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- Mon 19 Aug, 2019 10:14 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
- Replies: 45
- Views: 59690
Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Good luck to everyone solving in either contest tomorrow!
- Sun 04 Nov, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Good luck to the UK teams in Prague!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12577
Good luck to the UK teams in Prague!
The World Sudoku Championships start on Monday, the World Puzzle Championships on Thursday. Fingers firmly crossed for you all that you can make yourselves proud of your performances!
- Thu 16 Aug, 2018 4:30 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
- Replies: 45
- Views: 59690
Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
It's that time of the year again... This year, Thursday is the new Sunday, and the MSO have scheduled contests for Thursday 23rd August - a week today from the time of posting. Excitingly, there are two contests this year: the afternoon contest features "various puzzles" as described on the schedule...
- Mon 05 Feb, 2018 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: How to reach a lot of university maths society people at once
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8997
How to reach a lot of university maths society people at once
There's an event being held at Imperial College London this Saturday called mathscon . Mathscon is a series of science events, consisting of a conference and a networking social. It is directed at undergraduates, young researchers and science lovers in general. Each event aims to expose the public t...
- Sat 03 Feb, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2018 Puzzle GP
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13600
Re: 2018 Puzzle GP
Taking a look at the rules, there's an additional tweak in that people are invited to nominate exceptional puzzle designs within the contest for recognition. Some of the wording in the rules seems a shade confusing, but I really like the general principle behind it, and fingers firmly crossed that t...
- Sun 22 Oct, 2017 6:02 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: World Championships 2017- Updates
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15658
Re: World Championships 2017- Updates
I too add my thanks - and congratulations, especially to the A-team; finishing in the top quarter of the team rankings is a superb result!
- Tue 29 Aug, 2017 6:15 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
- Replies: 45
- Views: 59690
Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
As far as I am aware, 2011 was the first event of "the modern era". Detailed results are available under the Results dropdown list at http://www.msoworld.com/ . There was a Puzzle Solving event in 1998 : I don't know the format but it sounds too early and I don't recognise any of the names involved...
- Sat 19 Aug, 2017 8:20 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
- Replies: 45
- Views: 59690
Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
It's (just about) that time of year again. The Sunday in question is not tomorrow, but the MSO's traditional sudoku and KenKen tournament takes place on the morning of Sunday 27th August. Details, as in previous years, are available on the MSO web site.
- Thu 10 Aug, 2017 6:18 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle GP round 7
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11544
Re: Puzzle GP round 7
The round 8 instruction booklets are up now. The C paper seems to have lots and lots of unusually light puzzles, which I don't mind a bit, and the A paper has some wonderful-looking combinations of familiar formats. We used to joke about the likes of Magnetic Battletent Snakescrapers; never a truer ...
- Sun 06 Aug, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
- Topic: Clouds
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18702
Re: Clouds
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 ...
- Sun 30 Jul, 2017 8:20 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: The Hunt for Justice
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7173
Re: The Hunt for Justice
A good point well made. I observe, only mostly tongue in cheek, that the hunt would be 1:30am to 9:30am Indian Standard Time on the early hours of Sunday 22nd October when the championships are over and people have no further plans on the Sunday apart from departures. Assuming there's good Internet ...
- Sat 29 Jul, 2017 7:58 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: The Hunt for Justice
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7173
The Hunt for Justice
The Hunt for Justice is an online puzzle hunt which will take place on the evening (UK time) of Saturday October 21st. Teams play from wherever they like around the world, but must register in advance by August 1st - i.e., this Tuesday. There is an entry fee of US$90 per team (2-4 recommended, but ...
- Wed 28 Jun, 2017 1:46 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Results: 2017 UK Puzzle Championship
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20028
Re: Results: 2017 UK Puzzle Championship
I'm delighted to see quite so many different UK solvers taking part; off the top of my head I think 29 is a considerable leap forward from a previous best of 25. Curious to know why the time limit was only two hours rather than two and a half; I suspect solvers could well have been kept busy for ano...
- Thu 22 Jun, 2017 8:15 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UK Puzzle Championship 2017 / WPC Qualification
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13974
Re: UK Puzzle Championship 2017 / WPC Qualification
Thank you for your hard work!kiwijam wrote:If people are wanting some practise puzzles, I've collected 32 puzzles from last year's WPC that match types in this weekend's UKPC.
- Wed 21 Jun, 2017 11:17 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Bot registrations
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23087
Re: Bot registrations
Shouldn't make much difference in reality. I will reopen self-registration nearer the time of the the UK championship season, when hopefully this madness dies down a bit. I'm about to plug the UKPC somewhere fairly soon. Is self-registration available again now, please, for those who might want to ...
- Mon 19 Jun, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UKPA Hall of Fame
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22369
Re: UKPA Hall of Fame
A .pdf document saved by archive.org has a full chart of results from 1992 to 2010, including the full details of the UK '96 performances. It shouldn't be impossible to bring this chart up to date and I rather hope that someone, somewhere (ideally at the WPF itself) is doing so.
- Fri 16 Jun, 2017 3:06 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UKPA Hall of Fame
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22369
Re: UKPA Hall of Fame
Someone wrote in 2004 on the matter: "Strangely enough, your referencing Tim's site has led to the first time I've ever seen the full horror of the UK's first participation in WPC... all four team members finished in the bottom six, which may well be the Most Hopeless WPC Team Evah! Having said that...
- Fri 16 Jun, 2017 2:57 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UKPA Hall of Fame
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22369
Re: UKPA Hall of Fame
I may be able to dig a little data out when I'm back off shift and on my main PC at these other end of the country. Nick Deller may remember more, but I believe the team was made up of four staff members from a puzzle magazine who may have been the UK WPC member at the time.
- Wed 14 Jun, 2017 10:27 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: UKPA Hall of Fame
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22369
Re: UKPA Hall of Fame
Good list; very good list! Pleased to see the acknowledgement of David McNeill's world class WSC performance in 2007. By a similar token, I would argue that it's worth celebrating strong qualification performances in the pre-UKPA days. I put together the data about three years ago - while it's a lit...
- Fri 26 May, 2017 8:41 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: Jack Hurst's puzzle blog
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11733
Re: Jack Hurst's puzzle blog
He has a lifetime record of 16-1 at Countdown, so that might be where you heard of him. Never played Neil, though! (Jack played later by about a year.)
- Tue 23 May, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: Jack Hurst's puzzle blog
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11733
Jack Hurst's puzzle blog
Jack Hurst, who I don't know personally but believe to be a co-worker of a friend, has started a puzzle blog . The word puzzles there are cute enough. As he says in his first post, " I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time in recent months working on a software project to help me compile different...
- Thu 04 May, 2017 10:33 pm
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: How'd we get puzzles at the Olympics, or something like it?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11230
How'd we get puzzles at the Olympics, or something like it?
I tend to believe that plugging my puzzly, escape-room-y blog would not generally be wildly welcome here; that said, my most recent post, on the titular question, may be of interest . Executive summary: aside from the question of whether or not you'd want to, while the answer to the first half of th...
- Sun 19 Feb, 2017 12:29 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Trinity College Cambridge online puzzle hunt next week
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12192
Re: Trinity College Cambridge online puzzle hunt next week
If you know of any more events, do post again. Just found out about Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2017 in a similar style from March 14th to 23rd. The hint system is different - notably, you'll get to ask yes/no questions for the hints you want, rather than for canned hints - and the tone of the rubric (and...
- Sat 18 Feb, 2017 12:14 am
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: Red Bull Escape Room World Championship
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10562
Re: Red Bull Escape Room World Championship
Yes! I have met three of them and consider them to be thoroughly lovely people, to the point where the fourth must surely be thoroughly lovely by association at the very least. Mark runs Puzzled Pint in Manchester, and I talked both Mark and Ken (among others) into taking part in the online UK puzzl...
- Wed 01 Feb, 2017 6:08 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Trinity College Cambridge online puzzle hunt next week
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12192
Re: Trinity College Cambridge online puzzle hunt next week
The best way to keep up with such things is the Puzzle Hunt Calendar . Second best way would be my blog, but if you're only going to follow one, go for the calendar. :) Now we have an emergent puzzle community in Cambridge, of course, we need to find ways to introduce them to other puzzle activities...