UK Puzzle Association

Timings for each competition are not fully confirmed yet but are expected to be 10am to 5pm.

The UKPA are looking forward to hosting the on site Sudoku and Puzzle Tournaments at a new venue - Museum of Making in Derby. The Sudoku event will take place on 1st April and the Puzzle event will take place on the 2nd April. The cost per event is £44 which includes lunch and refreshments throughou...

kiwijam wrote: ↑Wed 27 Jul, 2022 11:45 pm Trying to wrap this up soon, so similarly for the WPC team: can we please get initial indications from Maurice Blount,

Maurice is joining us for the full week, but not taking part in the WSC.

Please can Anthony Ford confirm whether he will be able to take his place by 29th July in order that the place can be confirmed or passed down. I've sent a couple of emails, so not sure whether they've reached you.

Congratulations to Freddie Hand who has won the UK Puzzle Championship for the first time, completing the double along his recent success at the UK Sudoku Championship. Freddie solved all of the 23 puzzles correctly with over 35 minutes to spare, a fantastic performance. It was a close run thing bet...

#12 Voxas - The answer key will only cover rows, not columns.

Please note there is an amended version of the instruction booklet available. The answer keys for #8 Shikaku and #12 Voxas have been amended to make them more user friendly.

detuned wrote: ↑Sat 25 Jun, 2022 8:56 pm Hi Liane - the contest page current states that the contest is 3 hours long - is that correct?

I've amended that. It's 2 1/2 hours as usual.

pinkagape wrote: ↑Sat 25 Jun, 2022 5:22 pm Hi Liane

Can you clarify whether for Pentopia it will be similar to the example that not all pentominoes must necessarily be placed, but there can be no repeats?

Yes, it's standard Pentopia rules that not all pentominoes need to be placed.

This is the discussion thread for the 2022 UK Puzzle Championship. Duration: 2 1/2 hours Dates: Friday 1st - Monday 4th July, 2022 Contest Page: https://ukpuzzles.org/contests.php?contestid=66 Instruction Booklet: Now available at the above link. Please post any questions about the competition here....

The 2 point Country Road is straightforward - you can see the order of areas for the path round the right side of the puzzle. Bottom left, you can see where it needs to go from the "1" into the areas above and to the side. I mark the blank cells and those which need to have a path in them ...

The 2022 UK Puzzle Championship will take place on the 1st - 4th July, 2022. Further details will be available shortly.

Thanks Adam for organising this again. I thought I'd done really badly on that last round - nothing seemed to go right at all. Been ploughing through the puzzles afterwards, but they're on the back burner now as more important things to do - preparation for the UKPC.

Thanks Jeffery, I had a good think on that one what I was going to do for my notation after I'd looked at the example.

Just jumped on to have a go at the GP before time ran out, then realised it was the UK round of which I'd test solved some of them. Doh!

I enjoyed that set of puzzles. Stupid answer key error on #1 - half way along the line I suddenly swapped my letters over . Solved all but one now - shape division (I'm really bad at these sort of puzzles), so if anyone can give me any pointers I'd appreciate it. Well done everyone.

Sorry Tom, not been on the forum for ages for various reasons - need to get it back into my daily routine. I'm up for this sort of thing and through the winter months am much more available at weekends than in the summer due to the horse commitments. I'd be up for evening events too - do we have det...

I'm still slowly working my way through them, but the logic on my part seems to have ended and am trying to guess methodically. Well done to everyone that did take part in particular Freddie.

Just seen your message Tom, so sorry I didn't join you last night. I'd got it in my head we were going to try later in the week.

Oh no, I missed it. I didn't read the finish time properly - I saw Tuesday listed as the date and naively assumed that meant that I had Tuesday on order to complete the test, and just logged in now to find the competition over. :( Sorry I didn't get to add one more to the participation total! Might...

Puzzle creators this year were: Helen Arnold: #3 Tapa, #11 Nurikabe, #12 Star Battle, #13 Four Winds, #14 Yajilin, #15 Pentopia, #16 Doppelblock, #19 Coral, #20 Gaps Bram de Laat: #8 Sashigane, #24 Hungarian Pentomino, #25 Kuromasu, #26 BACA, #31 Turning Fences Ashish Kumar: #1 Masyu, #4 Mochikoro, ...

The results of the 2021 UK Puzzle Championship have now been published. In what was a tougher competition this year, first place is awarded to James McGowan who amassed a total of 715 points pipping Freddie Hand with 692 points into 2nd place and Neil Zussman took 3rd place with 606 points. Congratu...

For what it's worth, I've plugged the contest in a couple of puzzly places, not least the 5,000-strong UK Escape Room Enthusiasts Facebook group, where two of the three moderators have played in previous UKPCs. There's not going to be perfect crossover, but hopefully it should attract a few people ...

The UKPC is now live. You have until the end of Monday to take part. Good luck and enjoy.

I've realised that there was an error in my scoring spreadsheet and as a result a few of the puzzles haven't been awarded enough points. The puzzles affected are: #8 Sashigane (20), #24 Hungarian Pentomino (45), #25 Kuromasu (79), #25 BACA (59), #31 Turning Fences (69). I've also spotted an error in...