UK Puzzle Association

Congratulations to Mark Goodliffe, who has won the Over 50s World Sudoku title!

Congratulations also to Calum Mailer for finishing in the top 3 of Newcomers in the same event.

This coming week, the 2023 World Sudoku Championship (WSC) and World Puzzle Championship (WPC) take place in Toronto, Canada. The final results, and hopefully regular intermediate results, will be published on the championships website at https://wspc2023.com The UK Puzzle Association wishes the bes...

mwhite wrote: ↑Sat 25 Mar, 2023 10:25 pm Puzzle Round 1 Puzzle 10 (Skyscrapers) - the example is incorrect. I think the 4 and the 3 on the left hand side are both one row too high.

I agree.

Happy new year, and welcome!

Welcome Amanda,

You'll certainly find plenty of different types of sudoku here!

Take a look through some of the past sudoku contests on the Puzzle Contests page.

Alan

The forum has been misbehaving for a few days now. I have upgraded the phpBB software on the 3rd attempt. It seems largely ok now, but I'm not convinced everything is perfect. What is fixed: - style sheets are showing the pages correctly - new topics, and replies to conversations are working - unrea...

Hi Andrea! Pleased to see you back up and running.

For those that don't know, Andrea submitted some puzzles for our earlier UKPCs

The addictive kwontomloop (Fences/Slitherlink) site now has a variations daily puzzle too. https://kwontomloop.com/var/index.php

There are 5 or 6 styles. I'm enjoying this new daily challenge. I expect some of you might too.

Thanks Tawan, I'll have a go!

Och. There were only 3 days left to submit when this was posted. Would love to have fully competed...

Tawan, please post earlier next time. Thanks - I love your puzzles

Welcome jupilogy - hope you have fun!

Welcome! Everyone starts somewhere. You can try any of our past contests, to get more experienced at online contests. In the puzzle links forum you will find links to all sorts of competitions, past and present. If you have any questions on how to solve anything, do post a request for help. (though ...

Welcome! Good luck to you too.

UK Sudoku Championship 2020 - This will be held online at our contest page , Fri 12th to Mon 15th June 2020. For more details, including the opportunity to ask questions, please refer to the competition thread here: http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2097 UK Puzzle Championship 2020...

Have a look at the other subforums here...

In the meantime, I'd add the following recommendations:

http://puzzlepicnic.com/

https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Uebersicht.htm

Glad to hear all went smoothly, and a good time was had by all. So sorry I couldn't be there this year.

Thanks Liane for organising this weekend's events. Well done.Very much appreciated by everyone!

Thank you also to all the puzzle compilers, the test solvers, and to all that competed!

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It is expressly forbidden to discuss anything regarding an ongoing contest.

Following the conclusion of the online UK Sudoku Championship a week ago, and the UKPA Open Sudoku tournament earlier this year, the UK A-team for the upcoming WSC can now be announced: David McNeill Tom Collyer Sam Cappelman-Lynes Neil Zussman 1st reserve: Mark Goodliffe 2nd reserve: Heather Goldin...

The 2019 UK Sudoku Championship will take place over the weekend of 8th-9th June 2019 (15:00 7th June to 23:59 10th June) The 2019 UK Puzzle Championship will be held 2 weeks later, over the weekend of 22nd-23rd June 2018 (15:00 21st June to 23:59 24th June) The championships will take place online...

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4th 2nd place! Well done Neil!

(Edit: Oops! apologies Neil. That's fantastic!)

You can but grip matting online, or even at some supermarkets. Not that expensive, and might help.

Welcome Chris!

There's plenty practice material here for you.
Perhaps head to the contests tab on the main site, and try the old UK sudoku (and puzzle!) championships.

Yes, hope to see you, and many more new puzzlers, at the 2019 Open events!

Lunch break. No results yet...

Thanks Chris.

3rd round is in progress right now.
I will post updates as and when we get them