Just to add to Adam's post on round 2 of the Sudoku GP - unfortunately this did happen to clash with the UK Open, which looks as if it's affected the UK participation for this round. The top 3 were:
82 Matt Siegfried 463
103 Mark Goodliffe 422
130 Ned Walker 374
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- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2024 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 727
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: 2024 UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5328
Re: 2024 UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament
Have we posted the results and/or the photos from the event yet? Would be good to give ourselves a bit of belated publicity if not
- Sat 10 Feb, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2024 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 727
Re: 2024 UK Results Thread
Puzzle GP Round 1 - despite the ongoing technical difficulties with the website, it looks like a pretty good showing from the UK based on the preliminary results. Well done especially to both Freddie and Sam who finished the set within time! Top 3 UK: 8 Freddie Hand 789.5 (this rank could go up if o...
- Sun 28 Jan, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2024 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 727
Re: 2024 UK Results Thread
Also - Adam do you maintain these rankings anywhere where people can see them? Is it the sort of thing that could go up on a Google sheet for instance?
- Sun 28 Jan, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2024 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 727
Re: 2024 UK Results Thread
Well done for setting up a thread Adam! 1000+ people took part in round 1, but alas not me. Probably also worth highlighting that Sam managed to finish the set, which is always a nice achievement.
Top 3 UK:
25 Sam Capppleman-Lynes 613
71 Jack Lawrence 451
106 Matt Siegfried 402
Top 3 UK:
25 Sam Capppleman-Lynes 613
71 Jack Lawrence 451
106 Matt Siegfried 402
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
- Topic: Slash Pack
- Replies: 2
- Views: 882
Re: Slash Pack
Couple of things come to mind - I think you need quite good visualisation skills to simultaneously play around with a couple of ideas that might work and go with one. I also think there’s quite a lot of uniqueness you can use to guide the visualisation - some of the solutions for some of the harder ...
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 12:28 pm
- Forum: Daily Puzzles
- Topic: Puzzle Duel
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2501
Re: Puzzle Duel
Hey Adam, definitely worth a post! For what it’s worth I think there are now a new generation of solvers who are far more intuitive than before - and I suppose you’d have to say it’s not exactly random guesswork if the same people keep doing so well using it (which isn’t to say these people are alwa...
- Mon 18 Sep, 2023 1:34 pm
- Forum: Puzzle (incl. Sudoku) Rules & Tips
- Topic: Slitherlink
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1888
Re: Slitherlink
Bram’s guide from way back remains highly relevant!
https://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com/201 ... de_23.html
https://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com/201 ... de_23.html
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 4:55 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
The final Sudoku GP scores (up to the top 200 I arbitrarily decided on earlier!) 60 Jack Lawrence 2808 80 Mark Goodliffe 2604 81 Tom Collyer 2597 95 Calum Mailer 2494 100 Matt Siegfried 2441 135 Matthew White 2125 168 Adam Bissett 1965 199 Howard Wilkinson 1824 And the Puzzle GP leaderboard looks li...
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
Last round up, and the final scores: Sudoku GP Round 7: 52 Jack Lawrence 520 points 85 Matt Siegfried 453 128 Howard Wilkinson 373 Puzzle GP Round 7: 2 Freddie Hand 877.8 14 Neil Zussman 688 26 James McGowan 594 Adam Bissett, Matthew White and Jeremy Kong all made the top 100 as well. Sudoku GP Roun...
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Results of 2023 UK Puzzle Championship
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2646
Re: Results of 2023 UK Puzzle Championship
Brief update here - I don't think Josh Bao is from the UK (E.g. he's listed as Singapore on the Puzzle GP rankings, although as USA on the Sudoku GP rankings, which is... weird - or maybe two different people?) Perhaps we need to make sure that the default country during registration is empty, rathe...
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
- Replies: 59
- Views: 113065
Re: Puzzles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in London on Sunday
Congrats David, I was just thinking about this. Great to see a few more competitors - maybe last year was bad luck with the scheduling or something. Yes, as it turned out I was away in Scotland last week with very little prospect of being able to get back to London in time - just the way of things I...
- Thu 29 Jun, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 Puzzle Grand Prix
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2279
Re: 2023 Puzzle Grand Prix
That one resolves itself reasonably quickly: R1C1 is a 2-snake going right or down. If down then things break quickly: - R3C1 must go right (if down it’d be a 2-snake adjacent to another 2-snake, which is forbidden). Let’s call this A. - similarly R1C2 goes down. Let’s call this B. - A and B don’t j...
- Wed 28 Jun, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
With 6 rounds completed, it's worth having a look at the overall standings. No real rhyme or reason to this, but I'll focus on those round about the top 200 as things stand: Puzzle GP: 7 Freddie Hand 4259.1 (note this is 5 rounds worth rather than 6) 22 Neil Zussman 3510.2 25 James McGowan 3402 81 A...
- Wed 28 Jun, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
GP round 6 summary, thanks again Adam for being ahead of me! Sudoku GP round 6: 54 Mark Goodliffe 511 62 Jack Lawrence 475 84 Tom Collyer 439 Also in the top 100 were Matt Siegfried, Calum Mailer; Jeremy Kong was just outside. Puzzle GP round 6: 3 Freddie Hand 948.5 30 James McGowan 564 42 Tom Colly...
- Mon 05 Jun, 2023 7:32 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
Quick round 5 results summary, to follow on from Adam's analysis: Not a vintage set of results in the Sudoku GP: 85 Calum Mailer 436 91 Jack Lawrence 418 131 Adam Bissett 360 Better news in the Puzzle GP: 16 Neil Zussman 609 20 James McGowan 607 23 Freddie Hand 561 David McNeill also made the top 50...
- Thu 01 Jun, 2023 7:56 am
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle Duel Leagues
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3899
Re: Puzzle Duel Leagues
My original thought that it was an April Fools' seems to have been wide of the mark. I'm interested to see what will happen at the end of the month as it appears that puzzles are 'live' for the normal five days so I'm not quite sure at what point they will confirm any promotion/relegation. It does ...
- Mon 29 May, 2023 3:58 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: Puzz.link
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2337
Re: Puzz.link
Interesting - I suppose whilst people are still posting puzzles on twitter there might be a case to try and crowd-fund a monthly fee given how many people were using it - it might be possible to cover the $100 a month level for example. On the other hand, I wonder if people will stop using twitter t...
- Sat 27 May, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: Puzz.link
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2337
Puzz.link
Thought it would be worth advertising Rob V’s site
https://puzz.link/db/
Although as I post, I notice that the database seems to have stopped picking up links on Twitter. Does anyone know why?
https://puzz.link/db/
Although as I post, I notice that the database seems to have stopped picking up links on Twitter. Does anyone know why?
- Sat 06 May, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
Adam - re your rankings, would be interesting to see how that compares to the rankings the WPF have been working on. Maybe it's worth a separate thread to try and have a more representative UK ranking overall - my feeling is the most credible such rankings need to reflect offline rankings - so perha...
- Thu 20 Apr, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
Preliminary results for Sudoku GP round 4. A few of the usual suspects were involved in setting the puzzles for this round - perhaps as a result the top 3 has spilled out over the (arbitrary) top 100 benchmark
74. Mark Goodliffe 446
85. Calum Mailer 418
124. Matt Siegfried 367
74. Mark Goodliffe 446
85. Calum Mailer 418
124. Matt Siegfried 367
- Thu 20 Apr, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
My usual format summary for Puzzle GP round 3:
21. Neil Zussman 592
30. James McGowan 567
69. Matthew White 453
Just behind Matthew was Emma McCaughan, and a little further back floating around position 100 were Jeremy Kong, Adam Bissett and Tom Collyer
21. Neil Zussman 592
30. James McGowan 567
69. Matthew White 453
Just behind Matthew was Emma McCaughan, and a little further back floating around position 100 were Jeremy Kong, Adam Bissett and Tom Collyer
- Thu 20 Apr, 2023 8:34 am
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: TV Application: “puzzling”
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5276
TV Application: “puzzling”
A friend of mine saw an ad asking for applications for a new TV show - this might be of interest to a puzzling audience
More details plus the form at this link:
https://www.12yard.com/shows/puzzling/
I don’t have any more information than that for now
More details plus the form at this link:
https://www.12yard.com/shows/puzzling/
I don’t have any more information than that for now
- Mon 17 Apr, 2023 12:25 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Puzzle Duel Leagues
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3899
Re: Puzzle Duel Leagues
Not sure what I make of it as a system, I suppose it depends on what it’s trying to achieve. 1) first metric being total solved puzzles with no errors obviously penalises those who miss day here and there - and also with mistakes - once you stop from 100% there is no way to recover. I imagine the pr...
- Sat 25 Mar, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: 2023 UK Results Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14078
Re: 2023 UK Results Thread
Sudoku GP round 3 results - apologies for a bit of a delay!
68 Tom Collyer 451
95 Jack Lawrence 399
102 Jeremy Kong 391
Honourable mentions to Adam Bissett who was very narrowly behind Jeremy, and to Mark Goodliffe who was a bit further back outside the top 100
68 Tom Collyer 451
95 Jack Lawrence 399
102 Jeremy Kong 391
Honourable mentions to Adam Bissett who was very narrowly behind Jeremy, and to Mark Goodliffe who was a bit further back outside the top 100