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by PuzzleScot
Sun 29 Jun, 2025 10:12 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2025 UK Puzzle Championship has started...
Replies: 0
Views: 75295

2025 UK Puzzle Championship has started...

The contest consists of 2 rounds of 90 minutes that you can play at your convenience over this weekend.

https://ukpuzzles.org/contests.php

More information here: https://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?t=2775
by PuzzleScot
Sun 29 Jun, 2025 10:11 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2025 UK Puzzle Championship
Replies: 4
Views: 59568

Re: 2025 UK Puzzle Championship

This contest has now started.

Good luck all!
by PuzzleScot
Wed 11 Dec, 2024 10:38 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: STV news article re GCHQ Challenge
Replies: 0
Views: 78554

STV news article re GCHQ Challenge

Hi, and welcome to the UK Puzzle Association! I appeared on the STV program "Scotland Tonight" (Wed 11 Dec), discussing the 2024 GCHQ Christmas Puzzles , which were released today. I mentioned in the interview that the UKPA holds a couple of competitions throughout the year where you can e...
by PuzzleScot
Sun 13 Oct, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Good luck to the UK teams in Beijing
Replies: 0
Views: 78950

Good luck to the UK teams in Beijing

The British teams are now on their way to the 2024 World Championships in Beijing. Championships home Page The UK Puzzle Association wishes our World Sudoku Championship (17th WSC) and World Puzzle Championship (31st WPC) teams the very best of luck over the next week of competition! The WSC team: N...
by PuzzleScot
Mon 26 Feb, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament 2024
Replies: 13
Views: 82949

Re: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament 2024

Thanks so much to Liane for organising both tournaments and the venue yet again!

Lovely to meet everyone - old faces and new :)

Looking forward to finishing off the unsolved puzzles at leisure, and of course to doing it all again next year.
by PuzzleScot
Fri 20 Oct, 2023 12:36 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Good luck to the UK teams at the 2023 World Championships!
Replies: 1
Views: 62143

Re: Good luck to the UK teams at the 2023 World Championships!

Congratulations to Mark Goodliffe, who has won the Over 50s World Sudoku title!

Congratulations also to Calum Mailer for finishing in the top 3 of Newcomers in the same event.
by PuzzleScot
Mon 16 Oct, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Good luck to the UK teams at the 2023 World Championships!
Replies: 1
Views: 62143

Good luck to the UK teams at the 2023 World Championships!

This coming week, the 2023 World Sudoku Championship (WSC) and World Puzzle Championship (WPC) take place in Toronto, Canada. The final results, and hopefully regular intermediate results, will be published on the championships website at https://wspc2023.com The UK Puzzle Association wishes the bes...
by PuzzleScot
Sat 25 Mar, 2023 11:00 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament 2023
Replies: 20
Views: 162384

Re: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament 2023

mwhite wrote: Sat 25 Mar, 2023 10:25 pm Puzzle Round 1 Puzzle 10 (Skyscrapers) - the example is incorrect. I think the 4 and the 3 on the left hand side are both one row too high.
I agree.
by PuzzleScot
Thu 12 Jan, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 1
Views: 58846

Re: Newbie

Happy new year, and welcome!
by PuzzleScot
Mon 20 Jun, 2022 1:44 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello I am new here
Replies: 2
Views: 61890

Re: Hello I am new here

Welcome Amanda,

You'll certainly find plenty of different types of sudoku here!

Take a look through some of the past sudoku contests on the Puzzle Contests page.

Alan
by PuzzleScot
Tue 19 Oct, 2021 1:09 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Forum outage resolved.
Replies: 0
Views: 42591

Forum outage resolved.

The forum has been misbehaving for a few days now. I have upgraded the phpBB software on the 3rd attempt. It seems largely ok now, but I'm not convinced everything is perfect. What is fixed: - style sheets are showing the pages correctly - new topics, and replies to conversations are working - unrea...
by PuzzleScot
Wed 30 Sep, 2020 4:42 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Clickmazes relaunch
Replies: 5
Views: 80468

Re: Clickmazes relaunch

Hi Andrea! Pleased to see you back up and running.

For those that don't know, Andrea submitted some puzzles for our earlier UKPCs
by PuzzleScot
Mon 17 Aug, 2020 3:41 pm
Forum: Puzzle Links
Topic: Slitherlink variations
Replies: 0
Views: 62927

Slitherlink variations

The addictive kwontomloop (Fences/Slitherlink) site now has a variations daily puzzle too. https://kwontomloop.com/var/index.php

There are 5 or 6 styles. I'm enjoying this new daily challenge. I expect some of you might too.
by PuzzleScot
Sun 16 Aug, 2020 7:48 pm
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: [SOTR] Puzzle Lounge
Replies: 5
Views: 27665

Re: [SOTR] Puzzle Lounge

Thanks Tawan, I'll have a go!
by PuzzleScot
Fri 24 Jul, 2020 12:03 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: [SOTR] Puzzle Lounge
Replies: 5
Views: 27665

Re: [SOTR] Puzzle Lounge

Och. There were only 3 days left to submit when this was posted. Would love to have fully competed...

Tawan, please post earlier next time. Thanks - I love your puzzles
by PuzzleScot
Thu 23 Jul, 2020 11:51 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello :)
Replies: 2
Views: 68022

Re: Hello :)

Welcome jupilogy - hope you have fun!
by PuzzleScot
Wed 17 Jun, 2020 12:15 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Introduction
Replies: 1
Views: 54903

Re: Introduction

Welcome! Everyone starts somewhere. You can try any of our past contests, to get more experienced at online contests. In the puzzle links forum you will find links to all sorts of competitions, past and present. If you have any questions on how to solve anything, do post a request for help. (though ...
by PuzzleScot
Fri 12 Jun, 2020 11:59 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Hello
Replies: 1
Views: 17056

Re: Hello

Welcome! Good luck to you too.
by PuzzleScot
Fri 05 Jun, 2020 3:49 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: UK Puzzle & Sudoku National Championships 2020
Replies: 0
Views: 19230

UK Puzzle & Sudoku National Championships 2020

UK Sudoku Championship 2020 - This will be held online at our contest page , Fri 12th to Mon 15th June 2020. For more details, including the opportunity to ask questions, please refer to the competition thread here: http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2097 UK Puzzle Championship 2020...
by PuzzleScot
Mon 16 Mar, 2020 3:16 am
Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
Topic: Where should a beginner start with puzzles?
Replies: 15
Views: 99991

Re: Where should a beginner start with puzzles?

Have a look at the other subforums here...

In the meantime, I'd add the following recommendations:

http://puzzlepicnic.com/

https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Uebersicht.htm
by PuzzleScot
Mon 16 Mar, 2020 2:31 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournaments 2020
Replies: 16
Views: 53729

Re: UKPA Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournaments 2020

Glad to hear all went smoothly, and a good time was had by all. So sorry I couldn't be there this year.

Thanks Liane for organising this weekend's events. Well done.Very much appreciated by everyone!

Thank you also to all the puzzle compilers, the test solvers, and to all that competed!
by PuzzleScot
Sun 01 Mar, 2020 12:43 am
Forum: Puzzle Competitions
Topic: UKPA Hybrid Sudoku Contest
Replies: 17
Views: 55409

Re: UKPA Hybrid Sudoku Contest

Glum: your latest comment has been removed, and your account temporarily deactivated.

It is expressly forbidden to discuss anything regarding an ongoing contest.
by PuzzleScot
Mon 17 Jun, 2019 3:58 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: World Sudoku Championship 2019 - UK team announcement
Replies: 0
Views: 23574

World Sudoku Championship 2019 - UK team announcement

Following the conclusion of the online UK Sudoku Championship a week ago, and the UKPA Open Sudoku tournament earlier this year, the UK A-team for the upcoming WSC can now be announced: David McNeill Tom Collyer Sam Cappelman-Lynes Neil Zussman 1st reserve: Mark Goodliffe 2nd reserve: Heather Goldin...
by PuzzleScot
Mon 27 May, 2019 11:14 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: 2019 UK Sudoku & Puzzle Championships
Replies: 1
Views: 23535

2019 UK Sudoku & Puzzle Championships

The 2019 UK Sudoku Championship will take place over the weekend of 8th-9th June 2019 (15:00 7th June to 23:59 10th June) The 2019 UK Puzzle Championship will be held 2 weeks later, over the weekend of 22nd-23rd June 2018 (15:00 21st June to 23:59 24th June) The championships will take place online...