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[jonallen1966]

Just seen in Fridays London Evening standard
an advert for a new Sudoku comp starting
Monday 28th Nov 2005.
How Fast can you SuDoku "Win a trip for two to Japan."

Nothing on their website yet.
I Will post next week with more details.

[jonallen1966]

The competion started today .
You can enter up to 5 times , one entry per day.
Time how long it takes you to complete the following sudoku

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3--|-61|84-
-8-|-29|-1-
---+---+---
--1|---|58-
6--|---|13-
-4-|7--|---
---+---+---
-9-|--4|---
4-5|8--|9--
-6-|-3-|-5-




and email it to sudoku@entries.co.uk before Friday 2nd Dec
They will pick 10 fastest times over the week to compete in the final
to be held in London on Thurs 8th Dec.

They had a traget time of 15 mins for this one.
I won't embarass by myself by saying how long it took me,
but it was longer than their target!

[Pat]

qualifying puzzle [ 26 clues ]:

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 . . . | . . . | . . .
 3 . . | . 6 1 | 8 4 .
 . 8 . | . 2 9 | . 1 .
-------+-------+------
 . . 1 | . . . | 5 8 .
 6 . . | . . . | 1 3 .
 . 4 . | 7 . . | . . .
-------+-------+------
 . 9 . | . . 4 | . . .
 4 . 5 | 8 . . | 9 . .
 . 6 . | . 3 . | . 5 .

Final to be held 2005.Dec.8 (Thu) in London.

the qualifying puzzle was not so tough,
i wonder what level of difficulty they had in the Final??

- Pat