Tak Puzzle Compendium publication

I have exciting news. Tomorrow - 1/15 - my book, Tak Puzzle Compendium, will be releasing on Amazon. The book features 100 tinue puzzles, similar to this blog of all levels. It is intended for Tak players of all skill levels. If you do purchase a copy, please leave a review. In addition, I would appreciate you sharing this with anyone you might think will be interested. Thanks to all of my supporters.

2021 look back and 2022 wish list

2021 Review and 2022 Wish List

2021 brings in a few milestones. First of all, it marks my second complete year of making puzzles. Secondly, I hit the 500 puzzle mark (I also hit the 600 puzzle mark, but that's less exciting news). I have expanded publication (or am in the process of doing so) to the Tak Talk discord community. I published my first April fool's puzzle. (Note that it really was a truly solvable puzzle - just not for Tak). I hope to keep that tradition alive. If you have any suggestions for Abstracts to feature, let me know.

2021 Review

As with last year, I've continued to tag each puzzle with the size (6x6, 5x5), difficulty (Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard), and starting player (white, black). Last year I just listed the raw numbers. This year, I decided to make things a bit more digestible and see interesting comparisons to last year, by creating charts of all the info. Each of these charts shows the exact same data, but with different focuses.

2022 Wish List

By now I've published just over 600 puzzles. In the coming year, I hope to reach around 900 - just shy of 1000.  I've been really pleased with the growth in the community this year and I hope to see more of it in the coming year. I hope to see more content created - in all sorts of forms.

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

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.

Welcome Back

Thank you all for bearing with me. My break was good to have, but it’s nice to be back. My regular puzzles will resume at the beginning of next week. I already have a small backlog of puzzles ready to be published that I think you all will enjoy.
A special thank you to my patrons Yonkers and rabbitboy84.
As ever, may all of your roads lead to Tinuë.

Announcement

Thank you all for supporting and reading my blog. It's been a fun road to reach 100 puzzles. Due to holidays and other factors, I will be taking a break for all of October. I currently plan on being back after that. I may try to introduce new content, but we'll see. I'm certainly hoping to get to another 100 puzzles.
A special thank you to those of you who support this work on Patreon, with a shoutout to Yonkers, rabbitboy84.
Thanks again.

And of course, the solution to #20.5: