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What’s happening in the 3D crossworld
As many, but not all of you, will know, every year Bozzy (Nora) organises a lunch to celebrate the winners of the various competitions run as part of the 3D Crossword calendar. The two main presentations are for the 3D Crossword World Champion and for the winner of the RPM (Ray Parry-Morris) trophy. In addition,… Read more 2024 3D Crosswords Presentations Lunch
This year, for the first time, the marking of grids for both the World Championship and the RPM Trophy was carried out anonymously (i.e. designers’ names were not provided to the marking team). I have to say it was quite exciting to see the names of the winners eventually revealed. 3D World Championship ⭐ 1st… Read more Results of the 2023 3D World Championship and RPM Trophy competitions
Nutmeg (Margaret Irvine) has been a marvellous setter for the 3D Calendar from 2014 until 2023. Ten years of consistent brilliance. Three of your current 3D team have had their grids clued by her: Nora (Bozzy) once, Jos (Jolt) twice and myself (Mang) thrice, including this year’s June 2023 puzzle. We are so grateful to… Read more Margaret Irvine: A Tribute to Nutmeg
Wrap-up of Friday 31st March 2023 Sixteen of us gathered at The Market House restaurant in Cambridge, a lovely location where we were very well looked after. The owner, Bill Brogan, gave us a most interesting short talk on the history of the building and environs while we digested our excellent lunches (I so recommend… Read more 2022 3D Prizegiving Lunch
The two-part challenge resulted in a very close finish between first and second places, and our congratulations go to the winning duo Heather Knowles & Chris Cooper, and to all our competitors. We hope more of you will join in the annual competitions next year; if you don’t have a go, you might never realise… Read more Results of the 2022 World Championship competition
The instruction for the 2022 competition was: There are no qualifications required for this challenge and everyone is encouraged to enter, although World Championship entrants must submit a separate grid. Your task is to create a 3D grid with a theme suitable for our 2024 calendar, i.e. the year after next, or beyond. This can be an anniversary related… Read more Results of the 2022 RPM Trophy competition
It has been 3 years since we were able to meet for the annual 3D lunch in recognition of our different champions. That was in York in autumn 2019 when we presented the 2018 awards. Both 2020 and 2021 were perforce cancelled as the pandemic wrought its havoc on the country. Alan Chamberlain (Komorník) rustled… Read more 2020 3D Prizegiving Lunch
The instruction for the 2021 competition was: There are no qualifications required for this challenge and everyone is encouraged to enter, although World Championship entrants must submit a separate grid. Your task is to create a 3D grid with a theme suitable for our 2023 calendar, i.e. the year after next, or beyond. Anniversary themed… Read more Results of the 2021 RPM Trophy competition
The introduction and instruction for the 2021 competition was: We are a small team and are always looking for grids for the 2023 Calendar and potential extra puzzles, which is why this year both challenges require the design of a 3D grid, or indeed, if you are feeling inspired, grids, with a little bit more… Read more Results of the 2021 World Championship competition
This year we introduced a vote from solvers to select the 3D Calendar puzzle of the year. The clear winners were Sirius and Enigmatist with their amazing two sphere tribute to Araucaria with Shark’s inspired Freddie Mercury/Farrokh Balsara puzzle as runner up. Each voter was permitted three votes to be allocated as they felt appropriate.… Read more 2021 Puzzle of the Year