Welcome to the detailed solution key for the 2000 World Puzzle Championship Qualifying exam.  

Click on the puzzle name to go to the page where the solutions are described.  Italicized comments are comments from my personal experience with the puzzle, other solver's comments, notes from Nick Baxter (the coordinator of the US team and puzzlemaster for this test) and other mental jetsam.

Your comments are welcome -- email me at mwdaly@pobox.com.

Oh, I just switched the graphics from jpegs to gifs because they're faster, but most of them have the black line on the right side.  I know about it, and I'll fix it soon.

  1. Crisscross
  2. Cross Sums
  3. No U-turn Maze
  4. The Common Touch
  5. Paint by Numbers
  6. Battleships
  7. Order in the Court
  8. Statue of Liberty
  9. Missing Peace
  10. Tile
  11. Knight Moves
  12. Digit Fidget
  13. Equations
  14. Weighs and Means
  15. Lunar Lockout
  16. Tetrahedron Painting
  17. Do or Die
  18. Eminent Domain
  19. Dem Bones
  20. Battleships Variation
  21. Hexaspiration
  22. Rolling Block Maze