UK Puzzle Association

Trying to wrap this up soon, so similarly for the WPC team: can we please get initial indications from Maurice Blount, Maurice is joining us for the full week, but not taking part in the WSC. Rereading my email, I realise I might have been unclear, but I'm only planning to attend the WPC half of th...

For the example, at least, I found the following ideas helpful: - Separating out leaves (ie dead ends) - there are two of these in each of R1 and R6, and each pair must have one going to the 2 seed and one going to the 5 seed so as not to break the "no two leaves sharing a seed can be in the sa...

I couldn't see how to get a single foothold in the Skyscraper. For me, the starting point was row 3 and column 4 - R3C4 must be strictly greater than all other numbers in R3. This means that large shapes in rows 4-6 are "boxed in" by row 3. It also means that R3C4 can't be 1, nor can it g...

Thanks both - having tried it out on the GP last weekend I agree that it didn't seem to offer much/any advantage. It mostly came in handy for shading in at the end of the Statue Park, where I'd guessed and wanted to ensure I'd not inadvertently closed off any unshaded regions - but I could equally h...

When doing puzzle competitions, I often end up guessing, and the notation can get very messy if I need to use several "levels" of guessing and want to track the implications of those guesses. (For example, when doing yajilin I either shade or dot cells, then if I need to guess I use X or O...

Me too - though I'll probably be able to make other evenings if its organised for later in the week instead.

I might be missing something more obvious, but after (a lot of) head scratching I've realised the 9-cell cage must have ACEGI in the corner and centre cells and BDFH in the edge cells. I'm not sure what the etiquette is for spoilers here, so to be safe I've rot13 'd the detail of my solving method b...

I don't have much experience with the sudoku gp (or sudoku in general), but for what it's worth I notice "pairs" come up in the classic puzzles relatively often and have started keeping more of an eye out for them. For me, the "variant vs classic" comes down to two things - the f...

Could I join tonight's meeting? I'd definitely be interested in talking through some of the Puzzle GP puzzles

Maurice