UK Puzzle Association

Round 4 is this weekend- Czech Republic. Might be good practise for the WPC in November!

Tom and I are going on Thursday and are definitely up for a room or two. I think Gyorgy said Taro is going early as well, and that we might have a 4-man team already (including you). Trouble is, I can't remember which rooms we've done before, hopefully Gyorgy can!

Round 4 is on now

Round 2 is currently running.

My interpretation was that a(t)=c(t)+d(t) (not t-1 on the RHS). However my maths still doesn't give me the quoted answer (I get 237).

One last video: https://youtu.be/VIQNjh88FWM

Friday update: https://youtu.be/WhTyin1RW3M

Didn't have time yesterday, but here's the first WPC update: https://youtu.be/42vS00rBAgU

WSC closing ceremony just finished; here's a brief summary: Click here

As promised, the next update is now available here.

Not for the first time, I'm creating a series of vlogs from the tournament. The first one can be found here, which is from yesterday, and today's update is just uploading so I'll post the link shortly.

PuzzleScot wrote: ↑

Wed 04 Oct, 2017 3:42 pm

david mcneill wrote: ↑

Wed 04 Oct, 2017 2:48 pm

I love question 12a.

Same here!

Yeah that was about the only one I could solve on a brief scan through, very nice.

Hmm, could've done with a bit more notice about this.

As a heads up, round 8 is next weekend already!

Interesting article (in my opinion) about the use of end-of-season play-offs in Rugby League: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/40698382 Basically, Castleford have won the regular league season for the first time ever, but because there are end-of-season play-offs culminating in a Grand Final,...

I've asked Gyorgy if he can book a couple of Escape rooms for us for Friday, as he has done in the past. So far I believe there are 3 people interested, Tom, Tawan and me, but anyone else is welcome to join.

There's a chance of me being able to go this year. Is anyone interested in those Hungarian escape rooms on Friday? If there's a group going I hope to tag along and book my flights accordingly. Hopefully, they have different rooms set up by now. :lol: I'm certainly planning to do one or more escape ...

Just booked my flights, you can currently get a return journey from London, Thursday to Sunday, for under £130, so there's no excuse for anyone even remotely tempted, at least not for those near London- it's a lot more fun than it may sound!
In other words- Tom, get yourself organised.

Well done on your second place, David. You'll now be aiming for Gold, Bronze and unplaced in some order in the next 3 years, I assume, to complete the double set? ;) Puzzles were considerably easier than last year, in my experience at least. I hope they keep running this on Sunday rather than Friday...

This event is taking part again in a couple of weeks, on the 28th (Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend). I'll be there!
http://www.msoworld.com/events/kenken-and-sudoku/

That's a ridiculously huge winning margin Hideaki had, congrats to him, and thanks to everyone involved in the organising. Definitely a tough one, not many easy points (if any!), but there was some nice logic on quite a few of them.

I think the top 4 have now all confirmed they intend to compete? In which case, congrats to all 4, and good luck in October!

Edit: Just noticed it says November in your first post Alan, but I'm pretty sure we're all going to turn up at the right time nonetheless.

Last chance to do the US round today. Well worth it if you can find the time (or just take the puzzles and solve at leisure later).

Heads up- the German round is this weekend. http://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/puzzle-gp

Yes, as David said, I attended for the first time, due to it not being a workday, and being held less than an hour from my flat, so I had no good reason not to. I stayed around for the results, so I can confirm that I won, fortunately no mistakes so a perfect score. Didn't recognise the other two na...

While we wait for the results to round 8, did anyone else find the points allocation a bit... strange. The two Kakuro's weren't that bad, imho, and I'm no Kakuro expert. Maybe with more experience of the puzzle I'd have knocked off the Japanese Arrows with less difficulty but as it was, I didn't re...