15th 24-Hour Puzzle Championship

[puzzlemad]

Dates are announced - 17th - 19th April, 2015.
Full details are available on FB.
Competition from 10am Saturday till 10am Sunday.

[Gyorgy ISTVAN]

Dear friends,
we publish every info paralel to the WPF-site (for those who doesn't have FB-account)
http://forum.worldpuzzle.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=115

Hope to meet you in Budapest,
Gyorgy

[tamz29]

Luckily this coincides with my holidays and last year was great fun.
I'm seriously considering going again this year.

Anyone else going?

[detuned]

I am seriously considering it

I'm not sure I'd be able to contribute an entire set by myself, but I'd be interested in co-authoring if anyone else is up for it?

[detuned]

I know Liane is definitely going, and I think Neil is also seriously considering it too

[Nilz]

I've booked my tickets now, so I'm definitely in! I'm arriving late Thursday and therefore will have a lot of spare time on Friday, if anyone else is around? I'm tempted by the logical live-action game thing mentioned on the facebook page...

[tamz29]

If I do go, I'll definitely join a team at the Budapest's exit-game.

Speaking of which, I went to the Escape Hunt Experience (a different franchise from the one in Hungary) with 2 other friends yesterday.
We annihilated the existing record of 38 minutes with our time of 27 minutes!
The puzzles weren't easy but I've been to two of their rooms before and sort of got the feel of what to look for and what not to look (and waste time) at.

According to their site there's one branch in London too.
I also learnt that the one I went to (Bangkok) was the original branch.

[This list of branches is copied and pasted from their site]

Bangkok, Thailand (opened July 15th 2013),
Singapore (opened May 5th 2014),
Jakarta, Indonesia (opened May 15th 2014),
Phuket, Thailand (opened August 11th 2014),
Sydney, Australia (opened August 15th 2014),
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (opened September 7th 2014),
Perth, Australia (opened September 15th 2014),
London, United Kingdom (opened October 3rd 2014),
Amsterdam, Netherlands (opened October 19th 2014),
Groningen, Netherlands (opened October 31st 2014),
Pattaya, Thailand (opened October 14th 2014),
Melbourne, Australia (opened November 15th 2014,
Brisbane, Australia (opened November 25th 2014),
Cancun, Mexico (opened December 15th 2014)
Gold Coast, Australia (opened December 20th 2014),
Brussels, Belgium (opened December 22nd 2014),
Bali, Indonesia (opened January 10th 2015),
Manila, Philippines (opening January 2015),
Koh Samui, Thailand (opening January 2015).
Lisbon, Portugal (opening January 2015),
Paris, France (opening February 2015),
New York, USA (opening February 2015),
Adelaide, Australia (opening February 2015),
Barcelona, Spain (opening March 2015),
Surabaya, Indonesia (opening March 2015),
Dubai, UAE (opening May 2015).

[tamz29]

13 out of 14 IBs are out.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/acupwhonqbcqc ... 1.pdf?dl=0

If the link doesn't work, you might have to access it via the event's FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3932783 ... 503104975/

Lots of rules to digest.

See you in Budapest!

[puzzlemad]

As always a great competition with fantastic company. Thanks to everyone involved.
Just been looking at Tawan's minesweeper puzzle, that I'd "broken" in the competition, rubbed out and "broke" it again. Looking at it now I saw that I'd been given the points then realised that "30" was the points for the puzzle not the number of mines! - What else could I have solved with that wasted time - it wasn't even that late.

[margonn]

Definitely considering joining this competition. It's a good thing I have no work on Saturday. I'll see what I can do, maybe we'll have one of those spontaneous meetings with my IT chums, uh, priorities, priorities...

[Gyorgy ISTVAN]

Dear puzzle-friends,
thanks to the puzzle setters, all the puzzles available for practising.
Please note that all the copyrights are belong to the puzzle writers!
You can download the files including: the instruction booklet, the puzzle-booklets, the solutions and the detailed results (puzzles by puzzles!):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j51k67fn86s3 ... mWrna?dl=0
If you have any problem with downloading, please let us know, and we're happy to send them directly to you by mail.

Looking forward to welcome you again next year