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Puzzle Day 2010: January 30-31, 2010

The Fourth Annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day -- actually two days of puzzle fun for all ages -- was a great success! Now in its fourth year, the event had expanded to be an entire weekend filled with crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and other word and logic puzzles. People from all over California and as far away as Arizona joined us for workshops for all levels of puzzle lovers on Saturday and competed in our tournaments, featuring puzzles provided by NY Times puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Sudoku world champion Thomas Snyder, on Sunday..

 

Here are the big prize winners from this year:

Adult Sudoku
Brian Kulman, Los Gatos, CA

Youth Sudoku
Tara McLaughlin, Morgan Hill, CA

Adult Killer Sudoku Bonus Round
Joshua Zucker, Menlo Park, CA

Youth Killer Sudoku Bonus Round
Tara McLaughlin, Morgan Hill, CA

Best Handwriting, Sudoku
Tina Walia, Saratoga, CA

Adult Crossword
Eric Maddy, Huntington Beach, CA

Youth Crossword and Word Puzzles
Mark Holmstrom, Morgan Hill, CA

Adult Cryptic Crossword Bonus Round
Eric Maddy, Huntington Beach, CA (after a tie-breaker round)

Best Handwriting, Crosswords
Dave Holmstrom, Morgan Hill, CA

Overall Morgan Hill Puzzler Award
Cameron Kim, Morgan Hill, CA

Award for person who traveled the furthest to attend
Edward Zachary, Phoenix, AZ

 

Here are the full results for Adult Sudoku, Killer Sudoku Bonus Round, and Adult Crossword, and Cryptic Crossword Bonus Round.

Youth results coming soon.

Thank you to everyone who attended or volunteered to make this event possible. We'll let you know when next year's date is set!

If you have photos from the event, we'd love to see them! Please email them to info@svpuzzle.org or tag them on flickr with the tag puzzleday2010

 

While you're waiting for next year's event.... check out the new Morgan Hill Math "Game Nights", a monthly gathering of people who enjoy games of skill.

 

 

Puzzle Day 2009

Thank you to everyone who made it such a fantastic event! There are photos up on Flickr and if you have others that you took, please tag them with "puzzleday09" so we can see them. Results are available here for the adult crossword tournament, adult and youth sudoku tournaments, and the killer sudoku and cryptic crossword bonus rounds.