#29 - UKPC 2024 puzzles

Currently catching up with posting some puzzles on this blog. Like in 2023, in 2024 I helped to create puzzles for the UK puzzle championship (UKPC). The championship was divided into two rounds of 90 minutes each, with 540 points up for grabs in each round (so 6 points per minute). Round 1 can be found here and round 2 can be found here. Below you can find the puzzles I created.


1.2 Suguru (15 points)

Rules

Place a number into each cell so that each region contains the numbers from 1 to N with no repeats, where N is the number of cells in the region. Numbers of the same value may not touch one another, not even diagonally.



1.5 Country Road (18 points)

Rules

Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells which passes through each region exactly once. A number in a region represents how many cells in the region are visited by the loop. Orthogonally adjacent cells across a region border may not both be unused.


Solve on Penpa



1.11 Cocktail Lamp (18 points)

Rules

Shade some cells such that all shaded cells within a region form a single orthogonally connected group. Shaded groups may not be orthogonally adjacent, but must all form a single diagonally connected network. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.


Solve on Penpa



1.15 Touching Polyominoes (51 points)

Rules

Place each polyomino from the bank given outside the grid into the grid so that no polyominoes touch one another orthogonally. Rotating and reflecting polyominoes is allowed. Every grid point on which two polyominoes touch diagonally is marked with a dot.


Solve on Penpa



2.5 Voxas (21 points)

Rules

Divide the grid into 1x2 and 1x3 regions. Borders must separate two different regions. Borders with white dots separate regions with the same size and orientation. Borders with black dots separate regions with neither the same size nor the same orientation. Borders with grey dots separate regions with either the same size or the same orientation, but not both.


Solve on Penpa



2.7 Snake (12 points)

Rules

Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting path which does not touch itself, not even diagonally. Black circles must lie on one end of the path. White circles must lie somewhere along the path, but not at an end. A number outside the grid represents how many cells in the corresponding row or column are shaded.


Solve on Penpa



2.15 Kakuro (Non-consecutive) (71 points)

Rules

Place a number from 1 to 9 into each empty cell so that no number is repeated in any unobstructed horizontal or vertical line. A clue on the bottom of a blocked cell represents the sum of the numbers in the vertical line below it. A clue on the right side of a blocked cell represents the sum of the numbers in the horizontal line to its right. Clues cannot see numbers through other blocked cells. Pairs of orthogonally adjacent cells may not contain consecutive numbers.


Solve on Penpa






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