UK Puzzle Association

Best of luck all

Nice tips James, even if the reporter does appear to have struggled with counting them

The same combination of quality construction and some unusual type selection that I've come to expect from Tawan.

Thanks for another fun set of puzzles.

Thank you to the puzzle authors, testers and organiser. Really enjoyed the filled pentomino type and the hidoku/slitherlink layouts worked nicely.

Some very nice puzzle as usual from Tawan. Thanks for your efforts.

Good to see some of the less common Nikoli types, with perhaps the exception of the final puzzle where I will be happy to not see its like again.

Congrats David. Very nice double.

Congrats to those who qualified. Nice selection of puzzles, both triple block and abc yajilin were great variants I enjoyed solving. Thanks to all the constructors, testers and organisers.

Excellent. Thanks Alan.

Can I assume the contest will run Friday afternoon to late Monday evening? If not I'm going to struggle to compete, it's an unfortunate weekend for me.

Congratulations James. Another great result.

Also this weekend I won't have to enter answer keys, which is good given I managed to botch 3 this round including some I'd 'double checked'
Really liked the all black Castle Wall.

I shall guess Meandering Numbers purely because I like the type.

Up to the usual Tawan high standard. Some nice less common types in the second half. I'd also put 6 & 8 as the standouts.

The unexplained variants worked neatly with the puzzle types.

It was certainly nice for me to see a Yajilin contest. That's gonna be about the only time you'll see me ahead of James in a puzzle leaderboard

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A fine set of puzzles. Gemini Loop and Kurotto were my favourites. Thanks to all involved in creating and running the contest.

The puzzles were a really fun set with lots of new (to me at least) types.
Puzzles 2/4 were a nice example of culture advantage/disadvantage.
Point allocation seemed rather questionable overall but the answer codes were very user friendly.
Definitely recommended.

detuned wrote:if you keep plugging away at them you'll end up winning one sooner or later!

Well I wasn't expecting it to be Hitori and certainly not with that ugly solve but I'll take it

I can recommend these puzzles even to those who are not big fans of battleships. Solves flowed well and round 2 was particularly nice.

A nice variety of puzzles. Thanks for the heads up.

Really impressive UK showing, especially Neil.

I found the answer keys to be rather onerous. I'm not surprised I botched one also.

Impressive work James. I managed to win my first daily puzzle earlier in the month when I'd never been in the top 3 before. Not coincidentally this was the first daily puzzle run of the new Yajilin applet. Hopefully it makes plenty of appearences in the league.

Thanks Chris. I'm afraid it is more averages catching up than any recent rating progress. Was a nice surprise to get the email but 3kyu could take a while at this rate.

A miss is as good as a mile

I was able to keep making progress through the entire two and a half hours, getting the really enjoyable thought of "I didn't think I was going to be able to solve that puzzle, but i pleasantly surprised myself by being able to do so". I even ended up feeling at the end that with another ten minute...