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CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2010

Welcome to the 2010 CiSRA Puzzle Competition web site. The puzzles here have an unusual twist: no instructions are provided, and each puzzle works differently. New puzzlers may wish to consult our puzzle solving guide and warm up with puzzles from previous years before registering for our annual competition. Entry is free. Australian students can win prizes (terms and conditions apply).

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News

24 May 2010
The 2010 Competition is over. Congratulations to everyone who solved puzzles, and particularly to our top 3 teams in each category:

Competition winners      Prize winners        Iron Brain winners  
1    plugh 1    Melbourne Storm 1    Veep
2    Melbourne Storm     2    Fo' Quizzle 2    The Smoking GNU
3    Fo' Quizzle 3    Professional Cake Eaters 3    Projectyl's Gone Rogue

See the team stats page for the final scores and rankings of all teams. We hope you had as much fun solving the puzzles as we did creating them.

Worked solutions for each puzzle can be found on the puzzle page, and the full answer log is now available. Credits for the 2010 Competition.

Please fill in the feedback form to let us know what you liked and disliked about the 2010 competition. If you have lengthy feedback, please send e-mail to puzzles@cisra.canon.com.au.

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2010 Competition Dates

  • Mon 19 Apr - Site open for team registration.
  • Wed 28 Apr - Group 1 puzzles released.
  • Mon 17 May - Puzzle Week begins. Group 2 puzzles released.
  • Tue 18 May - Group 3 puzzles released. Hints released for Groups 1 and 2.
  • Wed 19 May - Group 4 puzzles released. Hints released for Groups 1, 2, 3.
  • Thu 20 May - Group 5 puzzles released. Hints released for Groups 1, 2, 3, 4.
  • Fri 21 May - Hints released for Groups 3, 4, 5.
  • Sat 22 May - Hints released for Groups 4, 5.
  • Sun 23 May - Hints released for Group 5.
  • Mon 24 May - Competition closes. Puzzle solutions released. Provisional prize winners contacted to verify eligibility.

All puzzle and hint releases are at 12:00 noon Australian Eastern Standard Time (2:00 am GMT).

Contact

Administrative and technical inquiries to the CiSRA Puzzlers: puzzles@cisra.canon.com.au