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- 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...
- 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/
I won gold, Sunseong Kwon won silver and Chris Tucker won bronze - https://mindsportsolympiad.com/2023-medals/
- 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...
- 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...
- Fri 18 Feb, 2022 9:38 am
- Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
- Topic: Nanro
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5285
- 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...
- 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
- 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
David
- Thu 07 Oct, 2021 9:48 am
- Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
- Topic: Tents
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6639
Re: Tents
Great, thanks
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, what a wonderful pun to invoke such an appropriate quote!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.
- 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
Structure or contents, David?!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.
David
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tue 04 Aug, 2020 7:37 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
Well done Tom!
- 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...
- 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
David
- 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....
- 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 ?
- 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
- 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.