UK Puzzle Association

Congratulations James and Emma!

For those that haven't already seen, Round 6 is on this weekend (until Monday evening)

yeah, it looks like the example is missing a given or two

On the subject of the diagonal, Simon Anthony has posted a great walkthrough of his solve on youtube. It was not an easy puzzle, but I hope this demonstrates that it was a fair puzzle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1E7MUhT5C4

Congratulations to Sam Cappleman-Lynes, who has impressively claimed the UK Sudoku Championship on debut. Sam solved 14 of the 16 puzzles in a strong performance, and now qualifies for the UK team at the World Sudoku Championships later this year in Prague. Joining Sam on the team is runner-up Heath...

Traditionally I always say I'm going to do answer booklets and end up being too tired after the event to go back and do them. As I don't have the answers to hand, is there a particular puzzle you are interested in Angus?

Thanks - I thought the link was fixed but turns out it’s only in the admin version. Alan, could you fix please?

Also, an updated version of the instructions is now available, with points distribution.

One thing that has come up from the testing is a clarification to the rules of Puzzle 11 Consecutive Pairs. Not all possible pairs of cells have been marked! This means that it is possible for consecutive numbers to be placed in adjacent cells where there is no marking between them. This is the main...

Competition page and instructions are now live.

Note that the instructions do not yet have the points distribution. This will go live later this week, probably on Wednesday or Thursday. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

So as last year's winner (and therefore part of the top 12) I just received an e-mail inviting me to this year's championship. The date is set at Saturday 22nd September 2018. I imagine the qualifying puzzles will be appearing in the paper shortly - I haven't bought the Times this week though so it'...

For questions about the UKSC, please see this thread:

http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1812

The contest page is here:

(will be updated shortly)

This is the discussion thread for the 2018 UK Sudoku Championship. It will also act as the second qualifier for the UK A team competing at the World Sudoku Championships in Prague, Czech Republic to be held on the 4th-11th November 2018 (note that these dates also include time for the World Puzzle C...

I didn't get a chance to participate last weekend, but Neil did, and won the round. Nice going

Haven't been so great posting updates, but there's another round this weekend

Missed out a few rounds here, but Round 5 - Math (SIC) is live this weekend

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....