UK Puzzle Association

Really interesting - thanks everyone

Great question - I'm looking forward to the answer too!

Thank you. This year Tony imposed a hard stop at 1330 even though we didn't begin until noticeably after 1000 - I think last year the printing problems meant it virtually ran into the start of the afternoon sessions at 1400. The ability for people attending the full MSO to turn up on the spur of the...

The 2025 event took place yesterday. I am pleased to see from the website that I came first, continuing the UKPA tradition! There were ten competitors, including some attending the full MSO programme and some from a junior team from South Korea. Tony Corfe, the organiser, commented on your absence, ...

Sudoku IB R3 - Surplus Sudoku - I think R2C4 should be 2 rather than 3

Thanks for the clarification. That explains why I am 20th (for the UK!) on the official Sudoku GP website but I don't appear on the Sudoku GP list here.

It was good to see you both - congratulations on your medal positions.

Great summaries - I'm glad it wasn't just me struggling with the Classics!

Hi. I'm just back from attending a session with Paris - I do satisfy the 40+ criterion ... by a decent margin! It was an interesting way to spend an hour or so and I look forward to hearing the results of this worthwhile study in due course. It was pretty straightforward and didn't involve any signi...

Thanks both of you. Yes, I was surprised - I briefly wondered too when I didn't see you or Tom! Some were from a South Korean team attending the overall event, one or two were first-timers and one or two were competitors in other MSO events. This year involved 8 Classic, 6 Diagonal, 8 Killer and 8 K...

This year's event took place on Tuesday 22 August at JW3. There were nine contenders, although the field lacked Neil, Tom and other familiar faces.

I won gold, Sunseong Kwon won silver and Chris Tucker won bronze - https://mindsportsolympiad.com/2023-medals/

The RMT rail union has announced its intention to hold further strike action on Saturday 1st April (and other dates). I suggest that those intending to travel by rail to the UKPA Open events should check any potential impact now and continue to monitor the situation over the coming weeks. https://ww...

Well done Paul. Thank you, Adam, for organising this series of events. My enduring dislike of puzzles that involve drawing lines and shading boxes, er, endures, but I promise to continue trying ... if only to stop Liane from giving me a hard time about my blinkered sudokucentricity ! Best wishes, Da...

pinkagape wrote: ↑Thu 17 Feb, 2022 9:46 am Yes, that’s perhaps clearer. The numbers must all be connected along edges to make one group.

Thanks

Nanro is one of my favourite types. Here is my guide. This looks an interesting type for me to get to grips with. So, based on the pink example, "single connected group" actually means "single edge-connected group"? Apologies if this is obvious to everyone else, but I am still s...

Thank you to those of you who took part in the various video discussions. I haven't watched them all yet - the shortest of the five is three quarters of an hour! - but I have enjoyed a couple of them already. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGY12L ... A/featured

Thanks Adam - I mistakenly thought that everything started on Saturday

David

Great, thanks

Silly question time. I am confused by the bottom of the second new example. To achieve the required 3 tents in row 6, the only three trees that reach them orthogonally are r6c2, r6c4 and r7c7. r7c7 puts a tent in r6c7 which drives the other two to be in c1 and c4 to avoid tents touching. Then, becau...

Thanks for the reminder, Tom. Well done tonight - hopefully your medal position will be formally confirmed in due course. I am happy enough with apparent-13th simply because I managed to log on and register successfully this year after a logistical nightmare last year when I failed to actually compe...

david mcneill wrote: ↑Fri 11 Jun, 2021 12:41 pm At the risk of intertwining quite different threads (see Deuteronomy 22:11), it was the contents that fell short of the mark.

David, what a wonderful pun to invoke such an appropriate quote!

david mcneill wrote: ↑Tue 08 Jun, 2021 9:02 am Sorry Tom. I wasn't available to join you last night. Under instructions to augment my wardrobe.

Structure or contents, David?!

David

Thanks - I'm sorry I didn't manage to submit this time. Incidentally, I find it interesting and mentally challenging that blocking out stuff is actually a positive rather than negative aspect to this puzzle. Perhaps I need to think of it and/or mark it in a different way, as I naturally think of the...

Thank you all for your responses. As someone who is used to the rigour of being required to get 81/81 correct (either absolutely or to definitively identify a well-constructed answer key), it may take me a little while to adjust to the acceptable bounds in this weird parallel universe of scribbling ...

Re. my testing time: for very easy puzzles, writing speed is certainly a huge factor, and may play more of a role than logical ability. Thanks, this is a fascinating comment. As someone from the sudoku side of the community, I have occasionally tried odd tweaks like changing the way I have written ...

Although the instructions to fillomino tell you to place a number in each cell, most of the time I will instead draw borders to identify regions of connected cells, and then maybe write in the relevant size In one representative cell of the region. It certainly saves a bit of time doing it that way...