Posting from the evening after the 2018 German Logic Masters. It went decently well for me, with a third place after the main rounds which means I’m on the A-team again. My results on the two Rätselportal-rounds were bad as expected. On the other hand, finishing that fences sprint round first with quite a margin after 3:15 of 20:00 minutes was great. An unfortunate marking mistake in the final playoffs saw me lose a couple of minutes of time double-checking my correct solution. With no good way to fix this, I ended up fourth with the knowledge that first place was possible.

I made a couple of puzzles to prepare, two of which I’ve published on the Rätselportal already: A Japanese Sums/Masyu hybrid and a hand-constructed (with the help of a friend, thank you!) unclued 5×5 skyscraper blocks that I’m very happy with!

Some more I’ll post here. To start, here’s a The Largest Number. The type was introduced at the 2017 WPC in India. I don’t think I’ve seen one without given numbers before.

Rules Fill the grid with numbers such that each room contains the numbers from 1 to the size of the room. Equal numbers can not be next to each other horizontally or vertically. Circle the largest number in each room. Then also circled numbers can not be next to each other horizontally or vertically.