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Three highlights of my involvement in puzzles over the past year have been the UK Puzzle Championship, DASH and the Croco-League. I've written in detail about DASH, an in-person team-competition sequential mostly-word-puzzles hunt held in London and in fourteen US cities. This year I didn't write about the UK Puzzle Championship, an online individual 2½-hour contest with, this year, 26 puzzles (mostly logic, some overtly words or maths) and a track record of an accessible difficulty level. There was certainly plenty to keep me entertained and I came pretty near the bottom.
I wrote a preview of the Croco-League last June, before the league started, and have mentioned it in passing from time to time ever since. The first season completed without unexpected hitches and exceeded my expectations about how much fun it might be in practice. The second season is due to start soon. Accordingly, if you had even tangential passing interest in reading about either of those two puzzle events, consider yourself warned about a puzzle event that can provide fun from September through to June, on and off.
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So who is this contest for? If you like logic puzzles and can get over the fact that the interface is solely in German, I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you like puzzles, have an established team and like solving puzzles with a particular group of your puzzling friends, I think you'd find it well worth the effort to learn these puzzles and this interface. I have a slightly old walkthrough of the interface - it's changed, but not all that much - and am happy to answer questions.
Possibly the biggest draw: if you like team sports at large and want to join a team for the purpose of playing a team sport and getting to know your teammates, but are happier with it being a thought sport than a physical sport, again it comes strongly recommended as well worth the effort. I've enjoyed getting to know the rest of my team better as a result and am really looking forward to the second season!
I wrote a preview of the Croco-League last June, before the league started, and have mentioned it in passing from time to time ever since. The first season completed without unexpected hitches and exceeded my expectations about how much fun it might be in practice. The second season is due to start soon. Accordingly, if you had even tangential passing interest in reading about either of those two puzzle events, consider yourself warned about a puzzle event that can provide fun from September through to June, on and off.
( Read more... )
So who is this contest for? If you like logic puzzles and can get over the fact that the interface is solely in German, I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you like puzzles, have an established team and like solving puzzles with a particular group of your puzzling friends, I think you'd find it well worth the effort to learn these puzzles and this interface. I have a slightly old walkthrough of the interface - it's changed, but not all that much - and am happy to answer questions.
Possibly the biggest draw: if you like team sports at large and want to join a team for the purpose of playing a team sport and getting to know your teammates, but are happier with it being a thought sport than a physical sport, again it comes strongly recommended as well worth the effort. I've enjoyed getting to know the rest of my team better as a result and am really looking forward to the second season!
