Top 10 competitors of this contest are:
| 1 | Thomas Snyder | 688 |
| 2 | Rick Uppelschoten | 670 |
| 3 | Andrey Bogdanov | 656 |
| 4 | Vlad Klyachin | 655 |
| 5 | Umit Abacioglu | 636 |
| 6 | Yuhei Kusui | 584 |
| 7 | Yuka Sugimura | 550 |
| 8 | Hideaki Jo | 546 |
| 9 | Alan Fetters | 483 |
| 10 | Taro Arimatsu | 464 |
Full table of results is here.
Instructions for the puzzles of the contest are posted. You can ask questions here.
December, 1st! Forsmarts 5th anniversary online-contest!
Contestants register here.
| 1-2 | Christian Romon | 19 |
| 1-2 | Yevhen Shatsyllo | 19 |
| 3-4 | Yuhei Kusui | 17 |
| 3-4 | Alexander Ershov | 17 |
| 5-6 | Allar Padari | 15 |
| 5-6 | Yuka Sugimura | 15 |
| 7-9 | Hideaki Jo | 13 |
| 7-9 | Urmas Raude | 13 |
| 7-9 | Zafer Huseyin Ergan | 13 |
| 10 | Javier Cucalon | 11 |
The scoring is based on the number of solved puzzles.
Finally I launched the forum where everyone can discuss questions related to puzzles (and not only). One of the aims of this forum is to reborn Puzzle Book in its new format - all puzzlemakers are invited to take part in its creation. Also there are topics about world championships, online contests, solving and creation of puzzles. Join us!
Results of online version of this championship are here.
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5th issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book" is ready. It includes two new puzzle types: "Driving path" and
"Triple marking". Results of the first season of "FPB-contest" will be counted after the current deadline,
in the middle of April. |
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It's a pity I have no time to make a new issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book", so the next issue will be released in March. I'll try to add some extra-pages to this issue. It'll be the last issue of the first season of the "FPB-contest". |
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Now you can download the fourth issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book". There are two new types of the puzzles in this
issue: "Magic summer" and "Manifold painting". Also there is special New Year Sudoku! |
I want to thank all visitors of my site and all participants of my contest for loving puzzles and being with my project this year. I want to wish you a happy New Year and best luck and health in it. See you in the next year!
Results were updated.
Preliminary results are here. After three days of appealing they'll become official. Solutions booket is available for downloading.
The instruction booket for upcoming online-contest is available for downloading. Post your questions on Diogen forum. Note that puzzle booket won't contain any information except actual puzzle grids.
On the 2nd of December I will hold the online-contest dedicated to the 4th anniversary of my project. It will consist mostly of the puzzles that appeared in issues during the last year. Registration is already started.
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The third issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book" is ready! Two new puzzles! Three contest puzzles!
The last issue of this year... More information - later. |
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The second issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book" is waiting to be downloaded! Including three contest puzzles! |
Finally, the answers to the last issue of the eighth season are added.
Second issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book" will be out on the 3rd of October. By the way, printed version
of both issues will be given to each team on upcoming WPC in Bulgaria.
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The first issue of "Forsmarts Puzzle Book" is available. This compilation contains over 20 puzzles.
I highly recommend this book to all participants of upcoming WPC 2006 in Bulgaria. |
The winner of the 8th season is Alan Murray! Viacheslav Kabanovich came second, and Tomoaki Tokunaga is third. My congratulations to all the winners!
Issue 29 (88).
Download issue 29 (88) in PDF (188 Kb)
Issue 28 (87).
Download issue 28 (87) in PDF (194 Kb)
Issue 27 (86).
Download issue 27 (86) in PDF (235 Kb)
New season is started! It's gonna be a "Sudoku season". 1st World Sudoku Championship inspired me a lot! :) Note that it will be shorten a little: 20 puzzles in the 9 issues. Good luck to everyone!