the first variety puzzle of year 2 was sent out this morning, and the first rows garden will be sent out tomorrow morning. if you are a year 2 subscriber and didn't get it, try the following...

want to download all the year 1 rows gardens in one convenient bundle? i've got you covered.

a number of people have asked if i could make all of the year 1 puzzles available in easy-to-download form, for the convenience of those catching up. well, you asked and i am delivering.

with all 75 puzzles for year 1 now published, and the subscription drive for year 2 in full swing, i thought it would be useful to write up a short summary of everything that's happening here in the next week or two.

this is the last puzzle of year 1 here at outside the box puzzles, but it's also a first, in the sense that it's a puzzle type i made up. i brought it to a boston-area puzzlers picnic yesterday and it was well received.

congrats to matthew grieco of brooklyn, the winner of the meta contest! matthew has won a free premium subscription to year 2 of outside the box puzzles.

solutions (including spoilers for the puzzle, obviously) after the jump.

just a reminder that you can renew your subscription for year 2. this is the last rows garden of year 1!

lots of exciting news: as of today, subscriptions are open for year 2 of outside the box puzzles!

still working on yesterday's postponed variety puzzle, but here's the rows garden.

the bad news is: there's no variety puzzle today. one of my test-solvers found a misspelling in the grid, and i didn't have enough time to fix it (it will involve redoing half the grid). so, sorry about that. i'm bummed, too.