Google US Puzzle Championship

friedegg writes "Google has announced their sponsorship of the US Puzzle Championship, which they describe as a "a national online competition to identify America's most logical minds." Two winners will join the US Puzzle Team, and head to the Netherlands for the World Puzzle Championship in October. The US Puzzle Championship will be held Sunday, May 31 at 1pm EDT, but registration closes tomorrow, May 29 at 9pm EDT! Make sure you read the rules of the challenge if you plan to participate. The rules note that "Members of the Canadian puzzle team may also be selected using this test. Unofficial participation is open to all puzzlers world-wide.""

Comments

D'oh!

[Anonymous Coward]

America?s most logical minds"

Oddly appropriate for the topic to have a question mark in there.

Re:Heard of the Eternity Puzzle?

[machine of god]

Unlike normal jigsaw puzzles, there is no picture

When I was a kid I used to solve puzzles upside down. I thought that the picture was supposed to be the prize when you're done. (nevermind the picutre on the box. I was a bit oblivious at times) It's not that hard.

Yikes

[The-Bus]

You know what would be really embarassing? If people started Googling for the right answers.

Canadian puzzle team?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Members of the Canadian puzzle team may also be selected using this test."

Oh joy...I can get recruited to move to Canada...to do puzzles...

From wpc.puzzles.com...

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps this Google search will find you!

In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind. Now they're building the jokes into the articles, this is really getting out of hand!

That's just great

[Anonymous Custard]

Those archived qualifying tests were just what I needed to make myself feel really stupid first thing in the morning.

when i was a kid

[SolemnDragon]

when i was maybe five, i solved one in two minutes... with a screwdriver. My mum handed one to each of us and told us to make the colours all the same on every side. So we did. My sister took off all the stickers and put them on again as well as she could. I took a look at the stickers and decided they wouldn't peel well, so i just took it apart and out it back together again. She knew how sis had done hers, she couldn't figure out how i'd done mine till i handed her the screwdriver. She started locking the toolbox after that. *sigh* and it was a looong time before i got my own toolset. Funny, that- if you can't use a tool they worry that you're gonna hurt yourself with it... if you CAN, they worry about what you're going to use it on next...

Re:when i was a kid

[zulux]

There was this guy that I knew that could solve them in about four minutes - so I very carefuly heated the stickers on the corners with a hair driver and pealed them off with a razor and swaped them around. The cube became unsolvable - the relationships were just off for the cornet cubes.

It was facinating to watch him continually fail over the course of a weekend - I helpfully sugested that watching too much Red Dwarf could do that to one's mind.

Submitter loses 5 points for wrong answer..

[raehl]

To question number 0:

"If the deadline for entering a contest is 9 PM on a Thursday which falls on the 29th of the month, and the contest takes place on the 31st of the month, what day of the week does the contest take place on?"

"Sunday."

Ooops.