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swaroop2011
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-11-06 3:37 PM |
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bansalparijat
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Country : India | Are there any hints to solve Quadro Sudoku. Stuck at practice booklet 6*6 variation. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | bansalparijat - 2014-11-10 10:00 PM
Are there any hints to solve Quadro Sudoku. Stuck at practice booklet 6*6 variation.
Hi
I think the trick is to find the cells which can be only odd/ or only even but we don't know the digits yet.
Here are steps which I followed:
1 ) getting 1's - Trivial steps - you get 1 at r1c3,r3c4 and r4c1
2 ) Now lets see which cells have to be odd - r4c2 and r3c5 has to be odd as 2,4,6 can't come there.
3 ) Now notice r2c4 r2c5 r3c4 r3c5 forms quadro and out of which we know three of them are odd and hence r2c4 will be even.
4 ) This implies r2c4 is 2 and r2c6 is 3.
so you can keep putting which cells are known odd or even, which will help to avoid 2*2.
Not giving complete solution as these are few starting steps which will get you started. You can post again in case you are stuck at some point.
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bansalparijat
Posts: 5
Country : India | Somehow I missed step 3. I started at 9*9 and was able to solve it. After that my eyes could see step 3 in 6*6 and I am able to solve.
Thanks a lot for your efforts and such a nice explaination |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2014-11-15 5:04 AM Link to PB is not correct. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Joo M.Y - 2014-11-15 5:04 AM
Link to PB is not correct. Fixed. |
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RALehrer
Posts: 31
Country : United States | After taking the test I noticed that the points as listed on the answer form do not correspond to the values given in the puzzle booklet! |
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purvishah
Posts: 15
Country : India | hello
i want to solve the odd even variations offline. but i have to take printout from one computer and while submitting the answer i wont have access to that computer so will have to do it from another one. so i will have to login twice. is that ok? |
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Country : India | Yes. OK. purvishah - 2014-11-15 11:28 AM
hello
i want to solve the odd even variations offline. but i have to take printout from one computer and while submitting the answer i wont have access to that computer so will have to do it from another one. so i will have to login twice. is that ok? |
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ChessMaharaja
Posts: 6
Country : India | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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utkaarsh
Posts: 89
Country : India | Well crafted, Excellent quality of puzzles, i found leaning towards more difficult, loved Odd Sum Pair the most, Its a compliment for Deb " Your puzzles can mess any high IQ brain ", so i flunked is no surprise |
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utkaarsh
Posts: 89
Country : India | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | representation could have been better | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2014-11-15 6:29 PM Nice sudokus !
Thanks, Deb !
I knew my black cartridges were empty and that I would have some problems soon.... It was today :( . Fortunately the online solving was enabled. So, tanks for the online solving too :)
I have no idea if I could have made a better time with my plan of solving the 9*9 variants on paper.
Fred |
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debmohanty
Country : India | You should get the cartridges refilled soon since next weekend's Sudoku Surprise will not have online solving.
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mikeylyk
Posts: 16
Country : United States | i recommend getting ink on ebay |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2014-11-15 7:06 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-15 7:09 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2014-11-15 7:16 PM debmohanty - 2014-11-15 6:39 PM
You should get the cartridges refilled soon since next weekend's Sudoku Surprise will not have online solving.
:wink:
Yes, it's planned. My problem is that when my printer tells me that the cartridges are empty, it's far to be true, I can still print a lot of sheets until it doesn't print correctly. So I prefer to wait until it's really empty, hoping there is no sudoku tournament that day ... |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-15 9:29 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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Yuhei Kusui
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Country : Japan | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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wgryciuk
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Country : Poland | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Nice excellent puzzles.
But i guess not a good test for me.
Anyways, My favorite was Odd Sum Pair. |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 328
Country : India | Thanks Deb for awesome puzzles.... however two wrongs put me off... |
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SRI VIDHYAA P G
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debmohanty
Country : India | SRI VIDHYAA P G - 2014-11-16 11:56 AM
How to download the password?
Go to the submission page. Login there. Click on start "Odd Even Variations". You will see the password. |
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purvishah
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Country : India | Nice puzzles. This one was the first for me as came to know about sudoku mahabhrat just 3-4 days back.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-16 2:57 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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MrLiang
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Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2014-11-16 4:46 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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margareta456
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Country : Poland | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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purvishah
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Country : India | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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greenhorn
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Country : Slovakia | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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debmohanty
Country : India | purvishah - 2014-11-16 12:38 PM
Nice puzzles. This one was the first for me as came to know about sudoku mahabhrat just 3-4 days back.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance.
Thanks for the feedback.
I think you have got a good score considering that 1 ) this is your first participation 2 ) there are no submission from you in last 30 minutes or so.
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davep
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Country : United States | davep posted @ 2014-11-16 7:30 PM Deb - excellent set of puzzles my friend! I was making very good time until the large quadro. Made a goofy mistake early on, and took way too long trying to fix it. Not only did I still get that one wrong, but I cost myself the extra few minutes I needed to finish the last puzzle. Nevertheless, enjoyable as always. Regards to the LMI crew, Dave |
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neerajmehrotra
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Country : India | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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purvishah
Posts: 15
Country : India | Thank you.
I did practice from the booklets of earlier rounds and insructions booklet of odd and even variations,as you had suggested.
Not new to sudoku completely. I participated in the Bombay Times Competition last year and had managed to clear the first round.
Thanks.
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2014-11-16 10:34 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
Encompassing the less common variants,this episode of SM turned out to be very difficult for me.With about 2 minutes left on the clock and 25 odd cells to be filled in the odd even count (15 ),I made a desperate attempt and guessed at 2 circled cells knowing that chances of finishing it logically are close to nil.Thankfully and luckily,the guesses turned out to be right and the time was just enough to submit the 2 answer keys . Even though the outcome is that I have completed all,I'm not content with the way that I solved this test, as I remember resorting to guesswork in 3 sudokus atleast. Oddly,my favourites in this test or the ones that I enjoyed solving the most are the classics as the rest were mostly a kind of struggle between me and the sudokus.I wasted a lot of time on the first sudoku that I attempted (Odd even count (5 ) ) just like in the last episode.Got broken twice and then noticed the logical continuation.Not a great thing to experience at the beginning of a test. So to conclude,an interesting and a very difficult test.Not surprising though,because the author is Deb!. The sudokus were excellently constructed .Thanks a lot for a great test Deb. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | kishy72 - 2014-11-16 10:34 PM
Encompassing the less common variants,this episode of SM turned out to be very difficult for me.With about 2 minutes left on the clock and 25 odd cells to be filled in the odd even count(15),I made a desperate attempt and guessed at 2 circled cells knowing that chances of finishing it logically are close to nil.Thankfully and luckily,the guesses turned out to be right and the time was just enough to submit the 2 answer keys .
Even though the outcome is that I have completed all,I'm not content with the way that I solved this test,
as I remember resorting to guesswork in 3 sudokus atleast.
Oddly,my favourites in this test or the ones that I enjoyed solving the most are the classics as the rest were mostly a kind of struggle between me and the sudokus.I wasted a lot of time on the first sudoku that I attempted(Odd even count(5)) just like in the last episode.Got broken twice and then noticed the logical continuation.Not a great thing to experience at the beginning of a test.
So to conclude,an interesting and a very difficult test.Not surprising though,because the author is Deb!.
The sudokus were excellently constructed .Thanks a lot for a great test Deb.
This is interesting because overall (including the Chain ) I found Round 3 easier than Round 2. Maybe you are just not familiar with the O-E marking ways to make these puzzles easier? I am bringing up this point mainly because this is one of the reasons for categorizing the variants - to discuss specific techniques that may be common to a category.
My only pause was on the 6x6 Odd Sum Pair because I was being stupid with eliminating a possibility I shouldn't have. Everything else went pretty smoothly. |
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2014-11-17 1:26 AM prasanna16391 - 2014-11-17 12:11 AM
This is interesting because overall (including the Chain) I found Round 3 easier than Round 2.
Subjective, I guess.I managed to finish episode 2 in about 65 mins and the current one dragged me until the very last.So you can pretty much sum up how difficult it was for me.
Maybe you are just not familiar with the O-E marking ways to make these puzzles easier? I am bringing up this point mainly because this is one of the reasons for categorizing the variants - to discuss specific techniques that may be common to a category.
You have hit the nail on the head.I too felt that the lack of familiarity with those O-E marking hurt me a lot.Also, I probably should have solved the example puzzles of the new variants like Odd sum pair and Odd Even count which I failed to do...... |
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davep
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Country : United States | davep posted @ 2014-11-17 1:28 AM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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Maksim
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Country : Belarus | Maksim posted @ 2014-11-17 7:28 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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puzzlemad
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Country : United Kingdom | Thanks for these. First competition for me for ages and no wrong submissions either. :) |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-17 9:02 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-17 9:06 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | 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 | |
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puzzlemad
Posts: 28
Country : United Kingdom | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 don't know if it was my printer, but I found the shading on the cells for teh even sudoku very dark. I'd actually printed the example booklet off a different printer and that was fine. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | kishy72 - 2014-11-17 1:26 AM
You have hit the nail on the head.I too felt that the lack of familiarity with those O-E marking hurt me a lot.Also, I probably should have solved the example puzzles of the new variants like Odd sum pair and Odd Even count which I failed to do......
The way I see it is, now you have a better idea where your strengths and weaknesses are, and that's a net positive to take out of it ; ) I generally just circle the odds. Might be better markings out there, but practicing the types basically lets you try out such markings, and grow accustomed to the ones that suit you specifically. |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-11-17 11:31 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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easonrevant
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Country : United States | | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | representation could have been better | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many easy puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Average | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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detuned
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Country : United Kingdom | detuned posted @ 2014-11-18 4:27 AM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
In its own understated way, I thought was as good a Sudoku test as I've solved for quite a while! |
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bubbler
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Country : South Korea | bubbler posted @ 2014-11-18 8:19 AM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | 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 | |
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Administrator
Country : India | Password removed and solutions appended. |
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lenzo
Posts: 22
Country : ITALY | lenzo posted @ 2014-11-18 10:22 PM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | 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 | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Congratulations Rakesh, Kishore and Saheer for taking the top 3 Indian spots. After 3 rounds, Kishore leads the leaderboard, followed by Rakesh and Jayant.
Congratulations also to Jan, Kota and TiiT for their very impressive timings and finishing as top 3 overall.
Thank you everyone for their feedback, I'm happy that the round was generally liked by all.
There has been some comments about the difficulty of some sudokus - I don't have much to add other than what Prasanna has already mentioned. But I would encourage players (especially new players ) to post here if they are not able to solve any of the variants logically.
So, three rounds over now, four more to go. It has been an exciting tournament for the organizers with so many Indian players participating.
Over to Rakesh for the Outside round.
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Sudoku Mahabharat - Odd Even Variations - 15th-17th Nov