2026 UKPA Open Puzzle and Sudoku Tournament

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The UKPA are looking forward to hosting the on site Puzzle and Sudoku Tournaments at ARK King Solomon Academy, Penfold Street, London, NW1 6RX.
The Puzzle event will take place on Saturday 7th March and the Sudoku event will take place on Sunday 8th March.
Please be aware that the order of the events has been swapped from the previous order with now the Puzzle event before the Sudoku event.
For those who wish to take part in both events there are a number of options for hotels in the London area. There is a Premier Inn at Paddington Basin about 1/3 mile from the venue.

Both events will consist of 5 rounds of approximately 45 mins each, starting at 10 am, followed by a fun team round to allow the final round to be marked before the awards ceremony. Each day should be finished by 5 pm.

The cost for a single event is £45 or if you would like to take part in both then the total cost is £85.

Please drop me a line at liane@ukpuzzles.org if you would like to register to attend. Alternatively you can complete this short registration form: https://forms.gle/t5d5dRXC2mNcPrvr7

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If you haven't done so already, please don't forget to get your registrations in for the UKPA Open Tournaments.

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Everyone who has registered for the Tournament should have had an email from the Google group, and many a separate one from myself. If you haven't had any confirmation of registration (or let me know that you've paid) - please drop me a line at liane@ukpuzzles.org

If you haven't paid yet, please can you do so now.
If you're just entering one event then the cost is £45.
If you're entering both events then the cost is £85
Please make payments to:
Account name: UK Puzzle Association
Sort Code: 08-92-99
Account Number: 65663411
The international banking code is: GB58 CPBK 0892 9965 6634 11
BIC is CPBK GB22

Please use Open and your name as the reference on the payment and drop me a line at liane@ukpuzzles.org to let me know you've paid.

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The Instruction Booklets for the Puzzle event are now available in the competition thread. Aiming to get the Sudoku ones out on Sunday.

https://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?t=2825

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Congratulations to our prize winners from the Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournaments this last weekend in London.
A huge thanks to our wonderful setters from around the world, the puzzle testers and the volunteers to help with the marking without whom we wouldn’t be able to host such an event.

Once again it was a truly international event with our furthest participant travelling over 3000 miles from Canada.

The results of the Sudoku Event are:

1st Vincent Betrand
2nd Freddie Hand
3rd Calum Mailer

Most Improved: Eva Myers

Freddie Hand and Calum Mailer were the top UK competitors earning their place on the UK A team for the World Sudoku Championships this year.

The results of the Puzzle Event are:

1st Freddie Hand
2nd Valentin Miakinen
3rd Neil Zussman

Most Improved: Matthew White

Freddie and Neil have earned their place on the UK A team for the World Puzzle Championships this year.