UK Puzzle Association

Congratulations to Mark and commiserations to Tom

David

Congratulations, Neil, on an excellent pair of victories, especially as the format changed this year. Thanks for posting the results - your post was how I heard the good news!

David

... and at https://web.archive.org/web/*/uk2014.org

Just to remind everyone that this year the event is at a hotel on the Purley Way and NOT at the usual venue.

https://www.hallmarkhotels.co.uk/hotels ... irections/

David

Well done all !

Roughly 42 minutes into http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nj56w

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Thanks Tom - it's great to capture it here

And by coincidence* I have just noticed your name in relation to a fascinating website that I have visited about a loosely-related genre of TV programmes - thank you for that too :-) * I didn't bother adding words like "weird", "strange", "remarkable" or "amazing" - even though I wanted to - because...

Aha ! Hi, and my apologies for being so presumptious as to pontificate from a position of such relative ignorance ! http://www.boardability.com/profile.php ... _m_dickson

As far as I am aware, 2011 was the first event of "the modern era". Detailed results are available under the Results dropdown list at http://www.msoworld.com/ . There was a Puzzle Solving event in 1998 : I don't know the format but it sounds too early and I don't recognise any of the names involved ...

Congratulations to Tom for winning on his first appearance and to Neil for another very strong result. This continues the UKPA sequence of winners since 2011 : Rodders, me, Mark, Mark, Neil, Neil and Tom. The result is at the Puzzle Solving section of http://www.msoworld.com/2017-medal-table/ Gold :...

Hi Tom. This is a comment on the PDF answer format, not the sudoku itself. Sudoku 5 (Classic Sudoku) has r4 and r6 both marked as A. I naturally assumed r4=A and r6=B (top to bottom) and my answer has been accepted.

The 5th round is currently underway. I haven't attempted it yet and obviously don't intend to comment on the actual puzzles while it is underway. However if, like me, you are surprised and confused by the answer to the Unicorn puzzle in the practice paper (because of some 9s attacking other 9s a kni...

Thanks. Absolutely - the symmetry would be far more pleasing than a lop-sided straight run of golds :-) I have mixed feelings about the Sunday : it's normally OK for me, but it does disrupt the Bank Holiday weekend. Friday could always be a pain because of clashes with meetings at work, but I found ...

Not long to go now - looking forward to hopefully seeing several of you at London Bridge on the 17th.

Eleven I think. Neil and I were there from UKPA but there was no sign of Mark or Rodders. Obviously a few of the MSO regulars were there (including Alain, who came third).

Congratulations to Neil on winning the Kenken and Sudoku contest for the second year running. This continues the UKPA sequence of winners since 2011 : Rodders, me, Mark, Mark, Neil and Neil.

G Neil Zussman
S David Collison
B Alain Dekker

http://www.msoworld.com/2016-medal-table/

Congratulations to Heather, and to Tom, Mark and Emma. Best wishes for Slovakia later on in the year. Thank you to everyone involved in setting and running both of the sudoku contests. Maybe I should start having a look at the puzzle contests instead !

David

Agreed - thank you Liane (and helpers) ! It would be good to see the results spreadsheet as some point if possible - thanks.

Hello Valeria. It's great to know that everything is OK - best wishes to you both.

David

Thanks Liane

David

Thanks Oh, um, er ... Well done David

David

Hi. Thanks for these. Look forward to seeing you all soon. Sudoku R2 Q5. Is the additional "non-consecutive" condition a copy-and-paste typo ? The example puzzle doesn't seem to conform. Should it say something else (about the pencil marks) instead ? Sudoku R4 Q9, will the numbers between the slalom...

Thanks Mark - congratulations to Heather, yourself and everyone else on your performances. Fascinating last submission times !

David