UK Puzzle Association

Yes for the second half of the solve, entering speed is by far the main driver, there's not a lot to think about usually. I think you're right that Crossclimb is likely to be the only other puzzle where a laptop would help, I'll be interested to see how much your times improve if you do make that sw...

My instinct was to say that, yes I'm possibly faster at entering the numbers, but I guess I'm probably also a bit faster at spotting the logic. Hard to say which is the greater factor without watching your attempts. Presumably typing speed is the slightly bigger factor, it's not like I'm that much f...

Might try and do a blog at some point Chris - let's see how the bump back down to earth goes this week. For team round 6: this was cancelled as the puzzle was printed with a wrong clue, meaning the whole thing was unsolvable. We'd actually made pretty good progress with this as a team, and it'd hav...

Thanks for organising Tom!

I don't think those are quite the correct links, Liane, they link to a 'contest_setup' page (which in turn, correctly, says "You don't have permission to manage this contest", so no harm done)

pinkagape wrote: ↑Sat 27 Apr, 2024 9:18 pm Hooray! Neil arrived!

Yeah, thanks Tom for the reminder.
And thanks Adam for organising, and for accidently arranging the fixtures so that I didn't have to do the time-consuming sudoku!

Thanks for the report David. Sounds like the difficulty was similar to last year, so I don't regret not attending. If they're going to make the Killers different sizes, then it's a shame they don't make some 6*6s for the other types (but I suppose the risk is that too many people would finish... I'd...

Congrats David. Always good to improve the record of UKPA winners even further :) Surprised to hear about such a large turnout, especially given last year's event. When I decided not to go (and heard that Tom might not), a part of me thought you might be the only entrant! What was the event like? In...

Thanks as always to Liane for running everything. Definitely tougher this year, but an interesting change in the puzzle types from previous years, I'm always happy to see new things. Congrats James. I assume we both wasted a lot of time on the Hidden Words :roll: That said, I'm glad I also messed up...

Just as a heads-up, the link to the first contest is wrong, it should be https://ukpuzzles.org/contests.php?contestid=67 . It also says the event is finished? But the same instruction booklet contains the rules for both sets of puzzles, so you can find the correct instruction booklet from Liane's se...

Sounds good, cheers Adam. Now I just need to make sure I actually remember on that Monday
And happy birthday in advance to your daughter!

Will there be any allowance for those of us taking part in the 24hr championship next week? Tom and I are both, I believe, in Budapest from 27th-30th April, so we'll potentially miss a few day's worth of Duels. IIRC from last year, you allowed us to solve the puzzles up to a few days later, but I ha...

When the loop turns right out of the bottom of the 2 region in your image, it only travels 1 cell.

The Open and the online UKPC/UKSC are already on there though, no? Are there other events we have coming up that I don't know about?

It's often about making sure the shaded region can always 'escape' from any area. So here, for the shaded cells in the 6 region to escape, the shaded cells have to continue by going left and then up (they can't go left then left or you'd get 4 in a row). Hence, the cell directly left the of the numb...

R5C5 can't be black or it almost immediately fails (by connecting the black cells from top to bottom). It looks like it should fall out quite quickly after that.

Congrats to Tom Collyer for winning the Gold Medal in this event for the 3rd time, finishing the full set of puzzles with about 15 minutes to spare. Neil Zussman came 2nd on points (I was not close to finishing) for the Silver Medal. Completing a clean sweep from the UKPA, David Collison finished 3r...

kiwijam wrote: ↑Fri 08 Jul, 2022 1:45 am Congratulations Freddie, great result from you.

Seconded

kiwijam wrote: ↑Fri 08 Jul, 2022 1:45 am Big thanks to Liane for organising this contest.

Seconded

kiwijam wrote: ↑Fri 08 Jul, 2022 1:45 am (PS And I confirm acceptance of my spot in the Krakow A-team.)

Seconded

I forget to do this one (in my defence, I was busy all weekend, remember on Sunday evening but was too tired and resolved to do it on Monday, and then promptly completely forgot on Monday). Although I seem to remember reading in the rulebook that there was a kropki, so perhaps I subconsciously forgo...

Curve data: I usually find you just need to start playing around with the shapes, sticking them in places that seem to fit nicely together and seeing what happens. On this one, I started left to right and then realised 3 things: 1. My original solution for the LHS wasn't unique; I had the R above th...

Round 2 is taking place over this weekend.

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I omitted to put Senec in the Scrabble, which is pretty infuriating- I tend to make such errors pretty rarely, at least compared to some, so it's frustrating that it cost so many points on this occasion. I think I'd've beaten Freddie otherwise, not sure how that happened.

I agree that it was an enjoyable contest; nice to see some familiar names and faces again, and it was great to get the competitive juices flowing again! And actually, even though I didn't remember to take part in most of them, the Time Trials were a really good idea, particularly because they're the...

This year's event takes place between 13th August and 5th September, and is again almost entirely online (potentially 100% online, I haven't checked). https://mindsportsolympiad.com/mso-2021/ Dates for events that people who view the UKPA forum may be interested in: 13-16 Aug: Logic Puzzles (using t...