#team round

[dvdjns]

Rounds 13 and 14

We did the team rounds for Day 2 to end the competition. For the first one, we had to solve silently with only a shared piece a paper to share among us for linked cells. There were 6 of them for each of us to do. My teammates hopefully got 2 each but I got at least 3 and possibly 4 of them.

The last round was one with 4 layered jigsaw sudokus (3 layers total). We hopefully solved 2 sets as they were quite difficult for me to visualize.

There are activities at night. Last night had a pop/rock music quiz but I got eliminated in a round of 27 (I was lost with most of the Euro music).

[dvdjns]

Round 22 (Team Round 5)

This was an optimizing origami puzzle round. We decided to do 3 of them that added to 1540 points. There was no time bonus but we stopped solving with 10 minutes left.

And that’s the end of the 2023 WPC!

There’s a gala dinner to end things and karaoke afterwards.

[dvdjns]

Round 21 (Team Round 4)

This was a trick or treat round with masks and 9 puzzles that had tricks which altered them into new puzzles. We likely solved 17 of the 18 of them and needed about 5 more minutes to solve the last one.

[dvdjns]

Round 17 (Team Round 3)

This was 16 pieces that formed 4 fuzuli puzzles (Latin squares with no 2x2 digits filled in). We got the puzzle pieces together for me to solve the fuzulis. We finished with just over 14 minutes remaining (out of 30 minutes)!

Time for lunch!

[dvdjns]

Round 8 (Start of Day 3, Team Round 1)

We were divided into 2 pairs and given instruction-less puzzles. I got a Latin square to solve and my partner I completed fairly quickly giving us a lot of time on the final puzzle which was a combination of each of our individual rules. We solved it with plenty of time remaining (12 minutes)

[dvdjns]

Round 15 (Team Round 5)

This round was a disaster! No one finished on time which paused the clock. I didn’t get one of my assigned individual sudokus as the instructions weren’t very good. It seems like a lot of others failed to solve it though. We managed the team samurai using the logic from the earlier sudokus. It was a frustrating end to the team part of the competition.

[dvdjns]

Round 14 (Team Round 4)

This was a sticker sudoku set and our team passed around 6 sudokus and had 90 seconds to solve our portion with stickers. We solved 5 of them but not a difficult irregular sudoku that required everyone to do their part. We are probably out of the running for a podium finish.

[dvdjns]

Round 13 (Team Round 3)

We did well to work through connected sudokus (17 in total). I don’t remember how much time we were given but we finished with 13 minutes left and felt fairly confident that we got them all.

And as an aside, we got interviewed by a journalist afterwards, although I’m not sure who she’s associated with.