UK Puzzle Association

Anyone entered this? I plan doing so this evening, though may run out of time.

(I've been rather busy the last couple of nights designing the associations new website.
Members, please read the discussion in the members area. I need as much feedback/contributions as possible...)

Agreed! The OAPC tournaments were invaluable practice last year, so I'd say it would be a very wise idea indeed to keep up with the Polish puzzle styles!

Try again. WPC2006 (Borovets). Part 2 Puzzle 2: 1 5 5 2 3 3 3 4 5 4 1 3 3 5 5 2 3 2 3 6 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 2 1 4 1 4 4 2 3 2 I can't see an obvious start in. Clearly the 1s at A1 and A6 are limiting, as is the 5 (/6) on the diagonal at C4. Since there are a couple of 2s on that line, it seems the most re...

It's a while since I did these - the post was only really meant as a kick-off point. Anyway... From Part 2, Group 3 of WPC2007 (Brazil). Largest of 3 grids: 3 5 2 3 4 6 1 1 2 1 1 3 4 3 3 4 2 6 1 3 0 0 3 3 4 2 2 2 2 7 2 2 1 2 2 3 Assume grid numbering like a chessboard - F6 = TR corner. Diagonals hav...

Arrow puzzles have been seen commonly in the dutch puzzle magazine 'Breinbrekers', and occasionally in the past at the WPC. There is a square grid of numbers, with space for an arrow at the end of each row/column that points into the grid. You must place arrows in every empty space such that the num...

The annual USPC will be held on Saturday 21st August 2010 at 18:00 - 20:30 BST. (1pm EDT [GMT-4] )

http://wpc.puzzles.com/rules/index.htm

Please make sure you register early, and take time to read the rules and instruction.
Oh, and practice!

Hi, I'm the webmaster for the ukpuzzles.org website, and administrator of this forum. I have been in the UK WPC team 3 times - 2003, 2004 & 2009 (as playing captain). Mike Colloby (Secretary) and myself (Chairman) are the founders, and current directors, of the UK Puzzle Association. I live in Edinb...

Erich's Puzzle Palace

Erich Friedman is a mathematician who has contributed many puzzles to USPC and WPC competitions, so it is a good idea to be familiar with his puzzle designs. Many of his online puzzles include a flash solver (click the link that says 'flash' by each puzzle type).

Puzzle Picnic contains an ever growing library of graded puzzles.
All are solvable on-line through your browser.

Instructions available in Dutch or English.

This link should be in every puzzler's bookmarks - Angela und Otto Janko There you will find a large collection of puzzles solvable online using their applets. eg, for Masyu, there are presently 260 graded puzzles to solve. They have also kindly offered a link to Google Translate to help with unders...