Monthly Archives: June 2010

So I get a t-shirt this year   not a google one, but a t-shirt none-the-less. Round 2 was a very strange round, I thought I was slow on Q1, but apparently I was unusually fast on Q2 – which … Continue reading →

So TCO10 round 1 finally came along, of course I’ve been sick all week and TCO starts their competitions at 2am, so I wasn’t feeling in the best of shape for getting through in  the top 850. But I did, … Continue reading →

So I’ve updated to wordpress 3 and switched over to their new default style.  Have to say I think it is a huge improvement, the new column width and font size is much more readable. I do need to work … Continue reading →

So round 3 was last weekend, and no exceptional circumstances were declared so just the top 500 went through (which didn’t include me). With only the top 25 going onwards, the questions were always going to be tough, and for … Continue reading →

On Kwontom Loop forum, someone asked for Masyu puzzles, so I copied my LoopDeLoop silverlight game engine from last weekend and spent a day hacking it to change it to be like Masyu instead. The result is http://www.themissingdocs.net/Twist.html. Still a … Continue reading →

So, 500th place was the same score as me, just 30minutes faster.  If I had of started with question 3 rather than wasting almost an hour on question 1, I would have gotten through.  Had I submitted anything else successfully … Continue reading →

Didn’t quite make it through – was happy with my one solution, unhappy that I didn’t get any of the smalls out for the other 3, despite trying 2 of them for about an hour and a half.  I think … Continue reading →