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by DavidC
Fri 25 Aug, 2023 8:58 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Replies: 59
Views: 113068

Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday

Thanks both of you. Yes, I was surprised - I briefly wondered too when I didn't see you or Tom! Some were from a South Korean team attending the overall event, one or two were first-timers and one or two were competitors in other MSO events. This year involved 8 Classic, 6 Diagonal, 8 Killer and 8 K...
by DavidC
Thu 24 Aug, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Replies: 59
Views: 113068

Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday

This year's event took place on Tuesday 22 August at JW3. There were nine contenders, although the field lacked Neil, Tom and other familiar faces.

I won gold, Sunseong Kwon won silver and Chris Tucker won bronze - https://mindsportsolympiad.com/2023-medals/
by DavidC
Fri 17 Feb, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2023 UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament
Replies: 5
Views: 7570

Re: 2023 UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament

The RMT rail union has announced its intention to hold further strike action on Saturday 1st April (and other dates). I suggest that those intending to travel by rail to the UKPA Open events should check any potential impact now and continue to monitor the situation over the coming weeks. https://ww...
by DavidC
Wed 16 Mar, 2022 10:33 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2021-22
Replies: 16
Views: 8901

Re: Division D 2021-22

Well done Paul. Thank you, Adam, for organising this series of events. My enduring dislike of puzzles that involve drawing lines and shading boxes, er, endures, but I promise to continue trying ... if only to stop Liane from giving me a hard time about my blinkered sudokucentricity ! Best wishes, Da...
by DavidC
Fri 18 Feb, 2022 9:38 am
Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
Topic: Nanro
Replies: 6
Views: 5285

Re: Nanro

pinkagape wrote: Thu 17 Feb, 2022 9:46 am Yes, that’s perhaps clearer. The numbers must all be connected along edges to make one group.
Thanks
by DavidC
Wed 16 Feb, 2022 8:38 pm
Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
Topic: Nanro
Replies: 6
Views: 5285

Re: Nanro

Nanro is one of my favourite types. Here is my guide. This looks an interesting type for me to get to grips with. So, based on the pink example, "single connected group" actually means "single edge-connected group"? Apologies if this is obvious to everyone else, but I am still s...
by DavidC
Tue 23 Nov, 2021 5:29 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention
Replies: 13
Views: 15132

Re: 2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention

Thank you to those of you who took part in the various video discussions. I haven't watched them all yet - the shortest of the five is three quarters of an hour! - but I have enjoyed a couple of them already. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGY12L ... A/featured
by DavidC
Fri 12 Nov, 2021 8:08 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention
Replies: 13
Views: 15132

Re: 2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention

Thanks Adam - I mistakenly thought that everything started on Saturday

David
by DavidC
Thu 07 Oct, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
Topic: Tents
Replies: 8
Views: 6639

Re: Tents

Great, thanks
by DavidC
Tue 05 Oct, 2021 12:30 pm
Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
Topic: Tents
Replies: 8
Views: 6639

Re: Tents

Silly question time. I am confused by the bottom of the second new example. To achieve the required 3 tents in row 6, the only three trees that reach them orthogonally are r6c2, r6c4 and r7c7. r7c7 puts a tent in r6c7 which drives the other two to be in c1 and c4 to avoid tents touching. Then, becau...
by DavidC
Wed 25 Aug, 2021 8:23 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Replies: 59
Views: 113068

Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday

Thanks for the reminder, Tom. Well done tonight - hopefully your medal position will be formally confirmed in due course. I am happy enough with apparent-13th simply because I managed to log on and register successfully this year after a logistical nightmare last year when I failed to actually compe...
by DavidC
Sun 13 Jun, 2021 10:35 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: UKPA Monday evening Zoom drop-ins
Replies: 37
Views: 33632

Re: UKPA Monday evening Zoom drop-ins

david mcneill wrote: Fri 11 Jun, 2021 12:41 pm At the risk of intertwining quite different threads (see Deuteronomy 22:11), it was the contents that fell short of the mark.
David, what a wonderful pun to invoke such an appropriate quote!
by DavidC
Thu 10 Jun, 2021 8:23 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: UKPA Monday evening Zoom drop-ins
Replies: 37
Views: 33632

Re: UKPA Monday evening Zoom drop-ins

david mcneill wrote: Tue 08 Jun, 2021 9:02 am Sorry Tom. I wasn't available to join you last night. Under instructions to augment my wardrobe.
Structure or contents, David?!

David
by DavidC
Thu 19 Nov, 2020 8:47 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2020-21
Replies: 48
Views: 42868

Re: Division D 2020-21

Thanks - I'm sorry I didn't manage to submit this time. Incidentally, I find it interesting and mentally challenging that blocking out stuff is actually a positive rather than negative aspect to this puzzle. Perhaps I need to think of it and/or mark it in a different way, as I naturally think of the...
by DavidC
Wed 21 Oct, 2020 9:45 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2020-21
Replies: 48
Views: 42868

Re: Division D 2020-21 Round 1

Thank you all for your responses. As someone who is used to the rigour of being required to get 81/81 correct (either absolutely or to definitively identify a well-constructed answer key), it may take me a little while to adjust to the acceptable bounds in this weird parallel universe of scribbling ...
by DavidC
Sat 17 Oct, 2020 10:54 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2020-21
Replies: 48
Views: 42868

Re: Division D 2020-21 Round 1

Re. my testing time: for very easy puzzles, writing speed is certainly a huge factor, and may play more of a role than logical ability. Thanks, this is a fascinating comment. As someone from the sudoku side of the community, I have occasionally tried odd tweaks like changing the way I have written ...
by DavidC
Sat 17 Oct, 2020 10:46 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2020-21
Replies: 48
Views: 42868

Re: Division D 2020-21 Round 1

Although the instructions to fillomino tell you to place a number in each cell, most of the time I will instead draw borders to identify regions of connected cells, and then maybe write in the relevant size In one representative cell of the region. It certainly saves a bit of time doing it that way...
by DavidC
Fri 16 Oct, 2020 7:36 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Division D 2020-21
Replies: 48
Views: 42868

Re: Division D 2020-21 Round 1

Thank you for running this contest. After so many years of resolutely sticking to the Sudoku world - despite suffering incessant bullying and coercion from Liane as a result :-) - I am delighted to have dipped a toe into the waters of the puzzling part of our community. I really look forward to tryi...
by DavidC
Sun 02 Aug, 2020 7:13 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Replies: 59
Views: 113068

Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday

Good luck to those of you currently taking part in the online MSO sudoku contest. I made a mistake with the registration requirements - I registered with MSO, and with Discord, and with vint.ee, several days ago. However I cut it fine driving home tonight and didn't realise about needing to register...
by DavidC
Wed 21 Aug, 2019 8:57 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Replies: 59
Views: 113068

Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday

Thank you. It was good to see Tom and Neil, and Rodders for the first time in ages. There were some other familiar MSO faces too.

David
by DavidC
Fri 12 Jul, 2019 2:16 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: The Times Sudoku Championship 2019 (or not)
Replies: 3
Views: 10632

Re: The Times Sudoku Championship 2019 (or not)

I contacted The Times generic mailbox a few weeks ago to find out about the qualifiers (as I would need to qualify this year after a stupid error last year). David Parfitt replied soon afterwards: "[...] I'll be in touch as soon as I'm in a position to update you on what is happening this year....
by DavidC
Fri 05 Apr, 2019 4:27 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello all I have some puzzles for you to solve
Replies: 7
Views: 25734

Re: Hello all I have some puzzles for you to solve

Hello. 958 ?
by DavidC
Sat 16 Feb, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: WPF Sudoku Technical Discussion forum
Topic: Figure sum sudoku [WPF sudoku GP 2017]
Replies: 8
Views: 24872

Re: Figure sum sudoku [WPF sudoku GP 2017]

Even more succinctly, a sudoku is about symbol placement not structure placement :-)
by DavidC
Sat 16 Feb, 2019 11:37 am
Forum: WPF Sudoku Technical Discussion forum
Topic: Figure sum sudoku [WPF sudoku GP 2017]
Replies: 8
Views: 24872

Re: Figure sum sudoku [WPF sudoku GP 2017]

More succinctly, a sudoku is primarily about symbol placement not structure placement.