UK Puzzle Association

Hmm. Now I finally have time to play... oh well...

Note that the IB for the final online round (duration 90 mins) of this contest is available. http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201603/

You may start "Object Placement (PR 2015/16)" any time during the weekend of 26th to 28th Mar.

Puzzle: Gold - Neil Zussman Silver - Tom Collyer Bronze - Steve Barge Best newcomer - Jason Stroud; Best overseas - Zoltan Nemeth (HUN) Sudoku: Gold - Tom Collyer Silver - Mark Goodliffe Bronze - Heather Golding Best newcomer - Bob Kiddle; Best overseas - Valeria Losasso (ITA) Congratulations to all...

I see that this contest's deadline has been extended to 23:59:59 Tue 1 March 2016.

That gives everyone at the UK Open a decent chance to compete, and of course delays the time to start discussions until 01:30 Wed 2 March (since you can start and get the full 90 minutes right up to the deadline)

NEVER DISCUSS ACTIVE COMPS IN ANY WAY!

Thank-you.

Sudoku IBs: http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1446&start=0#p12957 Puzzle IBs: http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1446&start=0#p12961 There are still a few places remaining for any last minute waverers... contact liane@ukpuzzles.org to register your place! http://www.ukpuzzle...

Good work Liane!!

We have all 3 names : "David McBryan, 41, from Dublin, Wim Hulpia, 40, from Belgium and American-born Kelley Kirklin, 54, who lives in London, will each receive a GCHQ paperweight, pen and signed copy of the book Alan Turing Decoded, written by his nephew Dermot Turing." The BBC said Byran was from...

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.