UK Puzzle Association

I agree, that was a lovely set, thanks for the puzzles and running the competition!

Just FYI, looks like the "Contest discussion" link to this thread on the contest page is broken (the & is HTML-encoded).

We're running a killer sudoku contest at logic-masters.de this weekend: https://logic-masters.de/Wettbewerbe/wettbewerb.php?id=110 (from 12:00 Friday CEST to 23:59 Monday CEST). Including wonderful puzzles by your very own David McNeill and Tom Collyer. Hoping some of you take part and enjoy the con...

Hi, just a quick heads up that the German qualifiers are on this weekend (until Monday night). English language instructions at http://logic-masters.de/dokumente/LM2018/LM2018_Vorrunde_Anleitung_en.pdf, and the contest page is at https://logic-masters.de/LM/2018/vr_wettbewerb.php. Thanks to James fo...

I've also been having fun with this, I think it has huge potential. Regarding the interface, I'd prefer to not have to click twice, i.e., button down, move to number, button up. That would also make it easier to abort by releasing anywhere else, which is tricky currently. As to number of players, I ...

Haha, Deb just showed me a link where someone had gone off on one about kakuro in general, and how my puzzle magnified everything he hated about the puzzle. Anyhow - here are some thoughts: - Generally there is only one break-in when I put together something as big as this. This tends to be towards...

How do you deduce this? Why would 333444 ....4. ....2. ....2. not work? OK, I skipped a mental step. How could the 2 only achieve 2 neighbours now? (But I think you saw that eventually) Yes. I still don't see a good argument for deducing that it's 444433 ....3. ....3. ....3. and not something else,...

Did the puzzle need trial end error to solve? Not at all ;) See walkthrough below. (You'll need to scroll, and I've used letters to replace piece sizes once they are placed) With given clues, we must have: 444433 (In this row, 4s are 1 piece (I); 3s are part of 1 piece.) ....3. ....3. ....3. Alan H...

Thanks for the contest. Quite a few nice puzzles here. I particularly enjoyed the top-heavy sudoku. The frameless sudoku was also great. I found the small consecutive sudoku quite hard -- thankfully I gave up quickly enough during the contest. I still haven't solved the Futoshiki and the no3-consecu...

I'm getting SQL errors when submitting the form. Is this happening to anyone else?

Edit: Looks like the submissions still got through. Thanks for the test!