UK Puzzle Association

I see James must have diverted to the casual section and come back to the main comp. Seems he attempted 8 (6 correct) of the casual puzzles - he couldn't have done that in 5m34s, surely? I find it 'wrong' that someone with 21/22 (Ken) can beat someone with 22/22 (James) with a relatively small time ...

Thanks Mark.
Looking at my workings for #1, I see errors in my <10 arithmetic. Wow.
#3 I just didn't see...

OK, now that's over, can someone explain sequences 1&3 of the casual section please?
Ta.

Sudoku GP 1st round - 8.1. - 11.1.- Netherlands 2nd round - 5.2. - 8.2. - Serbia 3rd round - 4.3. - 7.3. - Czech republic 4th round - 1.4. - 4.4. - Russia 5th round - 29.4. - 2.5. - China 6th round - 27.5. - 30.5. - Japan 7th round - 24.6. - 27.6. - Italy 8th round - 22.7. - 25.7. - India Puzzle GP...

That was a bit harder than I was expecting. Lovely puzzles though...
Well done Tom (top Brit) and the 5 usual suspects that solved everything with time to spare!

RIP Florian!

The UK Puzzle Association are pleased to announce the 2016 UK Open Sudoku and UK Open Puzzle Tournaments . The Sudoku Tournament will be held on Saturday 27th February, 2016 and the Puzzle Tournament will be held from the evening of Saturday 27th and on Sunday 28th February, 2016. Both will take pla...

ITV has asked if we can get a small group of puzzlers together to film a piece for News at 10 tonight.
Would anyone be up for that? I've asked for details on time/location. Guessing early evening somewhere London or thereabouts...

Yeah. Gareth and I have both been asked to appear on Sky News to discuss this.
I solved the hanji quick enough, but the 'next stage' on gchq's site isn't opening very quickly (ie, at all!)

The bots simply are not getting through any more. The 'not a bot' button (plus a couple of other background checks) is surprisingly effective. The ones that do get through (1 or 2 per day at most) are done by real people, I believe. IP location checks usually flag these easily enough. In the past we...

This, like many other self-registration forums, is subject to a constant barrage of spam registrations. (c.100/day on here). I cannot investigate every registration attempt, so have to be fairly ruthless I'm afraid. Believe it or not, I lean on the side of leniency. However, in your specific case, y...

James is top Brit again... Stellar performance from 'masonjason' (Saul Glasman(?)) too! At the half-way mark, I was convinced I was going to finish this... In the end, I couldn't get the larger of the 4 galaxies out. Aborted, and went on to do the 4/5 galaxies (nice!) and the lower point ones Should...

Apparently the deadline has been extended by 24 hours.
http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/foru ... ?pid=20172

That'll give Neil and Tom (and Liane) a chance to beat me

Looking forward to this!

Thanks - I've fixed that claim. The PDF clearly has types created after 2012. eg, #94 onwards say "TVC 2013".
I believe Serkan is maintaining this catalogue anyway, and would be interested to hear of any not listed.

During a discussion in Sofia, someone mentioned there was a booklet published with all known 'many' Tapa variations.

I found it here, on the LMI TVC page. (Direct link to pdf download)/ I thought some others might be interested in it too.

There are 123 variations over the 48 pages.

furudo.erika wrote:with perhaps the exception of the final puzzle where I will be happy to not see its like again.

Hey, if it's good enough for the WPC play-off Puzzle GP Final...

Seriously though - I'm with you. That type of puzzle should be left in kids' puzzle magazines.

Excellent puzzles again from Tawan - highly recommended!
My favourites were 6,7,5 in that order, so well worth plugging away to see those.

... is there any way of getting the puzzles? Are they likely to be available at any stage? Realistically, that's at least one month away. Then they will only be available for personal use of paid up UKPA members. Even just having access to the WSC/WPC archive easily justifies the petty £15/year ind...

Full results published. Top post edited.

UK A-team stalwart and all-rounder David McNeill, from Belfast, won the Over-50 category at both events in Sofia last week. Mark Goodliffe took the WSC over-50 runner-up award. David is now the reigning World Senior Champion of both Sudoku and Puzzles. David was already World Senior Champion for Sud...

A good showing from the Brits! We were only outnumbered by India, USA and Japan. ( Results ) Well done to James, Neil and David on finishing in the top 20, with Tom just behind... Couldn't have picked a better WPC team! A very good showing from Steve, Emma, Saul (Glasman) and Mark. Then a very tight...

There are plenty here that enjoy a puzzle mystery hunt. At the normally inane quiz/trivia website Sporcle, they've put together a rather good little mystery hunt. http://www.sporcle.com/blog/2015/09/siapuzzlehunt/ Each of the 10 rounds is a standalone puzzle, with a meta answer (that can be checked ...

Well done Tom and Heather on the USSC! Tom would have made the US A-team, and Heather would be in the US B-team.

Started, and got 4 or 5 done before realising Scotland were playing France (RWC warm-up). So, you know, priorities...
Puzzles were a lot of fun though - will attempt the rest at a later date - Not tonight if I decide to do the LMI.
Nice to have these choices at this time of year