UK Puzzle Association

My 358 seems to be the worst score. I don't like the interface for sudoku, and in fact after I went wrong, I gave up and printed it and solved on paper and then copied in the answers - which took rather less time than the time I'd spent failing to solve it online!

I did do the Puzzle Ramayan, but I'm in the "country unknown" list rather than UK. I had forgotten my password, their "forgotten password" link didn't work, and nor did the "if this doesn't work, email this address". I eventually re-registered with my work address, but failed to fill in my profile u...

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...

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.

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.

Unfortunately I'm unable to take part myself.

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

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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!)