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About:
This is a page which will play host to all sorts of sudoku (and other logic puzzle) miscellany. Every week, I publish a 100% original hand-written logic puzzle on my blog in a Friday Puzzles series - an archive of all my work so far can be found here.
Puzzles:
This is an all-but-impossible puzzle which satisfies Guinness world record criteria. The holder, a Belgian named Vincent Bertrand, solved it (after making a very lucky guess) in 3 minutes and 6 seconds. I decided to write a puzzle which met the same criteria, but is much easier. This has been solved in a significantly faster time than officially clocked - proving my point that trying to successfully standardise sudoku is an exercise in fiendish logical subtlety rivalling the aforementioned puzzle - and thus ultimately that any sort of sudoku record is meaningless.
I wrote an article which decribes how to solve a Times Super Fiendish sudoku puzzle. There is an accompanying YouTube video.
Championship reports, and press:
The following are personal reports on various sudoku championships I've participated in:
- UK Sudoku Championships (Cheltenham, 2006).
- World Sudoku Championships (Prague, Czech Republic, 2007).
- UK Sudoku Championships (London, 2007).
- World Sudoku Championships (Zilina, Slovakia, 2009) - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7.
- UK Sudoku Championships (London, 2009).
- World Sudoku Championships (Philadelphia, USA, 2010).
After winning the UK championship in 2009: Times article.
After winning the UK championship in 2007: Times article and supplement with the puzzles - BBC Hampshire article (including link to BBC Radio Solent interview).
Other (very brief!) mentions in The Times: WSC09 - WSC07 - UKSC08 - UKSC06.
In response to an academic paper (James Crook) claiming to have "solved sudoku": Times article - Daily Mail article which includes my quote. Andrew Stuart's response is also worth a read.
Finally, if final proof were needed of my all-encompassing media presence, my name is mentioned on Wikipedia.