2020 Look Back and 2021 Wish List

2020 Review and 2021 Wish List

2020 marks my first full complete year making puzzles. This has definitely been an interesting experience. At times it's been enthralling. At other times it's been difficult to keep up with the need to constantly create content. With the new year approaching, I wanted to take this chance to look back at the previous year (well back to the beginning) and to look forward to the future - not just for myself, but for the community as a whole.

2020 Review

One of the things I've been doing in my spare time this past month has been to go back and tag every single puzzle with 3 major tags: the size of the board (generally 6x6 or 5x5), the color of the player (white or black), and the difficulty (Takolyte, E'lir, Re'lar, El'the). The aim of this was twofold: first, this enables new readers who are looking for specific types of puzzles to find them more easily. Secondly, it allows me to look back and see what I've accomplished. Here's the breakdown of the categories:

• 6x6: 232
• white: 128
• Beginner: 37
• Easy: 61
• Medium: 17
• Hard: 4
• black: 104
• Beginner: 26
• Easy: 45
• Medium: 24
• Hard: 4
• 5x5: 174
• white: 88
• Beginner: 15
• Easy: 44
• Medium: 24
• Hard: 2
• black: 86
• Beginner: 15
• Easy: 51
• Medium: 15
• Hard: 1

Some of you may have noticed that the numbers don't quite add up in some places. This is because not every puzzle I've made has turned out to be solvable. In particular, I've tagged 14 as 'impossible'. The other 7 are ones I'm actually unsure as to whether they're solvable or not. I've marked these as "undetermined". Feel free to go to these and try to solve them. In fact - if anyone is able to show either that they can or cannot be solved, I will reward them with Reddit gold and kudos in the blog.

2021 Wish List

By now I've published just over 400 puzzles. In the coming year, I look forward to reaching the 500 puzzle milestone and beyond. I'm especially looking forward to seeing how the Tak community continues to evolve. I'd love to see more content creation. I personally have been enjoying the Tak Times and commentary on the 2020 tournament. I look forward to seeing more of this.  I  am looking forward to seeing the development of playtak and PTN ninja. I'm looking forward to USTA's plans for this coming year.

Throughout all of this, the core of the Tak community is each and every person. I want to thank all of my readers and wish you all a Happy New Year.

Daily Puzzle #81.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 81.3:

Daily Puzzle #81.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 81.2:

Daily Puzzle #81.2 (Beginner)

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Solution to 81.1:

Daily Puzzle #81.1 (Beginner)

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Solution to 80.5:

Daily Puzzle #80.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 80.4:

Daily Puzzle #80.4 (Beginner)

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Solution to 80.3:

Daily Puzzle #80.3 (Medium)

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Solution to 80.2:

Daily Puzzle #80.2 (Beginner)

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Solution to 80.1:

Daily Puzzle #80.1 (Easy)

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Solution to 79.5:

Daily Puzzle #79.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 79.4:

Daily Puzzle #79.4 (Beginner)

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Solution to 79.3:

Daily Puzzle #79.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 79.2:

Daily Puzzle #79.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 79.1:

Daily Puzzle #79.1 (Beginner)

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Solution to 78.5:

Daily Puzzle #78.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 78.4:

Daily Puzzle #78.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 78.3:

Daily Puzzle #78.3 (Beginner)

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Solution to 78.2:

Daily Puzzle #78.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 78.1:

Daily Puzzle #78.1 (Medium)

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Solution to 77.5:

Daily Puzzle #77.5 (Medium)

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Solution to 77.4:

Daily Puzzle #77.4 (Beginner)

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Solution to 77.3:

Daily Puzzle #77.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 77.2:

Daily Puzzle #77.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 77.1:

Daily Puzzle #77.1 (El'the)

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Solution to 76.5:

Daily Puzzle #76.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 76.4:

Daily Puzzle #76.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 76.3:

Daily Puzzle #76.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 76.2:

Daily Puzzle #76.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 76.1:

Daily Puzzle #76.1 (Easy)

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Solution to 75.5:

Daily Puzzle #75.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 75.4:

Daily Puzzle #75.4 (Beginner)

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Solution to 75.3:

Daily Puzzle #75.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 75.2:

Daily Puzzle #75.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 75.1:

Daily Puzzle #75.1 (Easy)

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Solution to 74.5:

Daily Puzzle #74.5 (Hard)

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Solution to 74.4:

Daily Puzzle #74.4 (Beginner)

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Solution to 74.3:

Daily Puzzle #74.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 74.2:

Daily Puzzle #74.2 (Beginner)

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Solution to 74.1:

Daily Puzzle #74.1 (Beginner)

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Solution to 73.5:

Daily Puzzle #73.5 (Beginner)

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Solution to 73.4:

Daily Puzzle #73.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 73.3:

Daily Puzzle #73.3 (Easy)

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Solution to 73.2:

Daily Puzzle #73.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 73.1:

Daily Puzzle #73.1 (Easy)

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Solution to 72.5:

Daily Puzzle #72.5 (Impossible)

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Solution to 72.4:

Daily Puzzle #72.4 (Medium)

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Solution to 72.3:

Daily Puzzle #72.3 (Beginner)

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Solution to 72.2:

Daily Puzzle #72.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 72.1:

Daily Puzzle #72.1 (Easy)

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Solution to 71.5:

Daily Puzzle #71.5 (Beginner)

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Solution to 71.4:

Daily Puzzle #71.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 71.3:

Daily Puzzle #71.3 (Medium)

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Solution to 71.2:

Daily Puzzle #71.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 71.1:

Daily Puzzle #71.1 (Medium)

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Solution to 70.5:

Daily Puzzle #70.5 (Medium)

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Solution to 70.4:

Daily Puzzle #70.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 70.3:

Daily Puzzle #70.3 (Beginner)

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Solution to 70.2:

Daily Puzzle #70.2 (Easy)

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Solution to 70.1:

Daily Puzzle #70.1 (Hard)

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Solution to 69.4:

Daily Puzzle #69.5 (Easy)

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Solution to 69.4:

Daily Puzzle #69.4 (Easy)

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Solution to 69.3:

Daily Puzzle #69.3 (Medium)

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Solution to 69.2:

Daily Puzzle #69.2 (Beginner)

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Solution to 69.1: