UK Puzzle Association

Round 3 this weekend - India

Hi rob - I missed this over the weekend, I can't imemdiately see the passwords for the files. Will these be published for anyone who wants to have an unofficial go at the contest after time?

Liane - re Friday night and the weather, I'm tempted, but do you happen to know the rates the hotel are quoting? Are they as good as t'internet?

Brevity vs. Accuracy is of course a balancing act - but I maintain that the idea represented by "XXX cannot touch, not even diagonally" can be stated far more accurately without sacrificing much in the way of brevity. It's horrible, horrible wording :-) And of course it's nothing really to do with t...

Round 6 - filename suggests puzzles are by Nikola, the file itself says Tawan Round 5 - I'm being anal here, but I don't think the rules to Rassi Silai are stated properly. If ropes are entirely self contained within their respective regions, how on earth is it possible for the ends to touch? Even i...

A bit of shameless self-plugging, but I've done a guest video. This hopefully gives a good insight into how I go about solving...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tEK7k6jTmg

Round 2 is this weekend if you havent already seen

Round 2 this weekend: http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/201802/

Dates in the original post were wrong (I copy and pasted from the Sudoku gp thread) - you haven’t missed anything yet Alan. 1st round is 9th to 12th of Feb

That was definitely easy to miss! How does the mechanism for that work? Via an email? Or a webform?

Once again the GP website proves to be as clear as mud....

A thread for the 2018 Series of the WPF's flagship online competition, under the continued directorship of Wei-Hwa Huang. The rather confusion A/B/C divisions business has been lost, which is perhaps a pity but is probably also understandable given the extra strain it put on contributing authors. Th...

According to the results, 11 UK solvers: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201801/score.asp 9 Neil Zussman 31 Saul Glasman 68 Emma With an honourable mention to James McGowan in 16th place :roll: Looks like a very easy set for the 90 minutes, with Ken Endo blasting through them in just over 20 minutes...

Round 1 results up. I thought that was a tough set. I'm a bit annoyed to have wasted a bit of time convincing myself that the "Sum Next to 9" was impossible, and still haven't worked out what is going on with the magic square. But otherwise a good run for me, even accounting for a silly mistake ente...

According to the public LMI profiles: David McNeill - looks like a promising solver ;) Let's hope he can kick on from a reasonably good first round and clock some bonus time in the next rounds Matthew White - I recognise the name. I'm not quite sure whether that's from a previous UK Open or from a T...

Mark Goodliffe & Simon Anthony have a youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-UOdK8-mIjxBQm_ot1T-Q This is mostly off-topic, focusing on Cryptic Crosswords, however there is the occasional run through of The Times "super-fiendish" classic sudoku, and "deadly" killer sudoku. The Sudoku v...

A belated thread for this Indian series of competitions. Overall info is here: http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018sm.asp The 1st round has been and gone already I'm afraid, but there are another 5 to go. Results are here: http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/201801/score.asp As with the Puzzle contest, ...

A series of 6 logic puzzle contests starts this weekend (26th-29th January) Overall competition details are here: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2018pr.asp Round 1 details are here: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201801/ These can be a bit quirky with difficulties/styles, depending on the mood of ...

A thread for the 2018 Series of the WPF's flagship online competition, under the continued directorship of Nikola Zivanovic.

The 1st round starts this weekend (26th-29th January), instructions now available:

http://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/sudoku-gp

Thanks for the explanation Fred, that makes sense

In case anyone doesn't want this spoiled, select the following text with your mouse... That's odd Tom - I couldn't see anything to select - but when I hit the quote tab I could see your text. I'd got the same as you. It's definitely there - you can't immediately see it as I deliberately changed the...

In case anyone doesn't want this spoiled, select the following text with your mouse... So there are 4 possible ages of bees: 0, 1, 2, or 3 days old - 4 years old would mark the end of a bee's 4th year, which is when we're told it dies. At the end of day t lets denote the numbers of those bees by a(t...

So the Today programme on radio 4 have been broadcasting brainteasers for a while, which you can have a look at here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p057wxwl It's an eclectic mix to say the least, but every now and again there's something interesting. #90 (November 3rd) has caught my attention toda...

The Japanese have no sponsor either. They seemed to do semi-decently this year

Next year is in Prague, Czech Republic, not Slovakia

Spoiler - I won :D I've done a write up here: https://tcollyer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/times-sudoku-championship-2017.html It's always really good to catch up with the usual crowd, Mike C, Mark G, Heather G, David C, George D, Stephen G, Ken J, and everyone else who I'm forgetting right now, hopefull...