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It’s that time of year again when 3D super solvers get the chance to become distinguished designers and cracking clue writers. Our annual competitions are not only a fun challenge, but also a rich source of grids for future 3D Crossword Calendars. Past calendars have featured excellent grids from previous competition winners and the newly… Read more 2024 World Championship & RPM Trophy Competitions
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
3D Crossword World Champions The 3D Crossword World Championship is decided each year by a combination of skills, usually including solving, clue writing and grid design. 2023 – Rachel Sheldon “Rikki”2022 – Heather Knowles & Chris Cooper “Calluna”2021 – Alan Chamberlain “Komorník”2020 – Hamish Symington “Soup”2019 – Nick & Sarah Inglis “etc”2018 – Nick &… Read more Rolls of Honour
Now is the time for you to start preparing your entries for the 2023 World Championship and the RPM Trophy. We are a small team and are always looking for grids for the Calendar Puzzles and the Extra Puzzles, which is why both challenges require the design of a 3D grid, or indeed, if you… Read more 2023 World Championship & RPM Trophy Competitions
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
Now is the time for you to start preparing your entries for the 2022 World Championship and the RPM Trophies. We are a small team and are always looking for grids for the Calendar Puzzles and the Extra Puzzles, which is why both challenges require the design of a 3D grid, or indeed, if you… Read more 2022 World Championship & RPM Trophy Competitions
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 Instructions The November Extra puzzle is also the Tie-break Puzzle for the 2020 3D Crosswords World Championship. To qualify for the World Championship, solvers must have successfully solved at least 12 of the 2020 puzzles (which may include the August Extra). This Tie-break puzzle must be correctly solved in order to win the World… Read more Results of the 2020 3D Crosswords World Championship clue writing competition