Puzzles
Crossword Puzzles
Puzzles for the adult Crossword Puzzle tournament will be provided by NY Times Puzzle Master Will Shortz.
- NY Times Crossword Puzzles
- Rex Parker Does the NYT Puzzle - a fantastic blog which analyzes each day's NY Times Crossword Puzzle. A great way to learn and prepare for the competition. Be sure to check out The Pantheon, a list of words used over and over (and over) again in NY Times Crossword Puzzles.
- Puzzle Pointers - Links to lots of daily puzzles
- Crossword Books at the Morgan Hill Library
- American Crossword Puzzle Tournament - March 18-20, 2011 Brooklyn Bridge Marriott, Brooklyn, NY
- Bay Area Crossword Tournament - September in Alameda, CA
- Crosswords LA Tournament - May 1, 2011, Loyola Marymount University
- Lots of links from the ACPT site
- That Puzzle Guy's Blog
- Diary of a Crossword Fiend
- LA Crossword Confidential
Sudoku
Sudoku puzzles for the Puzzle Day tournament will be hand-crafted by US and World Sudoku Champion Thomas Synder.
- Other puzzles written by Thomas Snyder
- Series of videos of Thomas Snyder solving puzzles and giving tips, from the Stanford School of Medicine
- Trizm Puzzles, A Trizm Puzzle™ is a number-placing logic puzzle, but it’s played on a board of triangles and vivid colors instead of a grid of black and white boxes. Like Sudoku, the rules are simple and easy to learn—but without the familiar rows and columns, it’s always fresh and challenging. Think outside the box!
Cryptic Crosswords
Like last year, a special bonus Cryptic Crosswords tournament has been added to the schedule.
Haven't tried these puzzles yet? Don't worry, there will also be a workshop on Saturday to get you all up to speed before the competition.
Killer Sudoku
Like the past two years, this year a special bonus Killer Sudoku tournament has been added to the schedule.
According to Wikipedia, killer sudoku "is a puzzle that combines elements of sudoku and kakuro. Despite the name, the simpler killer sudokus can be easier to solve than regular sudokus, depending on the solver's skill at mental arithmetic; the hardest ones, however, can take hours to crack."
Killer Sudoku follows the same sudoku rules except you are given clues in the form of totals for a group of boxes which will give clues from which you can deduce the numbers.
Haven't tried these puzzles yet? Don't worry, there will also be a workshop on Saturday to get you all up to speed before the competition.
Killer Sudoku Links
- Step-by-step Killer Sudoku Presentation by Brian Conrey
- Killer Solving Guide from sudocue.net
- Killer Sudoku Online
More information and links coming. If you want to suggest some, please send them to us.
