UK Puzzle Association

The sudoku had classic (some pretty difficult), diagonal (pretty easy), irregular (not too hard) and killer (2 very difficult ones that I didn't make much progress on at all- the only 2 puzzles I didn't finish in time). Puzzles had Kenken (a bit of a challenge, included sizes up to 9*9 which was pre...

I took the day off work to go; David Collison was the only other person I recognised from this parish. Results (for all events) are published here: https://msoworld.com/2018-medal-table/ Relevant bits are: Puzzle Solving- Kenken & Other Puzzles Gold:Neil Zussman-England Silver:Paul Smith-England Bro...

This thread has reminded me of a very important point! Tom, did you ever receive your prize money last year? I can't remember whether I received my runner's up prize, though if you did I'll assume I did.

The competition is this weekend; so some videos might gradually appear at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0Pc5c6WnBS

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.