MII and Regions - 16th-19th March - Puzzle Ramayan and IPC Qualifier
@ 2018-03-10 12:29 PM (#24482) (#24482) Top

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Link for rules and other details about Puzzle Ramayan: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2018pr.asp
Instructions for MII and Regions: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201803/


@ 2018-03-12 7:16 PM (#24494 - in reply to #24482) (#24494) Top

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Logic Masters India announces Made in India (MII) and Regions - third episode of Puzzle Ramayan 2018

Dates : 16th - 19th March

Instruction Booklet & Submission : Link

Author : Prasanna Seshadri

@ 2018-03-13 9:07 AM (#24500 - in reply to #24482) (#24500) Top

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kiwijam posted @ 2018-03-13 9:07 AM

The Rassi Silai example puzzle in the IB has the solution's internal walls, they should be removed.
@ 2018-03-13 5:11 PM (#24503 - in reply to #24500) (#24503) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-13 5:11 PM

kiwijam - 2018-03-13 9:07 AM

The Rassi Silai example puzzle in the IB has the solution's internal walls, they should be removed.


Yes. Some internal walls can be given but here all internal walls are displayed. This will be corrected in the next version of IB.
@ 2018-03-15 2:47 PM (#24509 - in reply to #24503) (#24509) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-15 2:47 PM

Points Table

@ 2018-03-15 5:12 PM (#24511 - in reply to #24482) (#24511) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-15 5:12 PM

Updated IB


The updated IB - with points, and minor update in rassi silai example - is available now: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201803/

@ 2018-03-16 12:07 AM (#24512 - in reply to #24511) (#24512) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-16 12:07 AM

Delay in Start


The test start is delayed by 12 hours, and will now start at 12 PM IST on 16th March.

@ 2018-03-16 9:59 AM (#24523 - in reply to #24512) (#24523) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-16 9:59 AM

Previous winners of similar PR contests:

@ 2018-03-16 11:58 AM (#24525 - in reply to #24482) (#24525) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-16 11:58 AM

Puzzle Booklet


The Puzzle Booklet is now available on the contest page. It has 9 pages.

@ 2018-03-16 12:01 PM (#24526 - in reply to #24525) (#24526) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-16 12:01 PM

The test has started.
@ 2018-03-16 12:31 PM (#24527 - in reply to #24482) (#24527) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-16 12:31 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Araf Squared
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-16 8:24 PM (#24528 - in reply to #24482) (#24528) Top

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yureklis posted @ 2018-03-16 8:24 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop Instructionless
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Thanks Prasanna, this one is a lovely test.

Sometimes I act so stupid, like I've acted here. I spent 10-12 minutes for the 2nd Rassi Silai puzzle because of the grey region. I thought that all nine regions should have own path, and of course I tried to make it happened. However, I couldn't accompish the my weird goal :D In 2012, in Croatia, there was a part and that part contains Battleship and Snake puzzles. I'm reall good at Snake puzzles, so I gave a shot, but after several minutes I couldn't solve, and I was sure that there was not any solution of that puzzle. It was obvious, it's impossible to place a snake into the grid. Then, I saw my stupidty, this was not a Snake puzzle, this one's a Battleship puzzle which were given only two one-unit ships of the fleet. I assumed those were the Snake's end points :D So, I did similar things in here, and lost so much times, because the grey region had to be empty :D

Thanks Prasanna, again!
@ 2018-03-16 8:42 PM (#24529 - in reply to #24482) (#24529) Top

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JonaS2010 posted @ 2018-03-16 8:42 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Araf Squared
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Thanks for a beautiful set of puzzles! Hard to pick a favourite among them, but Araf squared was fantastic (and I normally dislike araf - or so I thought - so that's saying something...).

My only complaint is that some answer keys were a bit too long, four rows/columns for Fillomino seems too much to me. Also, the answer key for Slash Pack was super weird. (I guess it may have actually taken me longer to enter the answer code than to solve the puzzle...) Is there any reason for the choiche of f and b? I had to check the instructions every time because I couldn't remember which was which.
@ 2018-03-16 9:31 PM (#24530 - in reply to #24482) (#24530) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-16 9:31 PM

f = forward slash, b = back slash
@ 2018-03-16 10:03 PM (#24531 - in reply to #24482) (#24531) Top

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detuned posted @ 2018-03-16 10:03 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Araf Squared
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys were horrible
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Many puzzles were worth too much or too little
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Again, the feedback form leaves a lot to be desired. I don't think too many hard puzzles is a bad thing, and I don't know if you are measuring distribution by #of puzzles or #of points - but I think in either case hard puzzles accounts for much more than this supposed 10% target.

I also find it hard to believe that anyone gave an honest second opinion about those answer keys! Some were certainly not proportional to the points available for a particular puzzle.

Other than that, quite a nice test. Thanks!
@ 2018-03-16 10:24 PM (#24532 - in reply to #24530) (#24532) Top

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detuned posted @ 2018-03-16 10:24 PM

Administrator - 2018-03-16 4:31 PM

f = forward slash, b = back slash


Might this be pushing the boundaries of "culture neutral" a little too far? Was any consideration given to using / and \ instead?
@ 2018-03-17 1:18 AM (#24534 - in reply to #24482) (#24534) Top

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kousek-nebe posted @ 2018-03-17 1:18 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop Instructionless
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-17 6:32 AM (#24535 - in reply to #24482) (#24535) Top

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WA1729 posted @ 2018-03-17 6:32 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Very nice test!

Favorite Puzzles:

6 Place by Product
11 Balance Loop Instructionless
20 Slash Pack
21 Araf Squared

Thank you!
@ 2018-03-17 11:00 AM (#24536 - in reply to #24482) (#24536) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-17 11:00 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Rassi Silai
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Many puzzles were worth too much or too little
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-17 3:30 PM (#24537 - in reply to #24482) (#24537) Top

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forcolin posted @ 2018-03-17 3:30 PM

was there any problems in the format of the slash pack? I kept receiving error messages
@ 2018-03-17 7:35 PM (#24538 - in reply to #24482) (#24538) Top

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Gotroch posted @ 2018-03-17 7:35 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop Instructionless
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-17 9:12 PM (#24539 - in reply to #24482) (#24539) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-17 9:12 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Araf
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-17 11:40 PM (#24540 - in reply to #24482) (#24540) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-17 11:40 PM

forcolin - 2018-03-17 3:30 PM

was there any problems in the format of the slash pack? I kept receiving error messages

You entered '-' instead of numbers. However, we will review your (and everyone else's) submissions for slash pack, as that is an error in entering a "given"
@ 2018-03-18 2:56 AM (#24542 - in reply to #24482) (#24542) Top

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bob posted @ 2018-03-18 2:56 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Rassi Silai
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys were horrible
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth too much or too little
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


I normally really enjoy the PR sets but found this one VERY frustrating. Point distribution seemed off. Especially with unfamiliar puzzle types, I use point values to identify easier puzzles to start with. Here, it seemed the opposite. I thought the 2-point rassi silai was the hardest one. The 1-point place by product took a lot of trial and error for me. Could be my own experience though.
The answer keys for slash pack were extremely frustrating. I painstakingly wrote b's and f's on my diagonal walls and carefully typed them. All were wrong. Tried capital and small letters, turned my paper, quadruple checked solutions and rules. I still don't understand what I am doing wrong and wasted a lot of time. Ugh.
Aside from these issues I liked seeing new types. I really liked the rassi silai and (ragular) araf.
@ 2018-03-18 12:51 PM (#24543 - in reply to #24482) (#24543) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-18 12:51 PM

Was any consideration given to using / and \ instead?


Yes. But that causes a glitch in the scores. We can mention next time such a case arises that we will accept the answer if b and f are switched too as long as they are consistent.
@ 2018-03-18 4:20 PM (#24544 - in reply to #24482) (#24544) Top

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swaroop2011 posted @ 2018-03-18 4:20 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many medium difficult puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Araf Squared
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Excellent set of puzzles once again.

Only 1 complaint, the answer keys of slash pack was hard. The solving itself was so easy. Wasted lots of time entering the answer key and trying to correct it.

Logic was very nice behind every puzzle.

Favourite was Araf Squared and balance loop instructionless.

Nice test.
@ 2018-03-18 7:43 PM (#24545 - in reply to #24482) (#24545) Top

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lenson posted @ 2018-03-18 7:43 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many medium difficult puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-18 10:47 PM (#24547 - in reply to #24482) (#24547) Top

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kishy72 posted @ 2018-03-18 10:47 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Average
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Slash Pack
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth too much or too little
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


This round turned out to be even worse than the previous PR round.Too many hard puzzles just slowed everything down .Lengthy answer keys didn't help the case either.If the answer keys for Fillomino had been reduced to two rows or 2 columns or a row and column and better for a few other puzzles like balance loop(a few rows instead of all rows) , there would have been sufficient time to solve all slash pack puzzles which I did eventually after the contest and found them to be the least troublesome and fun to solve.
@ 2018-03-18 11:16 PM (#24548 - in reply to #24482) (#24548) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-18 11:16 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-18 11:21 PM (#24549 - in reply to #24540) (#24549) Top

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Panni posted @ 2018-03-18 11:21 PM

Yes, I got my two penalties for entering wrongly only '-' and slashes. :( then I tried numbers for non-slash cells. I always pay no real attention to the answer key part in the IB. :) Should change this habit..

Edited by Panni 2018-03-18 11:22 PM
@ 2018-03-19 2:57 AM (#24550 - in reply to #24482) (#24550) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-19 2:57 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


1-2 point puzzles need a much shorter answer key. I spent more time on Slash Pack trying to get the answer key right than I did solving the puzzles in the first place.
@ 2018-03-19 3:50 AM (#24551 - in reply to #24482) (#24551) Top

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rob posted @ 2018-03-19 3:50 AM

I join the crowd of people having trouble with the answer keys. Having to enter the numbers was very unexpected to me. But of course I didn't study the instruction booklet carefully here. But at least the description could have stated "Use digits for given numbers, '-' for an empty cell,, ...". F/B is not great but better than /\, since backslash can be really hard to enter if you're not on an English keyboard layout. On croco-puzzle we asked only diagonal/non-diagonal back in the day: https://www.croco-puzzle.com/Raetselspass/Ue-Raetsel/ue-raetsel2.php... I think that might give enough information?

Apart from that small bump, I had a lot of fun with the puzzles, thank you!

Edited by rob 2018-03-19 3:56 AM
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chaotic_iak posted @ 2018-03-19 3:04 PM

I also have the same complaint about Slash Pack answer keys, but I guess that's why there's Claim button.

I also wonder if N/Z (backslash and forward slash, see their diagonal lines) would have been better in avoiding the culture-based key.
@ 2018-03-19 7:21 PM (#24555 - in reply to #24482) (#24555) Top

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Para posted @ 2018-03-19 7:21 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop Instructionless
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Mostly perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


I struggled a lot through the Araf Squared puzzles, which lost me a lot of time.

I messed up the answer keys to the Slash Pack puzzles. When I finally figured it out after going back to the instruction booklet, I didn't have enough time left to correct them all. I don't really understand the point of having to put in the numbers instead of just marking them as empty cells to be honest. It's the same thing within the rules of the puzzle as slashes can't be in numbered cells and the numbers are in set places. It could have been clarified to insert the numbers as well in the instructions as mostly clue cells are counted as empty cells in these types of puzzles that don't involve inserting numbers into cells.
@ 2018-03-19 8:48 PM (#24556 - in reply to #24482) (#24556) Top

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vopani posted @ 2018-03-19 8:48 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Rassi Silai
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Some really nice puzzles there. But again, I think this was too hard for a PR round.

The answer keys format was quite poor and cumbersome.
@ 2018-03-19 9:34 PM (#24557 - in reply to #24482) (#24557) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-19 9:34 PM

 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount


@ 2018-03-20 1:23 AM (#24559 - in reply to #24482) (#24559) Top

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ghirsch posted @ 2018-03-20 1:23 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop Instructionless
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Solid puzzles overall, though I agree with the complaints about the answer keys. The Slash Pack keys were time consuming (e.g. there could have been just two rows/columns instead of 4) and confusing. The Fillomino keys were time consuming too. And the Rassi Silai key seems like it should depend more on the whole grid.

Again though, the puzzles were fun. My favorites were Rassi Silai (I'd never seen it before, but it was a fun variant of typical path puzzles), and the instructionless balance loop.

I would be curious to see a logical solution to the Araf Squared puzzles too, they fell reasonably quickly to intuition/guessing, but I couldn't find any good real deductions.

Edited by ghirsch 2018-03-20 1:25 AM
@ 2018-03-20 2:53 AM (#24560 - in reply to #24482) (#24560) Top

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alberto posted @ 2018-03-20 2:53 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Slash Pack
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-20 9:06 AM (#24561 - in reply to #24560) (#24561) Top

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Eugene Porter posted @ 2018-03-20 9:06 AM

I really enjoyed the test especially the slash pack. I am wondering about the first Araf puzzle as I can't seem to figure out where the five in the top row goes. It is 5 or 7 away from the 7.
@ 2018-03-20 11:28 AM (#24562 - in reply to #24482) (#24562) Top

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amitsowani posted @ 2018-03-20 11:28 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Fillomino
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-20 2:42 PM (#24563 - in reply to #24482) (#24563) Top

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kiwijam posted @ 2018-03-20 2:42 PM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys could have been better
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


The Slash Pack answer keys were pretty bad, I felt it took me longer to enter 40 characters of digits, hyphens, Fs and Bs then solve the 2 point puzzle. I was constantly reminding myself which way F and B went, perhaps you can allow slashes next time? And making us fill in given digits is just annoying, as now I can't leave my fingers hovering over keys while I only look at the paper.
The Instructionless was interesting but no room in the black cells to write deduced numbers (I don't have a white pen like in the example solution!)
Anyway, the puzzles were excellent, and the Araf Squared weren't as scary as the WPC's. Thanks for a great contest. :D
@ 2018-03-20 5:39 PM (#24564 - in reply to #24549) (#24564) Top

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mikeylyk posted @ 2018-03-20 5:39 PM

i try to have the instructions on my computer screen during the test, just in case i am not sure about a certain point. keeping a printed copy handy or having it on your mobile phone could also work, depending on where, what which, etc
@ 2018-03-21 12:54 AM (#24565 - in reply to #24482) (#24565) Top

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RameshLMI posted @ 2018-03-21 12:54 AM

 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Fillomino
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys


@ 2018-03-21 1:26 AM (#24566 - in reply to #24482) (#24566) Top

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ABcDexter posted @ 2018-03-21 1:26 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Rassi Silai
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-21 1:32 AM (#24567 - in reply to #24482) (#24567) Top

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Rubben posted @ 2018-03-21 1:32 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Place By Product
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-21 1:33 AM (#24568 - in reply to #24482) (#24568) Top

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An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-21 1:33 AM

 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Balance Loop
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Answer keys were horrible
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2018-03-21 8:02 AM (#24569 - in reply to #24482) (#24569) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2018-03-21 8:02 AM

Congratulations to Endo Ken, Ryusuke Nishiyama, and Yuki Kawabe for making it an all-Japan Top 3, yet again. Endo Ken was more than 17 minutes ahead of the second placed participant!

Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Rohan Rao, Amit Sowani and Swaroop Guggilam for taking the top 3 places.

Of the 171 participants, 30 were from India, and 26 from Japan. Tamekasa Aoki (Japan) was the first to start the test while Anubhav Balodhi (India) was the last person to start the test. 22 participants completed the set of 22 puzzles, within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 46.4.

Fillomino and Rassi Silai were the most solved puzzles, while Araf Squared and Balance Loop instructionless were the least solved.

Thanks Prasanna Seshadri for the puzzles, and all participants who provided valuable feedback.

Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.