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@ 2013-06-15 8:20 AM (#11223 - in reply to #9420) (#11223) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2013-06-15 8:20 AM
Link to original post : US Puzzle Championship 2013 instructions run-down
Before I say anything else about the post title, I should give a few words on my absence. In short, the outcome of the Mystery Hunt I contributed to left me very drained on puzzles for months, and I think the first time I’ve constructed anything since then was May. I think I’m finally back […]Posted in USPC 2013
@ 2013-06-15 9:21 PM (#11225 - in reply to #9420) (#11225) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2013-06-15 9:21 PM
Link to original post : USPC 2013 Previews
Here’s instances of 13 (Looper) and 14 (Tight-Fit TomTom). I suspect the Looper here is easier than 20 points, and the TomTom is probably about the right level. I confess I didn’t check these extremely thoroughly since I’m moving on to working on other types. I made two attempts to construct Bombardoku, and both broke […]Posted in USPC 2013
@ 2013-06-16 9:22 PM (#11236 - in reply to #9420) (#11236) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2013-06-16 9:22 PM
Link to original post : USPC 2013 Recap
I believe this is safe to post since the 12 hour window was over long ago, although solutions have yet to go up. Taking the test this year was interesting since my printer’s color ink has gone haywire and I went entirely without grays or reds this year. On some puzzles that meant I had […]Posted in USPC 2013
@ 2014-08-12 11:03 PM (#16325 - in reply to #9420) (#16325) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-12 11:03 PM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Pregame
I’ve been in London a couple days now. The 2014 World Sudoku Championship just finished. The top 10 after the preliminary rounds that made the playoffs, from #1 to #10, were: Tiit Vunk (Estonia), Kota Morinshi (Japan), Bastien Vial-Jaime (France), Jakub Ondrousek (Czech Republic), Seungjae Kwak (Korea), Dai Tantan (China), Hideaki Jo (Japan again), Michael […]Posted in WPC 2014
@ 2014-08-14 7:05 PM (#16334 - in reply to #9420) (#16334) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-14 7:05 PM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Day 1 Morning
The day 1 morning is now over. It looks like the organizers are making rounds finishable this year, in that I got all three of them done and several others did too. Which is good, because we’ve been asking for more of that. Also a little bad for me, because I’m mistake-prone and I’m very nervous about losing […]Posted in Uncategorized
@ 2014-08-15 12:35 AM (#16337 - in reply to #9420) (#16337) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-15 12:35 AM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Day 1 Afternoon
Before we get to a scoreboard, let’s start with a fun quiz. The rules of the (partial) puzzle shown above are that you have to have an equal distance between each flag and that you have to use all squares without trees. One can compute by counting that the distance for this puzzle is 11. Assuming that […]Posted in Uncategorized
@ 2014-08-15 7:06 PM (#16344 - in reply to #9420) (#16344) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-15 7:06 PM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Day 2 Morning
I might not get to all the rounds in this post; the afternoon rounds start very shortly and I wouldn’t want to be late. But I’ll at least get a scoreboard up. (Rank. Name; Country; Total; R3; R4; R5) 1. Ulrich Voigt; Germany; 4850; 1935; 800; 690 2. Hideaki Jo; Japan; 4510; 750; 400 3. […]Posted in WPC 2014
@ 2014-08-16 5:06 PM (#16350 - in reply to #9420) (#16350) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-16 5:06 PM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Day 2 Afternoon
I got to posting this a bit late, so a lot of stuff has happened and this will be a marathon post. I realize that the final scores are not up on the WPC website yet, but I’d have a lot of rounds to put on the scoreboard and there are protests happening. So I’ll […]Posted in WPC 2014
@ 2014-08-16 5:19 PM (#17616 - in reply to #9420) (#17616) TopMelon's Puzzles
Melon's Puzzles posted @ 2014-08-16 5:19 PM
Link to original post : WPC 2014: Playoffs and Conclusion
I’ll save my final rank for later in the post. I am starting to see a pattern where apparently Ulrich and I make these very fun to watch (obviously not intentionally), though this time we had help. I can’t do my usual detailed per-puzzle rundowns because most of what I had to say for each […]Posted in WPC 2014