UK Puzzle Association

Thank you.

I like Gogen. I’m a little surprised I’ve never seen it in a puzzling event.

Postponed until after the last round now. Gives me a chance to see if anyone could do the Honey Islands and Easy As Japanese Railway examples from the IB. I couldn't work out how to get started at all in the Honey Islands. What are we supposed to be looking for to break in? Easy As Japanese Railways...

What's happening with Round 6? I can't see the Competition Puzzles? Has the glitch mentioned on the site not been resolved yet?

I agree with everything Freddie says. If you search back in the logic masters India history, you’ll see some beginners competitions, where they have some puzzle sets on some of the more common types, getting gradually harder. This is a good way into some of the key types that I found.

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In the kropki kakuro in Puzzles Round 4, it doesn’t state that all such kropki circles are present, but that rule does apply in the example. Are all such circles present?

I’m not very impressed with the fill in the blanks. How is that a puzzle? I had a quick look while it was printing out but assumed some level of thought, not just processing, would be involved. I’m not sure how that warrants a space in the mix. Otherwise I did like the range of puzzles available, bu...

Got it. Thank you! Turns a frustrating mess into a lovely solution

With the hidden clone, I managed to work out where the clone was, but couldn’t place a single number. Could you give me a hint to start it now? I found the classics very difficult too. For so few points, I thought they were fairly nasty. I don’t mind hard classics being there, but for those points, ...

Thank you very much. That’s good to hear.

The kakuro really slowed me down.

I feel like there must be some technique to go faster. Is there anything anyone has found to help speed up a kakuro?

When solving the Kuromasu example, it made me wonder whether the remaining white cells can be orthogonally connected through the clue cells, or whether all the white cells had to be touching and the clue cells blocked the white cell connections.

Exciting looking mix here. I'm looking forward to it.

Has there been any date set for the Puzzles?

Morning Liane For the Twin Killer in Sudoku round 5, I’m a bit confused. It’s a pair of identical solutions but the cages are different in each grid and together they’ll give enough information, but not separately? The Coded First Seen Snake in Puzzle round 3 has no solution in the instruction bookl...

Congratulations James, and well done Emma. Great result! I’ve been gamely plodding ahead with the puzzles I didn’t get in the time limit. The Fillomino different shapes has me completely baffled. I broke it in a few places. What should I have been doing? The Finnish snake, I managed to rule out a fe...

Hi Lovely looking IB. I reckon I’ll have a wide range of puzzles to get into. I’m intrigued by Laser, but I don’t understand either the mirrors or the answer key. What are “one cell sections”? When it talks about mirrors, are they very small, just at the intersection of vertical and horizontal squar...

Congratulations Sam!

In the anti-symmetry Rossi Sinai, when it discusses 180 degree symmetry, is it within the cage, or the whole grid, or both? The example implies the whole grid, but I thought there was a chance the example was wrong.

Hi Liane. Have I missed the instructions for Round 5?

I meant to ask this after it appeared in the U.K. Championships, but now it's come up in the Puzzle GP, it has become more pressing.

How do you solve Clouds?

Yes! That's exactly what happened. How frustrating! Thanks, Gareth.

Can we get email reminders for these competitions please?

Was there an email reminder of this competition? I'm disappointed to have missed out!