I'm going to try to post my WSC report soon (I've set aside this evening to do most of the writing, but they tend to get long). I'll probably split my retelling of the event from some philosophical points about sudoku competitions, which may make it easier to make my midnight deadline goal.

Anyway, I came back to the US with the nice surprise that my battleship sudoku made their way into GAMES. Since this is the magazine I first learned to love puzzles with (Battleships, specifically), it is nice that my combination of battleship and sudoku found a home in their July issue. It also was a particularly nice surprise as, while I had asked my publisher to suggest them to GAMES since they publish Sterling puzzles there from time to time, I had never heard that the spread was accepted so it was indeed news even to me.

All of the puzzles come from my book, so if you got to this entry by searching "Battleship Sudoku" and "GAMES" and want to know more about the puzzle, get that book. You can also find past examples of battleship sudoku and other sudoku variations by clicking over to my written puzzles page.

This one is goa-ing to be long, so I'll put it behind that friendly lj-cut.

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