This is part 2 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2023 24 Hour Puzzle Championship which happened on 28-30th April 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The first part was a personal account of events leading up to, during and after the competition. This part will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round. Note that this report was written last year, so the many instances of “this year” means 2023. You can click on each image for the enlarged version.
One of this blog’s numerous tags is On Site where I recap events I attended. Since the pandemic, I’ve been swamped by life and haven’t been stringent enough to keep up. I type up a lot of my impressions after each event, but I’ve never gotten around to polishing it up and posting them.
A lot of the upcoming posts will clearly be outdated. Heck, the Kirchheim WPC happened 5 years ago. Remember the world before COVID? I’ve went back and re-read these unpublished recaps and added inserts to remind readers that these words were written long ago.
Since the 2024 edition of the 24-Hour Puzzle Championship is happening this weekend, I’ll start this trip down memory lane by recapping the 2023 event across 2 posts. That’s a lot of words. Get cosy.
Enjoy!
This is part 1 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2023 24 Hour Puzzle Championship which happened on 28-30th April 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. This first part will be a personal account of events leading up to, during and after the competition. Part 2 will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round. Note that this report was written last year, so the many instances of “this year” means 2023.
Namaste readers,
Held in Pune last month was the Indian Sudoku and Puzzle Championships. For the past 4 editions I’ve contributed Sudokus and often-questionable non-WPC puzzles (which end up in the aptly named “Hangover” round). The opportunity to organize ISPC came to me at the end of June, after no one apparently wanted to take the role.
On 20th August, I attended the Thailand Sudoku Championship, and it was a train wreck of an event. Continue reading
This is a post about my experience in the 6×6 Duel tournament, which took place on 6th June 2021, held online at Puzzle Duel. All puzzles are courtesy of Puzzle Duel.
Hello readers, I’m in the middle of a relocation and that means having to do some file-keeping across computers. So far, I’ve lost two weeks’ worth of Puzzle Lounge content (cries) but some write-ups were salvageable. This is a post about my personal experience at the 2019 BRANDS Tournament which happened on 5-7th July 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was written near the end of 2019, and I have edited parts of it, so it makes sense now that it has been 2 years since. Photos courtesy of Thailand Crossword Association, Thananon Boonkrong and myself.
This is part 2 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2019 24 Hour Puzzle Championship which happened on 5-7th April 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. This part will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round. It is long.
With this year’s 24HPC up in the air due to the coronavirus outbreak, this one-year late report of the last edition seems like a good occasion to relive the experience. This is part 1 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2019 24 Hour Puzzle Championship which happened on 5-7th April 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. This first part will be a personal account of events leading up to, during and after the competition. Part 2 will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round.
This is part 2 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2019 Asia Sudoku Championship which happened on 25-28th January 2019 in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines. This part will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round.
Booklets of the 2019 ASC
Reliving the event by going through the booklets, I feel more positive about the puzzles at the ASC. The grids were very clean and themes for some individual puzzles were stunning. For a competition, I personally enjoy medium to medium-plus difficulty and the hardest grids here I felt were right in that range. There was only one minor mistake in round 4 that may have tripped people up but questionably nothing was done about it.
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Yes. This recap is 8 months late. This is part 1 of 2 posts about my experience at the 2019 Asia Sudoku Championship which happened on 25-28th January 2019 in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines. This first part will be a personal account of events leading up to, during and after the competition. Part 2 will be a breakdown of my thoughts on each round.
The Asia Sudoku Championship is a relatively young event on the WPF circuit with this year’s event being only the 3rd iteration. The previous 2 editions were both held in South Korea with the 1st of its kind seeing only 3 nations (China, Korea and Japan) compete. The 2nd ASC, held in 2018, expanded to 8 countries with over 50 entrants in the Open section. Held alongside were several well-attended age groups for younger solvers (age categories include U-8, U-10, U-12 and U-15).
Somewhere Over the Rainbow 