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Yes, I found the dissection in the example was almost completely resolvable using essentially only domino-type logic (though of course invoking the parity properties of the path). Identifying the ends of the path only comes into play later on, both of which are forced by the fact that two adjacent ...

Prime paths doesn’t feel like it could plausibly have such high point values (all 21 2-digit primes is only 42 cells and should permit bifurcation on 2,4,5,6,8) but we’ll see... Is this likely to be a mix of a path puzzle and some dominoes style logic? I struggled to start the example, but I didn’t...

Yes, I would do my most comfortable first, then the highest pointers I thought might be doable so I might have some quick ones to squeeze in near the end of the time. Just my personal ordering.

Here are two small example puzzles for you to try.

Daft question but are Minesweeper puzzles like the old Microsoft ones? I had a look in the Puzzle Rules board and couldn’t find any examples in there. I could easily have overlooked them though! :) I have seen two common versions of minesweeper puzzles. The more common (I think) is where you won't ...

Sorry - I was a little slow in uploading the example this time. It's there now, and yes, it's pretty similar to the old Microsoft game.

Tom - there's not much value in submitting your answers now, but the puzzles are still there if you want to race Sam's time!

Minesweeper is very similar to the old game on Windows computers. Here are the rules from GM Puzzles: Place a mine into some of the empty cells so that each number represents the total count of mines in neighbouring cells, including diagonally adjacent cells. Very simple rules. The logic can be toug...

This competition is now closed. I hope you enjoyed it. It was another clean set of submissions with one player having a total blinder. Thank you to Emma McCaughan and David McNeill for testing the puzzles. The times were as follows: Sam Cappleman-Lynes 6m51 Matthew White 12m57 Jeff Dick 14m23 Thomas...

Any hints on Full Rank? Will there be four numbers starting in 1, four with 2 and so on?

Happy New Year! Here is Round 4 of Division D of the 2020-2021 UK Puzzle League. Please download and print the puzzles. You can complete them in any order at any point between now and Tuesday 19th January For each puzzle, remember to time yourself honestly as to how long it takes. When you are finis...

Happy New Year! Here are some more puzzles.

Here are two practice puzzles for you.

Ahead of Round 4 of Division D, I wanted to look at Skyscrapers puzzles. GM Puzzles give the rules as follows: Insert a digit from 1 to N into each cell in the N by N grid so that no digit repeats in any row or column. Also, each number in the grid represents the height of a building and the clues o...

A quick message to highlight that the Puzzle Grand Prix dates have been announced, and switched in for the first round due to Puzzle Ramayan being slower to announce their dates.

Hello everyone. Round 1 is now closed. Everyone seemed to enjoy the puzzles, and it was especially good to see so many people solve all of them, though there were a couple of errors in the solutions submitted. Thanks to David McNeill and Emma McCaughan for test solving, and Freddie Hand for the beau...

This competition is now closed. I hope you enjoyed it. Again, eight puzzlers attempted the puzzle set and all of them completed them all correctly! Thank you to Emma McCaughan and Neil Zussman for testing the puzzles. The times were as follows: Sam Cappleman-Lynes 9m22 Tom Collyer 12m10 Laura Baxter...

Got them Adam, thanks.

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At the end, it asks us to send the clues and the answers. What does it mean by clues?

Just that you should submit the given clue cells and your worked out answers when you submit the row of your solution.

Glad I came back to this thread - the document itself says 11th - 14th November so I thought i was too late. Time enough to read up on these variations again! Whoops! Yes, you can still submit on Tuesday (or you can submit Wednesday daytime because I don’t organise everything until Wednesday evenin...

Thanks Sam. You’re right, that’s an oversight on my part. I’d accept either answer if that happened in the real competition puzzles.

Hi Here is Round 1 of Division C of the 2020-2021 UK Puzzle League. Please download and print the puzzles. You can complete them in any order at any point between now and Tuesday 15th December. For each puzzle, remember to time yourself honestly as to how long it takes. When you are finished all of ...

Hello again Here is Round 3 of Division D of the 2020-2021 UK Puzzle League. Please download and print the puzzles. You can complete them in any order at any point between now and Tuesday 15th December. For each puzzle, remember to time yourself honestly as to how long it takes. When you are finishe...

Here are the last two practice puzzles I'm going to post before the competition for the coming weekend.

Lovely example Gareth

Here are two more examples of "full" Four Winds like in the Beginners December competition.

Yes, if you’re eligible for a UK passport, you can join in the league. Take a look at the Fillomino and Tapa rounds to get a feel of them and get ready for the December competition. Ask any questions here.