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wgryciuk
Posts: 24
Country : Poland | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-05-25 10:06 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship? | No, there were really few easy puzzles. | | | After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-25 11:55 PM Congrats to all the winners.
Well Done Amit with great performance.
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | In E1 Star battle my logic went like this.
1. Every region need to have 6 stars.
2. At C2 there must be a stars.
3. The same region holds 2 stars at column A and D.
4. So one star must be at B or C9.
5. The other small region holds 2 stars at column F and H.
6. One star at G 5/6/7.
7. One at I 2/3.
But i wasted hell of time and could not finish the puzzle. Can any one guide me were I went wrong. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India | devarajand - 2014-05-26 8:02 AM
In E1 Star battle my logic went like this.
1. Every region need to have 6 stars.
2. At C2 there must be a stars.
3. The same region holds 2 stars at column A and D.
4. So one star must be at B or C9.
5. The other small region holds 2 stars at column F and H.
6. One star at G 5/6/7.
7. One at I 2/3.
But i wasted hell of time and could not finish the puzzle. Can any one guide me were I went wrong.
You haven't gone wrong anywhere so far, but you can reduce things more. Remember that there can be only one star for each 2x2 area of cells. Dividing the "K" shape into this distribution helps - 1 star in I23/H3. 1 star in H34. 1 star in F34. One star in F56/G56. One star in F78. One star in H78. (G7 cannot be a star because you need 2 stars in F78/G7/H78 and this will contradict things ). You should be able to reduce it further from here. |
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spelvin
Posts: 19
Country : United States | spelvin posted @ 2014-05-26 8:33 AM I'm embarrassed, but I have no idea how the matching rule was supposed to work for A4. Can someone put me out of my misery? |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | G6 also cannot hold a star. If we place a star at G6, F8 and H8 must hold a star, this restricts placing any star between E9 and I9. Is this logic correct. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India | devarajand - 2014-05-26 9:03 AM
G6 also cannot hold a star. If we place a star at G6, F8 and H8 must hold a star, this restricts placing any star between E9 and I9. Is this logic correct.
No, you can still fit 2 stars in the remaining 4 cells of the row, A/D9 and B/C9. You can reduce it elsewhere on the K. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India | spelvin - 2014-05-26 8:33 AM
I'm embarrassed, but I have no idea how the matching rule was supposed to work for A4. Can someone put me out of my misery?
Hint: What are the images made up of? |
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2014-05-26 10:51 AM Congrats Amit, Rohan and Swaroop for the Podium finish. All the Best for the WPC. :-) |
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auroux
Posts: 145
Country : France | auroux posted @ 2014-05-26 11:12 AM Hmmm, my first time ever having a time bonus :) I think someone mistakenly configured the scoring page so that solving 26 puzzles would give a time bonus, but solving more wouldn't :-) Apart from that, great puzzles!
Denis |
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2014-05-26 12:52 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | I have a different complaint | |
Very nice puzzles! My only complaint is with Coded TomTom puzzle (C3 ). Symbol for division looks very similar to plus symbol. Maybe next time using / symbol for division might be better. Edited by Gotroch 2014-05-26 1:17 PM
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anujjain
Posts: 1
Country : India | | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB? | I understood most of them. | | | After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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WA1729
Posts: 61
Country : United States | WA1729 posted @ 2014-05-26 8:31 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India |
More details about the Prizes:
The top 3 participants receive a Logic Masters India mug, with their position displayed on it. Participants ranked 4th ~ 10th place will receive a Logic Masters India photo magnet.
A reminder that though e-certificates for participation will be sent out to all, participants can place orders for a hard copy of their certificate which will mention the rank and have the signature of the organizer. The price for a certificate to be shipped to you is Rs.99. You can place orders by emailing your LMI-id, full name, and the address you'd like the certificate/prize shipped to, to prasannaseshadri@logicmastersindia.com.
Note: All certificates and prizes will be distributed after the Indian Sudoku Championship (which is being held this Sunday).
Just to clarify, this is only for the rankings in the official results.
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RALehrer
Posts: 31
Country : United States | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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ksun48
Posts: 29
Country : Canada | ksun48 posted @ 2014-05-27 8:20 AM Wow, that was bad.
Puzzles I broke:
B2, D1, D3, E1 twice, H1, I2, J1 three times, J2, J3 twice, L1 (14 breaks, using logic? I must be dead)
Missed: B2, D3, H1, I2, K3, K2, L2 |
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Administrator
Country : India | auroux - 2014-05-26 11:12 AM
Hmmm, my first time ever having a time bonus :) I think someone mistakenly configured the scoring page so that solving 26 puzzles would give a time bonus, but solving more wouldn't :-) Apart from that, great puzzles!
Denis
Fixed. |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2014-05-27 9:23 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India | Hey everyone,
Solutions will be released soon after the last International participants finish the test.
On a related note, since I haven't yet explicitly stated details associating puzzles to authors, you all can go ahead and guess in replies here, if you want, for fun.
Hints: Me, James, Bram each contributed 3 of the 13 sections. Thomas/Grant contributed 3 together with Thomas writing the variants where applicable. Deb contributed 1 section. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1776
Country : India | The Indian Puzzle Championship is now officially over even for the International participants.
The Solutions booklet can be downloaded here . Congrats to uvo, EKBM and deu, the International Top 3. Ulrich was the only one to finish all 35 puzzles correctly, with 12 minutes to go.
I hope everyone enjoyed the puzzles. Congrats once again to the Official winners Amit, Rohan and Swaroop. I'll give you all a day to guess the authors and post my notes about puzzle selection, etc. tomorrow. In the meantime, please feel free to ask for hints on individual puzzles and also to give more feedback on the competition in general.
Thank you all for participating! |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | My guess for authors:
Thomas/Grant - C,D,F
Prasanna - I,G,E
Deb -A
Bram - B,L,K
James - J,M,H |
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