UK Puzzle Association

Unfortunately I'm unable to take part myself.

Coming up soon, if anyone wants to get a team together...

https://www.pablosath.com/

Well done, everyone!

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...

Wow - I hadn't looked up last weekend's results - thanks for pointing that out.

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.

I seem to remember that in Kraljevika, Prasanna was a one-man UN team for the sudoku, and did very respectably.

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...

The instructions still refer to WSC in Senec, Slovakia - we might want to update that.

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.

Many thanks - I may have fairly well messed it upl, but I enjoyed many of the puzzles nevertheless.

Works for me.

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.

Do share these methods... I just used a brute-force table - it got there, but it was very tedious.

Me too - when I read the above I found myself wondering when I last paid.

Today, open for 48 hours...

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).

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...

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...

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!)

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.

I'm busy in Cambridge on the Saturday, but if anyone's coming and wants to meet up afterwards, do say.

I found it wasn't just the time to enter the answer keys, but also the scroll time - I ended with some small puzzles halfway down the list, and if it hadn't taken so long to find them, I might have got another one in on time.

I've seen an all-zero Slitherlink before, which I think made that easier.

I had a very error-prone round 1, so I'm relieved not to have made any this time.