Threads 2k14 presents "Strange Loop", a new genre of AI and combinatorial search contests. It will contain challenges from puzzles like Sudoku, Kakuro, Rubik's Cube, and games like Reversi, for you to play with and devise effective search strategies and heuristics for constraint satisfaction and game playing.

Link to problem statements: http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/threads/strangeloop/problems

Link to event portal: http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/threads/strangeloop

The Online Judge for the contest will go live on 18th January, 2014 at 1800 hours IST (UTC + 5:30)

In your time zone : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Strange+Loop&iso=20140118T18&p1=505

Register here if you haven't registered before: http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/threads/register

Also, prizes worth INR 15k !