WPC 2010 - part 2 - WPC 2010 - page 1 of 1(back to group)

On Tuesday 26th, the puzzling began. Just after breakfast competitors had the 1st round, which was so called "WELCOME". Not so easy task for sleepy brains, as that round was build by 7 interconnected puzzles to be solved in 19 minutes. Very short time for this round ended with only 2 competitors finishing before the time, from whom only Andrey Bogdanov (Russia) made no mistake.

After short break there came round 2 - "Classics of WPC". Most of the puzzle types published there are well known, but the grids itselve had difficulty pushed to the limits. In this round Thomas Snyder (USA) have shown what he can by scoring 312pts, while the 2nd - Michael Ley (Germany) scored 272pts and 3rd - Hideaki Jo (Japan) - just 243pts.

Round number 3 was so called "Married". Authors of this round have put rules of few different puzzles into one diagram. It ended with "Sudokuro", "ABC of Battleships" or "Paint the Snake" compilations. This time there was no strong leader - Ulrich Voigt (Germany) won by having just 6 points more than the 2nd one - Hideaki Jo (Japan).

Round number 4 was a team round - "Anaconda". 19 small snake puzzles were put together with the aim to find a big one, going through all 19 grids - the Anaconda. No team have finished all grids, but the best team - USA - was really close finishing 17 of 19 grids. This result is really amazing, as only 2 teams (USA and Japan) have solved more than 13 puzzles!

Stay tuned - more info to come!

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WhyPuzzles Team

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Is it possible to dowlnload the puzzles from the WPC 2010 Pola