Check out the movie Marty Cheek made from Puzzle Day photos! Thanks Marty!
Archive for February, 2008
Puzzle Day the Movie
February 19, 2008The Puzzles
February 5, 2008The Sudoku puzzles used in the competition, generously created for us by reining US and World Sudoku Champion Thomas Snyder, are now available on his blog. The adult crossword puzzles we used, of course, will be appearing all this week in the NY Times and can be found on their site.
Congratulations to…
February 5, 2008Congratulations to all our competitors! Here are the winners from Sunday’s event:
Adult Crossword Tournament:
Eric Maddy, First Place
Brian Kulman, Second Place
Claudia Zarnow, Third Place
Other perfect scorers: Allison Zaum, Deborah Adams, Michael Blake, Ann Livingston, Paula Hewitson, Jay Keller, David Schwartz, Brent Svendlaft, David Chambliss and Ilene Levine
Youth Crossword Tournament:
Mark Holmstrom, First Place
Alex Holmstrom, Second Place
Nithin Nedyanchath, Third Place
Adult Sudoku Tournament:
Eric Maddy, First Place
Allan Lebovitz, Second Place
Dave Holmstrom, Third Place
Youth Sudoku Tournament:
Tara McLaughlin, First Place
Mark Holstrom, Second Place
Garima Lunawat, Third Place
Judges’ Award for Best Handwriting
Crossword
Youth: Anuva Mittal
Adult: David Chambliss
Best Overall Morgan Hill Competitors
Adult: David Chambliss
Youth: Mark Holmstrom
Amazing Day!
February 4, 2008Thank you to everyone who made today such an amazing event! We’ll post photos, rankings and other information as they become available, so check back later. If you have photos, please post them to our Flickr group, send them to us at info@svpuzzle.org, or write and tell us where you have posted them.)
Things to do tomorrow
February 2, 2008Puzzle Day is listed in the SJ Mercury News as one of the 3 Things to Do Tomorrow (p. 5E)
Valley puzzle day is ripe for solving
Check out the annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day, featuring crossword and Sudoku tournaments for kids and adults, giant community crossword puzzles, workshops and a puzzles marketplace, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Morgan Hill Library, 660 W. Main Ave., Morgan Hill. $5 tournament registration; free for all others. www.svpuzzle.org.
Strengthen your mind
February 1, 2008Marty Cheek has a great column in today’s Morgan Hill Times, Strengthen your mind with Science Alive, Puzzle Day covering our event.
Puzzle Day is also listed in the Alternate 101 calendar (p, 2), inserted into the paper.
