Re: WPC PuzzlesmotrisSeptember 26 2012, 02:28:59 UTC
WPC puzzles are not made freely available; instead member nations of the WPF have publication rights in their countries for them. Some countries include them in their own magazines in mostly intact form, others as anthologies after a couple years. In the US, our first WPC puzzle book in awhile just came out although the title might not suggest that is what it is. It collects puzzles from about the last 5-6 years, as well as some training puzzles put together by my teammate and sometime co-author Wei-Hwa Huang.
If you want WPC-like puzzles and don't know of this source, I recommend checking out the tests at the Logic Masters India site. These are all freely available and have many creative designs. I've contributed two contests so far, the 20/10 Decathlon and 2011 Double Decathlon.
Re: WPC PuzzlesmotrisSeptember 29 2012, 02:25:48 UTC
I've not seen a copy of the book yet, but the Amazon image is definitely problematic. My first book Battleship Sudoku had my name misspelled on the back cover, which I never saw until they had printed them all.
I've now seen the book - Will brought some copies to the WPC. I can say that Wei-Hwa's name is correct on the cover, but the printer seemed to have made a font substitution and all the symbols inside the book (arrows, mines, negative signs) are now boxes. My quick skim doesn't suggest anything is unsolvable as a result, but this feels quite sloppy to me.
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If you want WPC-like puzzles and don't know of this source, I recommend checking out the tests at the Logic Masters India site. These are all freely available and have many creative designs. I've contributed two contests so far, the 20/10 Decathlon and 2011 Double Decathlon.
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