Then it was over to Eric Westbrook, who demonstrated with the aid of netting, a balloon and some tubing how crossword grids can be adapted into different shapes (you had to be there!)
2025 3D Crosswords Prize-giving Lunch
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What’s happening in the 3D crossworld
Results of the 2024 3D World Championship and RPM Trophy competitions
This year we received six entries for the RPM Trophy and three for the World Championship (WC). The judges studied every grid – whose authorship had been hidden behind anonymising tags before being sent on to us. We may at some point have thought we could detect who – among regular entrants – was responsible… Read more Results of the 2024 3D World Championship and RPM Trophy competitions
2025 Printed calendar corrections
We are very sorry that this was necessary, but there are some corrections needed in the printed copies. The virtual calendar has been corrected and all individual puzzles published on the 2025 puzzles page will be correct. (If you downloaded a virtual calendar before 7 December 2024, you can download the latest version using your… Read more 2025 Printed calendar corrections
2024 3D Crosswords Presentations Lunch
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
Results of the 2023 3D World Championship and RPM Trophy competitions
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
Margaret Irvine: A Tribute to Nutmeg
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
2022 3D Prizegiving Lunch
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
Results of the 2022 World Championship competition
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
Results of the 2022 RPM Trophy 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
2020 3D Prizegiving Lunch
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