UK Puzzle Association

I think that’s a good way of thinking! I wonder if that’s motivated by that weird German dice round.

That’s weird. That is where I was looking. Not sure what happened there!

I don't normally look at the overall scores for the year, but I think this makes really positive viewing for the UK (Puzzle GP overall standings 2026): #2 Freddie Hand #37 Peter Roder #44 Neil Zussman #52 James McGowan #65 Aleksei Daniliuk #68 Todd Davies #82 Maurice Blount #83 Adam Bissett #103 Cal...

The final Puzzle GP results for the year are out, and Ken edged Freddie by four minutes. Points were relatively obtainable as Naoki Sekiya made his best ever score in his 50th appearance and wasn't the only one in the top 10 to do so. The UK also saw three players make their best ever scores: Peter ...

This time with the promptly released Sudoku GP 8, Freddie took his 3rd top 10 finish. 莉緒 藤本 is a new name at the top of the leaderboard and seems suspiciously good, but Kota Morinishi's 100th Sudoku GP Is one to celebrate as he finishes 4th with his 82nd top 10 finish. In other UK news, Calum Mailer...

Freddie took a comprehensive victory in the delayed results of Puzzle GP 7 with a lot of Americans also liking this slightly different round, even dropping 2 puzzles. This was his third GP win, and only his seventh time over 1000 - it's not easy to do, despite the way he makes it look. Meanwhile, Pe...

Sudoku GP Round 7 sees two relative newcomers in the top 10, both of whom played one previous round. Chaerin Lee scored 496, and Savi Shienhmar scored 595 last time out. The other newer visitor to the top 10 is Zbigniew Zarzycki, with his first score over 900 during his second visit to the top 10, h...

Puzzle GP Round 6 results are out and there's UK galore in the top 100! 11 including James, and Jeremy just outside at #102. Nobody broke their records, though it wasn't especially a high scoring round in the end. I enjoyed the fact that I solved just 4 puzzles and still ended up competitive. It was...

Sudoku GP Round 6 results were out a little while ago. Freddie got his second top 10 sudoku finish with his third score over 800. Otherwise it was slim pickings for the UK. Adam Bissett got his 10th score of 400 or more while Mark Goodliffe got his 70th score of 300 or more (a strong hit rate from 7...

Puzzle GP Round 5 results are out. Freddie secured his 25th podium place of his puzzle career with his 5th score over 1000 points. Meanwhile, Aleksei took his best score ever with his 2nd score over 500. Zoe Ashford finished in her highest puzzle position of 125th, and her 3rd score over 300.

Loving the look of this Liane, thank you.

With Mintonette, is anybody willing to share any logic to help get started? I found it a painful example but I feel I might be missing something.

Freddie 98.5-60.4 Calum

No surprises here, as Freddie completed the hat-trick, of UK PR Cup, UK SM Cup and European combined cup.

Sudoku GP Round 5 results are out, and there were no great surprises near the top of the leaderboard, except Canada's Savita Shienhmar finishing 6th on their second performance, after scoring 342 their first time out. UK wise, Freddie and Calum continued their excellent season, and Calum bettered hi...

Chapeau, Calum. That’s really elegant. Took me a while to break that down even after you told me where to look. Really enjoyed that.

Not sure if this is the best place, but how do we get started on the example Search Nearest Nine? I got the 9 right in the centre, which I thought was very elegant, but I can’t get anything else.

Both players completed the set, but Freddie was 7 minutes faster. Well done Freddie!

Martin Merker (Germany) 114.52-121.15 Freddie Hand (UK)

The results are in. Congratulations Freddie!

Freddie Hand 121.15-16.8 Anthony Ford

Here are the results. The team did us proud. I can see that B teams were official for this contest, but besides that, the team have finished only behind Czechia and Türkiye, which feels like a great result to me.

https://sudoku2026.eu/en/vysledky/

Good luck team! Hope you have a great competition!

I've dug through the archives: I've reinterpreted this question as: what is the highest position in which the 6th highest UK solver has finished in a GP round? In 2017 when there were different divisions, the sixth placed UK solver in Division C for Round 1 was 39th! 5th: Heather Golding 11th: Charl...

So Puzzles Round 4 did not appeal to many, with very few competitors, and points were very hard to come by, but some great results for the UK, which I'm sure Tom will go into. While points were scarce, ten players did set personal bests, including Peter Roder's superb 587 and 11th place. The only lo...

I thought Valentin’s plan of marking them like sudo-kurve was a pretty good plan. I solved the tapa doing that.

Thank you! That’s perfect.

I haven’t tried the cube ones yet. I wanted to ask about the Masyu nets. Does that rule turn into something else, or am I going to have to look at a net and see what loops I can draw on it?

This round looks dangerously inaccessible to casual solvers.

Here's some honourable mentions for Round 4! Suzhe Qiu won his first Sudoku GP with his third score of over 1000 as China took the top 4 places. Points were not easy to come by and no Brits posted best ever scores (though Robert le Duc came mighty close, just 2 points off his best ever), and it was ...