which turned out to be quite easy.
Oops!)
Mon 2025-12-08 (Easy): 2m 8s / 3m 21s / 6m 12s / 36% / 61%
Tue 2025-12-09 (Medium): 1m 51s / 2m 43s / 4m 47s / 27% / 82%
Wed 2025-12-10 (Medium): 2m 40s / 3m 59s / 7m 6s / 35% / 74%
Thu 2025-12-11 (Tricky): 2m 48s / 4m 21s / 8m 11s / 37% / 71%
Fri 2025-12-12 (Hard): 3m 18s / 5m 20s / 10m 0s / 22% / 60%
Sat 2025-12-13 (Hard): 3m 51s / 6m 47s / 14m 16s / 8% / 47%
Sun 2025-12-14 (Hard): 4m 22s / 8m 7s / 16m 50s / 22% / 43%
If you're looking for more, just a
reminder that the Puzzle Pack #2 is available
here: https://cluesbysam.com/s/packs.html
That's it for today! Have a nice
week!
-Sam
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