The Philadelphia Inquirer is again hosting the National Sudoku Championship, on Saturday Oct 24.

The organizers just announced a block of rooms at the "official" hotel: Philadelphia Downtown Marriott.

The group code is "sdksdka". Rooms are $99, I think just for Friday and Saturday nights. Use this link for Marriott online reservations.

The results of the 2009 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship are now posted on the US Team site. And for the forth year in a row, ( Read more... )

The official test page, with file downloads, is now up ( Read more... )

The 2007 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship was yesterday, June 16. I started this journal to establish a focused a forum for feedback on the test and puzzles.

Administratively, this is the cleanest test I've run so far--as far as I know there were zero technical glitches. I finally invested in some software that allowed me to do stress/capacity ( Read more... )