Mindlords Battle in Puzzle Championships

Mindlords Battle in Puzzle Championships

Two young teens, New Zealand’s MindLords, are the early pacesetters in the NZ open vaki ® puzzle and sudoku championships. This online event ends next Sunday. Alphaeus Ang, the current national sudoku champion set the highest score in practice last week. Hard on his heels is Macleans College year nine student Kevin Guan, the 2014 NZ schools puzzle champion. He won that title as a student at Bucklands Beach Intermediate.

Mindlord Ang is also an accomplished chess player. He has achieved the title of candidate master (CM) and is defending his national sudoku and vaki ® puzzle title from Singapore while competing in the Asian schools individual chess championship.

The third front-runner for the national title is Andrew Willcox, New Zealand’s highest rated vakian. Bob Gandal, tournament organiser, hopes for a lot from Andrew. “He’s our flag bearer for old age and treachery in the battle against youth and skill. Queensland showed it could be done on Wednesday night. We’ll see how Andrew goes.”

Entry in the championship is free and open to all ages. Competitors need to register and log in to the www.puzzles.kiwi.nzweb-site and follow the links. Once they click on the ‘set a championship score’ button they have thirty minutes to solve sudoku and vaki ® puzzles. The top four scores from solved puzzles are added together to give the championship score.

The championship is one of the events in the national pentamind championship, part of the MindSports festival being held in Thames over Queen’s birthday and the weekend of 6-7 June.

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