Math Olympics Program

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This was an in-person puzzle with four events. A description of each of the four events, with links to the puzzle content that had been printed out, is given here.

Athletics

This event was a relay event styled after ARML. During the actual event, teams needed to run back and forth to pass answers too.

Cross-country skiing

This event was a cryptic crossword where two of the entries have had a three-letter substring deleted.

Golf

This was a code golf event, where teams needed to write a function to check whether a sudoku grid was valid. Upon completion, they received a letter sudoku.

Nordic combined

This was a game where teams were shown slides with two interleaved country names and needed to unweave them. Upon completion, they received three more strings:

LKUYXRGYEMZSBTOMAUNRG
EVANSDWATUINATUI
LMAIUTHRITUHANIIAUS