UK Puzzle Association

I'm interested in the WPC this year!

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The Kakuro instructions don't say the numbers have to be different in each sum, but presumably they do, as usual.

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Please could the solutions booklet to the 2017 puzzle competition be published?

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Angus

I'm sure 99% of the time everyone knows what is meant, but an ambiguity that matters will slip through very occasionally.

detuned wrote: ↑Tue 27 Feb, 2018 10:29 am the concept of the snake touching itself is more intuitive than talking about shared edges/corners.

You say that, but when the snake turns a corner, the two cells either side of the corner are touching diagonally, but it's still allowed!

Sorry for the questions, but I am relatively new here... 3: Rassi Silai - presumably you don't have to draw in the lines separating the rope cells within the same regions as in the given solution? 15: Place by Product - is the little dash in the starting grid extraneous or does it mean a cell that s...

Fast and helpful, many thanks!

Latin pointers is also simpler in the example, by the way, and I've noticed that round one says '3th to 4th March'!

Hi Liane Thank you. A couple of questions, although I think I know the answers! In the 'LITS' puzzle in Puzzle comp round 1, does 'regardless of' really mean 'including''? it is ambiguous whether different rotations/reflections of the same tetromino can or cannot touch (although I'm pretty sure they...

Had a great time in Bangalore, although did fairly badly as a puzzle novice (and my daughter beat me). Congratulations to James, Neil, David and Adam for doing so well! The UK team were also very welcoming to us two upstarts. I am now seeing shaded boxes and lines wherever I look, I may become addic...

Interesting fact about 8b is that while the tiebreaker was running (26 March - 2 April) the fourth entry changed, but it didn't affect the solution...

But can you do 12b? That was hard!

Q6 hint - the first word for 6a is DOLLAR
Q7 hint - the first phrase for 7b is Elephant & Castle
Q11 hint - 11b,e,f word lengths are the same as ONE, TWO, THREE...

Hello magoo Sorry not to answer earlier, only just saw your message. My final wordbox was 9x5: KZEBDEAGT ALTMALTEH PPAMGIOMI IHAUPSHRC XCTNEILON I did do a bit of programming to help to solve this although it was a mixture of trial and error and finding partial solutions by computer. E.g. UPSILON an...

OK, thanks, will do. Good guess, I was born and grew up in Edinburgh, although I'm in London now.

Hello, I have just joined this forum so thought I should introduce myself. I do mainly like word puzzles such as crosswords, but I'm not averse to language-neutral puzzles as well. Reasonably proficient at Sudoku and Killer but I do get stuck on the very hard ones probably because I try not to write...