Darn. I tore through 4 of the 5 puzzles with great speed, but got stuck on the very first puzzle, the Sudoku challenge. Despite the fact that my only exposure to Sudoku has been through this contest, I had been doing quite well on them. My problem was purely observational; I kept on putting symbols in place that were clearly violating the constraints. Hey, it’s hard to keep track of nine weird looking symbols. So in the end, it took me 45-50 minutes to do the whole thing, 95% of that on the Sudoku, which I’m pretty sure is not winner-worthy. That’s OK – I heard the grand prize would’ve required more than $30,000 of federal taxes.