UK Puzzle Association

Hi Gav, Sorry to see nobody has replied to you yet... First, welcome! If you are prepared to challenge yourself, and start exploring the myriad of puzzle types in existence, then a very good starting point would be past competitions, perhaps search for 'beginners' so as not to be too overwhelmed at ...

The puzzles are all mathematical. Usually quite enjoyable to solve. My only gripe is the answers are never published. There is an explanation on the site of why this is so. Regardless of having the solutions public (which contestants *could* do, if they wanted, after the contest), you can't work out...

pinkagape wrote: ↑

Tue 26 Jun, 2018 7:29 pm

The Finnish snake, I managed to rule out a few squares on the corners of the diagonally adjacent givens. Then it broke. What does the finished snake look like?

The solution booklet is now available on the competition main page.

15 correct answers will earn the partial bonus.

UllaE wrote: ↑

Sun 03 Jun, 2018 12:10 pm

Can you find similar document for Sudoku competitions?

I think the full results of all WSC championships (along with all WPCs since 2010) are in the WPF newsletters on the WPF site.

A warm welcome Dave

I hope you find something of interest here.

See you again soon
Alan

is there a handy list of places to look We do try to list competitions as they are happening, but there are so many, and lots are regular events... Better to bookmark the regular hosts - Germany ( LMD ), India ( LMI ), WPF ( Grands Prix ) and many others, and schedule your own rota. Look in the 'Pu...

Sam, A very warm welcome to you :) Nice to see a lurker step out of the shadows. I'm sure there are more there, that will hopefully follow your 'brave' step. There are a huge number of sudoku (and logic puzzle) competitions running all the time, for you to enjoy and, if you wish, hone your competiti...

The 2018 UK Sudoku Championship will take place over the weekend of 9-10th June 2018 (12:00 8th June to 23:59 11th June) The 2018 UK Puzzle Championship will be held 2 weeks later, over the weekend of 23-24 June 2018 (12:00 22nd June to 23:59 25th June) The championships will take place online, on ...

Round 3 (Denmark) this weekend...

I've decided not to renew the domain, so it has now expired.

However, the site is still available at http://ukpuzzles.org/uk2014.org/ ... and will remain there "for ever"

Yeah, that sounds like a good target market for garnering interest, thanks Chris.

!remindme 9 months

Dang. I was fully intending coming this year.

However, it's right in the middle of exam season.

Hopefully next year...

Yay. I see it's a single paper this year. cool.

So I have the IB now, but just remembered my printer is knackered. (the drum needs replacing). groan...

I was disappointed to miss it. An email a day or two before the event would have been a nice reminder.

From here : "... due to technical and administrative issues it is becoming increasingly impossible to be able to continue operating nikoli.com" "For the future, and already in the works, Nikoli is developing a new puzzle site to replace nikoli.com. We will release information about the new site here...

Count me in!

detuned wrote: ↑

Fri 17 Nov, 2017 1:52 pm

Thanks for the explanation Fred, that makes sense

Yeah, that makes more sense! At the end of the 4th day, the bee is already dead, but we were all counting it anyway.

If anyone reads this far, spoilers really needn't be necessary. OK, I can see where the 200 comes from. If: 1) No bees die! 2) and his counting is out. At the end of the 19th day, there are 179 bees <=4 days, and 21 > 4 days. I suppose technically he says "how many bees" rather than "how many live b...

I have an app called 'logic games' on my phone (logo is 2 grey cogs). "Free on iOS, Android and WP" by Andrea Sabbatini. There are dozens of familiar puzzle types you can practice, including Clouds... Ooh, what a good recommendation! Dozens and dozens of puzzle formats to practice there. Thank you ...

You want videos? Here is a time-lapse combination of the whole double championship: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_rLIKiJVM2blNj4fOgG_PuKgG721pslL and some other videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb87WVuOyiSZ8XqweywWFQzUIdBrpL3er (All but the first one are of the cultural show)

Thanks for doing these vlogs Neil - much appreciated.

berni wrote: ↑

Sat 21 Oct, 2017 8:47 pm

You mean Chech, don't you?!? Or has there been a change?

Yes of course. Fixed.

In the World Sudoku Championship (WSC), the UK team finished in 6th place, tying for their best ever performance. Team: David McNeill, Tom Collyer, Mark Goodliffe and Heather Golding. Further congratulations to David and Mark who were the top two competitors respectively in the 'over 50' category. I...

Very creditable performance from UK A and B teams. Well done all! The A team finished 6th, and the B team finished with a higher score than many other A teams, not to mention ending up ahead of USA-B. We don't leave empty handed though. David and Mark claimed 1st and 2nd place respectively in the ov...