UK Puzzle Association

Here are the puzzle rounds. We are not able to share the puzzle team round.

In this time of unprecedented worldwide uncertainty, the puzzle authors have kindly agreed to share their puzzles from the recent UKPA Open Tournament, which was probably the last face to face puzzling event anywhere round the world for the foreseaable future. We are unable to share the first round ...

I haven't seen the puzzles but would guess on the formatting that they have been created by different people, possibly with different methods of drawing the grids up.

.... and of course we can't forget Anthea for working miracles with the scoring programme.

Thanks David, we certainly missed you.
Results of the Puzzle tournament are: 1st Neil Zussman with 2372 points, 2nd Vincent Bertrand with 1593 and 3rd Tom Collyer with 1560.

Thanks Sam, I'll pass your best wishes on to everyone taking part. They've just started round 2. The overall winner of the Sudoku Tournament was Vincent Bertrand with 1282 points, with Tom Collyer running a close 2nd with 1258 points. Mark Goodliffe was in third place with 1060. The most improved we...

pinkagape wrote: ↑

Sun 08 Mar, 2020 3:27 pm

Hi

In the kropki kakuro in Puzzles Round 4, it doesn’t state that all such kropki circles are present, but that rule does apply in the example. Are all such circles present?

Yes all such circles are given.

Amended Sudoku round 4 uploaded.

We spotted a mistake in it and am in the process of amending it. As Feadoor says the examples are the puzzles that were the online competition. I'll get the amended version uploaded as soon as possible.

The instruction booklets for the events are now available. If anyone has any queries, please post those on this thread clearly identifying the event, round and puzzle and we will endeavour to respond as soon as possible. Many thanks go to all the authors and test solvers without whom we wouldn't be ...

david mcneill wrote: ↑

Wed 04 Mar, 2020 2:13 pm

And Kota was on a different planet - 38:32 is unreal.

You can certainly say that again. Well done Kota - it probably took me that long to answer a single puzzle!

Very well done to everyone who completed all the puzzles in the allotted time.

I just created an account and downloaded the instruction booklet. I solved 3 out of the 4 example puzzles, I couldn't even break into the Killer and Clone, and each puzzle took me at least 30 minutes. I just want to check, it's not worth me even trying the actual contest is it? :( Sometimes competi...

(I haven't checked flight prices because Tom's scared me too much). But I'm definitely planning to do something puzzle-y on the Friday if people are around. :-) I had a look at prices on Tuesday, but wanted to confirm about flight return time. Just looked today and prices on all airlines have incre...

There are still spaces available at these events if anyone would like to take part. We've got some great puzzles for them that I've thoroughly enjoyed solving. For further information please contact liane@ukpuzzles.org

I'm intending coming too - but haven't checked my flight times yet (or work availability!)

Hi All,
I've been made aware that the hotel has had its name changed slightly to the DeVere Selsdon Estate.

There are still spaces available, please let me know if you would like a place.

E.g. is the schedule roughly the same as in previous years - e.g. Sudoku competition is entirely on the Saturday, and the Puzzle competition is split between the last bit of Saturday and then Sunday? This is already stated above - but yes Sudoku entirely on Saturday and Puzzle split as you state. A...

The UK Puzzle Association are pleased to announce the 2020 UK Open Sudoku and UK Open Puzzle Tournaments. The Sudoku Tournament will be held on Saturday 14th March, 2020 and the Puzzle Tournament will be held from the evening of Saturday 14th and on Sunday 15th March, 2020. The event will be returni...

I'm back home from my first trip to Germany this year so look forward to trying these.

I just wanted to add my voice to those expressing their thanks for organising & hosting this event. This was my first time participating in anything like this & I had a great time. All the puzzles were a joy to solve & it's been having a lot of fun working my way through the remaining puzzles in my...

Hi Bram, you're welcome - it looks like a couple of you did that but there were a range of errors on that puzzle including not 'seeing' the 'regular' rectangles properly for some reason. I'm glad you enjoyed the puzzles - thanks again to the authors of them all.

Hi Bram, The solution file has now been uploaded. I've just been having a look at the answer submissions on puzzle #18. There were a variety of different submissions, several of which appeared to have the ‘standard’ rectangle above the 0 wrong, some didn’t record any of the 'standard' rectangles at ...

Congratulations to James McGowan, who has claimed the UK Puzzle Championship title. James completed 26 of the 31 puzzles amassing 650 of the 720 points available. David McNeill (winner of the UKSC) came 2nd with 611 points. As a result, both James and David have earned their places on the UK team fo...

Just to confirm that now the problems with the website have been fixed the competition has been extended to the end of Thursday 27th June, 2019. Thank you for your patience during this time.

Just to confirm that we are extending the competition window for the UKPC due to the ongoing disruption being caused to the site. Further information will be provided when we know more. Apologies to everyone.