Author: Eliza

Introduction

The Sanrio / Hello Kitty Collab returns to North America and comes with a measly 5 Magic Stone price tag. This lower cost enables players to potentially roll more liberally but the largest benefit is using 6* GFE as Trade Fodder. This is wonderful as many other events demand 7* GFE and it is possible players may be swimming in copious amounts of Trade Fodder. With that being said, players should always keep at least 2 copies of any given card as there is always the chance that GungHo will release powerful new evolutions.

While the 6 and 7-star rarity cards do not feature Weapon Assists , the bottom rarity does for almost every card. This can help offset the pain of rolling a Gold egg but at the same time, may make some of the higher rarity cards not as useful if you cannot take advantage of them

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Theme: 2×3 Boxes

Author/Opus: This is the 66th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster JinHoo Ahn.

Rules: (Hybrid of Fillomino and Snake Puzzles.) Divide the grid along the boundary lines so that every cell belongs to a snake. A snake is a one-cell-wide path at least two cells long that does not touch itself, not even diagonally. Circled cells must be at one of the ends of a snake. A snake may contain one circled cell, two circled cells, or no circled cells at all. Numbered cells must be part of a snake with a length of exactly that number of

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Theme: Cross the Streams

Author/Opus: This is the 249th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.

Rules: Standard Kakuro Rules. Also, some cells may remain empty but empty cells cannot share an edge with other empty cells.

Difficulty: 5 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 15:30, Master = 20:00, Expert = 40:00

Solution: To be posted on our next puzzle post once live.

Note: Follow this link for other Kakuro puzzles. More Kakuro puzzles can be found in Kakuro and Variations by Serkan Yürekli and in The Art of Puzzles 2.

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Theme: Parity Lines

Author/Opus: This is the 7th puzzle from guest contributor R. Kumaresan.

Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.

Difficulty: 2.5 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 4:30, Expert = 9:00

Solution: To be posted on our next puzzle post once live.

Note: Follow this link for other classic Sudoku. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Sudoku to get started on. More classic Sudoku puzzles can be found in The Art of Sudoku, The Art of Sudoku 2 and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.

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