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Tuesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Elizabeth Challies<br />
Puzzle expert in the zone<br />
Elizabeth Challies, 34, was recently crowned the <strong>2016</strong> New Zealand<br />
open vaki puzzle and sudoku champion. She bounced back from narrowly<br />
losing last year by seven points to register a record score of<br />
14,195. She speaks to Andrew King<br />
Elizabeth, you are the New<br />
Zealand Sudoku champion,<br />
how does that feel?<br />
It feels pretty good. I was<br />
really pleased with my score because<br />
I did better than last year.<br />
I was really in the zone that day.<br />
So it is all about the personal<br />
score rather than beating<br />
other players?<br />
Pretty much. I think the score<br />
matters more as I am trying to<br />
beat myself. I like to see improvement<br />
in everything I do.<br />
So when you found out you<br />
had won how did that feel?<br />
I actually thought there might<br />
have been a problem with the<br />
website when I saw my score.<br />
But then I realised I had beaten<br />
my last year’s score by quite a<br />
bit so I got pretty excited. Last<br />
year I placed second, I was extra<br />
determined this year as I had<br />
lost last year by the tiniest of<br />
margins.<br />
What did you win?<br />
The New Zealand Puzzle Association<br />
is posting a medal and<br />
a shirt to me for being the New<br />
Zealand champion.<br />
Tell me what it is like to<br />
compete in a sudoku tournament?<br />
It is a really friendly sort of<br />
competition because everyone<br />
is really competing with themselves.<br />
It is online and you can<br />
have as many goes as you want<br />
so there really is no pressure.<br />
I get the puzzle and just dive<br />
straight in, then it is just me and<br />
the puzzle.<br />
How did you get into sudoku?<br />
I have always loved puzzles. I<br />
like to try all them out and they<br />
are so accessible so I can get<br />
them anywhere. I have been into<br />
them since I was a little kid.<br />
What made you want to<br />
start competitively doing<br />
sudoku?<br />
I found the website when I<br />
was poking around on the internet,<br />
did a few for fun then saw<br />
there was a competition and<br />
said might as well have a go.<br />
Do you win prize money for<br />
the events?<br />
That would be nice, but no. It<br />
is all about personal satisfaction<br />
for me anyway, I just<br />
want to beat my last score.<br />
What was the first puzzle<br />
you did?<br />
I can’t remember what I got<br />
into first. I know I started off<br />
with puzzle books that have a<br />
variety of different ones in it to<br />
challenge myself.<br />
Where did she go to school?<br />
I went to Burnside High.<br />
Tell me a bit about how<br />
school was for you?<br />
I quite enjoyed school. I was<br />
quite motivated and kept my<br />
head down.<br />
Were you good at maths at<br />
school?<br />
At high school I was good<br />
at maths and science. But<br />
at primary school I was<br />
pretty good at English<br />
and literacy in general.<br />
But there was a switch<br />
in high school I am not<br />
sure how that came<br />
about.<br />
Tell me a bit about<br />
your friends?<br />
We were not<br />
sporty at all<br />
although a few of us<br />
did get into ballet.<br />
I love movies<br />
and coffee all the<br />
usual.<br />
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