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- Tue 15 Sep, 2020 6:44 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle League 2020-2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3508
Re: UK Puzzle League 2020-2021
It would be good to have some easy-to-find publicity for the beginners' division that we can point people at - front page of the website, for instance. It makes it easier to share on Facebook/Twitter if we can give a link where people can find something. It might be most useful to have something tha...
- Sat 20 Jun, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle Championship 2020
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7975
Re: UK Puzzle Championship 2020
I was puzzled by the panoramic yajilin rule too. I think it's just trying to say that if the number is in an edge square, there will only be three directions in which you need to look. I think it could be omitted, as it's fairly obvious that you aren't expected to shade any squares outside the grid.
- Sat 20 Jun, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle Championship 2020
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7975
Re: UK Puzzle Championship 2020
That made for a very quiet lunchtime in this house!
The Yin Yang instructions are missing the constraint that no 2x2 square may be all the same colour.
The Yin Yang instructions are missing the constraint that no 2x2 square may be all the same colour.
- Fri 24 Nov, 2017 8:22 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Armchair Treasure Hunt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9408
Re: Armchair Treasure Hunt
Unfortunately I'm unable to take part myself.
- Thu 23 Nov, 2017 11:27 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Armchair Treasure Hunt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9408
- Thu 26 Oct, 2017 7:34 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Record results for UK teams at the World Championships
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16379
Re: Record results for UK teams at the World Championships
Well done, everyone!
- Wed 16 Aug, 2017 1:36 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle GP question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22409
Re: Puzzle GP question
Well I finished at 102, but Heather made it into the top 100.
By the way, in round 8b, it looks like eight people completed but got the second snake wrong. At least in my case I know that my spare 25 seconds wouldn't have been enough to check my answers...
By the way, in round 8b, it looks like eight people completed but got the second snake wrong. At least in my case I know that my spare 25 seconds wouldn't have been enough to check my answers...
- Mon 14 Aug, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle GP round 7
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11544
Re: Puzzle GP round 7
Wow - I hadn't looked up last weekend's results - thanks for pointing that out.
- Mon 14 Aug, 2017 1:55 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle GP question
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22409
Re: Puzzle GP question
Crikey - I'm at number 103 in section A. Perhaps I'd better make sure I don't improve so I don't get kicked out of section B.
- Fri 30 Jun, 2017 7:33 am
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: New Zealand puzzle team
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20311
Re: New Zealand puzzle team
I seem to remember that in Kraljevika, Prasanna was a one-man UN team for the sudoku, and did very respectably.
- Thu 29 Jun, 2017 11:07 pm
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: New Zealand puzzle team
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20311
Re: New Zealand puzzle team
To be fair, because James has competed for the UK, they were probably unaware of any other New Zealanders interested - although the reporter obviously managed to find out about James from Prasanna, and James (and somebody else - one of the team?) have competed in the Grand Prix under New Zealand. Pe...
- Tue 06 Jun, 2017 7:09 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: 2017 UK Sudoku and Puzzle Championships
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17743
Re: 2017 UK Sudoku and Puzzle Championships
The instructions still refer to WSC in Senec, Slovakia - we might want to update that.
- Tue 05 Jul, 2016 9:35 pm
- Forum: Welcome!
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12218
Re: New Member
I'm afraid the sort of puzzles we do are pencil & paper puzzles, rather than jigsaw puzzles (although I enjoy those too). But you are very welcome, and maybe we can entice you to try some of our puzzles.
- Thu 30 Jun, 2016 9:39 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: UKPC Results and 2016 UK WPC Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 22480
Re: UKPC Results and 2016 UK WPC Team
Many thanks - I may have fairly well messed it upl, but I enjoyed many of the puzzles nevertheless.
- Tue 21 Jun, 2016 6:07 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle Championship 2016/WPC Qualification
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19155
Re: UK Puzzle Championship 2016/WPC Qualification
Works for me.
- Thu 03 Dec, 2015 9:13 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: LMI - Puzzle Ramayan & IPC Qualifiers : September - March
- Replies: 28
- Views: 48058
Re: LMI - Puzzle Ramayan & IPC Qualifiers : September - Marc
I completed my last one about half a minute after time was up. Wish I'd done it in the same room as the printer- it might have made all the difference.
- Thu 12 Nov, 2015 6:54 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: [SOTR] Nikoli Hurdles 3
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17374
Re: [SOTR] Nikoli Hurdles 3
Do share these methods... I just used a brute-force table - it got there, but it was very tedious.
- Tue 27 Oct, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: UK wins the senior category for WSC and WPC
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27517
Re: UK wins the senior category for WSC and WPC
Me too - when I read the above I found myself wondering when I last paid.
- Sun 09 Aug, 2015 7:50 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Indian Puzzle Championship
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6754
Indian Puzzle Championship
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- Thu 06 Aug, 2015 9:13 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2015 Puzzle GP
- Replies: 59
- Views: 83456
Re: 2015 Puzzle GP
I thought the kakuros were fairly straightforward, and certainly easier than the couple of examples I'd dug out to practise on (although I ended up not having time to do those until after the GP, in the end).
- Thu 16 Jul, 2015 1:02 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Sudoku Championship 2015
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33146
Re: UK Sudoku Championship 2015
Well done Heather, and the very close set of runners-up. I broke two, including a big one, so I knew I wasn't going to come out of it well. (I've also got the family trained. On one occasion, I put H to bed, and G was out. When the phone rang, I heard footsteps and a voice saying "Mummy's doing a co...
- Wed 24 Jun, 2015 11:34 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle Championship 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 39234
Re: UK Puzzle Championship 2015
For puzzle 24, can you clarify whether B1 would come before or after A2 in the answer key? (In puzzle 28, the order is clear from the example, but the instructions are worded the opposite way round to puzzle 24, so I'm not sure whether this implies the opposite order for #24.) It may be that getting...
- Thu 11 Jun, 2015 5:51 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2015 Puzzle GP
- Replies: 59
- Views: 83456
Re: 2015 Puzzle GP
Yes - I was completely stumped by it in the competition, but the others seemed easier.
(If my answers were correct, that would have been a top-70 place I threw away. Bah!)
(If my answers were correct, that would have been a top-70 place I threw away. Bah!)
- Sun 07 Jun, 2015 7:59 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2015 Puzzle GP
- Replies: 59
- Views: 83456
Re: 2015 Puzzle GP
Darn, darn, darn.
Took my eye off the clock, and submitted 291 points-worth 2 minutes after time.
At least I was enjoying them, so it wasn't a complete waste of 90 minutes.
Took my eye off the clock, and submitted 291 points-worth 2 minutes after time.
At least I was enjoying them, so it wasn't a complete waste of 90 minutes.
- Mon 25 May, 2015 6:26 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Cambridge Uni Computing and Tech Soc puzzle hunt, June 12th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6545
Re: Cambridge Uni Computing and Tech Soc puzzle hunt, June 1
I'm busy in Cambridge on the Saturday, but if anyone's coming and wants to meet up afterwards, do say.