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CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2010

This is the archive of the 2010 Puzzle Competition. Please visit the current competition site for information about the latest Puzzle Competition.

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).

CiSRA is Canon Information Systems Research Australia, a leading research and development centre for Canon.

News

24 May 2010
The 2010 competition is now over! Congratulations to the following teams:

Competition winners      Prize winners        Iron Brains        
1    plugh1    Melbourne Storm1    Veep
2    Melbourne Storm    2    Fo' Quizzle2    The Smoking GNU
3    Fo' Quizzle3    Professional Cake Eaters3    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 also available.

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2010 Competition Dates

Puzzle Week began on Monday 17 May, 2010, with the release of the Group 2 puzzles, and ran until Monday 24 May, 2010.

All puzzle and hint releases were 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