UK Puzzle Association

If you want people to help you'll need to explain the rules, since this clearly isn't just a regular thermometer sudoku.

I tried googling your link but it didn't bring up the video with the rules, and 'Thermo miracle' brought up a different cracking the cryptic puzzle.

@Gareth: Not necessarily. IMHO if a cell remains empty, it is not reachable at all. Or can you post a contra-example (which has only one solution)? The following puzzle has only one solution, and yet the square marked 'x' is reachable but not visited in the solution. It also has a second square not...

It's a good question. Until recently it had never occurred to me that people would solve on screen during a competition, because to me it seems self-evident that this gives a potentially big advantage for certain puzzle types. Even though on-screen solving may be a disadvantage in some cases, e.g. i...

The two main things that I will look for is cells which can only join to one given number, and numbers which only have so many possible cells that they can join. It should probably be noted that the first rule only applies if the sum of the numbers is equal to the number of empty squares, which is ...

petpar55@gmail.com wrote: ↑

Mon 15 Jun, 2020 8:42 pm

I can not found password to open puyyles!!!

Go to the contest page linked at the very top of the thread above, then click 'Open Page' to the right of 'Answer Submission Page'. Then click 'START NOW' to get the password. Your timer will begin at that point.

As a small assistance to help people get through these strange times, I'm adding two extra free puzzles to puzzlemix.com every day for the foreseeable future. The puzzles are a mix of mostly sudoku variants, plus kakuro, nurikabe, slitherlink, hitori, skyscraper, futoshiki, calcudoku and hanjie.

That's a good point - and it's often particularly true for unusual puzzles. Instead of reusing an existing example, the author often won't have time to make the example work really cleanly. Not that I have even looked at the examples for this competition however - so I can't say if that applies here...

I see what you mean - that extra "the" completely changed the meaning!

Just a reminder not to discuss puzzles from still-open puzzle competitions, even if just to say which you enjoyed - sorry for deleting your post, Freddie. Do post again once the competition closes.

I never get Humble Bundle email about puzzle stuff either - only games I am not interested in. Seems they don't bother emailing out about that sort of thing.

Not that this helps with your query!

The competition is still open - the deadline was extended again from Wednesday to Thursday (i.e. one day more) due to problems with the web server hosting company.

To clarify, you have not (yet) missed it. You can take part until Thursday the 27th of June, so long as you start prior to 9:25pm BST.

Due to a last-minute update, if you have already downloaded the UK Puzzle Championship competition booklet in advance of competing then please re-download it before starting the tournament.

Pretty sure he was 2nd. And congratulations indeed.

Also, https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... zle-people

This puzzle has the problem that it is not language neutral, and for that reason is not suitable for a WSC.

I'm looking to hire a full-time (or part-time) puzzle author to work at my company, Any Puzzle Media Ltd. The role is based in London, and would require you to be on-site in our office. The puzzles encompass all types, although the majority are word-based rather than WPC-style puzzles. We wrote over...

If you haven't yet booked your place, do please email Liane using the details in the message at the top of this thread. We don't expect to run out of places in the tournament room, but the hotel itself may become fully booked.

Live streaming of the playoffs is at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G39E0S7qYhE

Results are being posted at http://wscwpc2018.cz/results/

Looks like the link for this is going to be: http://logicmastersindia.com/2018/10S/

1) There is a timer on the page, but don't rely on it because (unless it has been fixed) it is only approximate - use your own stopwatch.

2) It is against the rules to use a calculator for any puzzle, including Killer Sudoku.

Good luck!

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! Yes - that's a good point, and a problem with adding unnecess...

In round 5, Akari Blocks, what is the definition of a 'block'? Is it any contiguous set of black squares? In round 5, Place by Product and Place by Product Repeat, I presume that "the lengths of" is intended to be inserted, to give "Numbers outside the grid give the product of the lengths of the non...

Just to clarify, you did ONLY two rounds in the A competition, but qualified for the A league anyway? I didn't think that was how it was meant to work - if you confirm I will query it at a WPF board meeting. Are you saying you would have won division B otherwise? Also, who specifically did you query...

There should probably be a way of getting to the main site? I think previously the logo did that, but I wouldn't suggest restoring that. How about linking from the text at the top of the page, under 'UK Puzzle Association'?

Anyone have any idea is there is going to ever be an "Official" section B or C result - i.e. discounting the A and the A or B contestants? I believe that rankings tables which exclude those not officially completing in a division should be on the GP site soon. In terms of 'official' winners, there ...