About - Indian Puzzle Championship - 2016

Logic Masters India (LMI) is conducting the Indian Puzzle Championship (IPC) 2016 (tentatively) in July-2016. Unlike the last few years, the format is different, as the qualification for the IPC will begin in late August 2015.

There will be a series of eight online rounds (called Puzzle Ramayan, similar to last year's Sudoku Mahabharat for Sudokus), which act as a qualifier for the offline national finals. The Top-50 players from the online rounds will qualify for the finals. Provisions will be made for a deserving Indian performer not living in India to get on the National team. There will also be a system to reward newcomers & inexperienced solvers to preserve the essence of Sudoku Mahabharat and carry it forward to Puzzle Ramayan. This may include having separate criteria for the Ramayan winner and the IPC winner.

More details will be announced soon.

Details Including Schedule

Details are published here -
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2015-16pr.asp

As with Sudoku Mahabharat, this is mainly to put out the general format, schedule and idea of the event, we may iron out a few details like prizes, etc. a bit more soon.
We realize that September is pretty crowded, this is mainly because we need to keep a space for the World Championships in October.

Update - Wild Card

Following his impressive 19th place finish in the 24th World Puzzle Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria, Prasanna Seshadri gets a wildcard into the Indian A team for the 25th WPC in Slovakia, and won't be eligible for the Puzzle Ramayan leader-board and finals.

Update - Scoring system

After the first 3 rounds, we have noticed that it is very difficult to maintain a consistent difficulty level across rounds. This means, under the current scoring system, some rounds will become discards by default, which negates the discard advantages. So, we have decided to alter the scoring system to scale the scores in comparison to the best score for each round, starting at 100 and going lower. For the Puzzle Ramayan rankings, it will be the best Indian score among eligible players. For the International rankings it will be the best score in the round.

Venue and details for offline finals

Please check here for the venue, dates, participation fee, and other necessary details about the offline finals of Puzzle Ramayan & IPC 2016 here - http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2015-16sm-pr-finals.asp
Please note that the top 50 of PR can also participate in day one's Sudoku Mahabharat event.
An email will be sent to the qualifiers shortly with an invite letter containing the same details.
Feel free to post any queries you may have here.

Results of the Indian Puzzle Championship 2016

Results of Puzzle Ramayan 2016

PR Finals Content on Sale

The entire content of Puzzle Ramayan Finals is now available for sale as online PDF booklets for anyone interested. The pricing is Rs. 400 for Indian solvers and $ 9 for International solvers. All puzzles are authored by Deb Mohanty and me. Indians must transfer to the LMI account (details provided below) and Internationals can transfer via PayPal to prasanna16391@gmail.com since the LMI account isn't tied to PayPal yet. Either way, please drop me a mail (same id as the PayPal one) once the transfer is done with some reference details.

LMI account:
LOGIC MASTERS INDIA
Current Account
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The content that you will get includes:
* Round 1 - 8 Puzzles and Solutions. The types are Hitori, Kakuro, Dominos, Area Division, Horse Snake, Crazy Pavement, Linesweeper and Pentomino, one type each from the 8 different online Puzzle Ramayan rounds.
* Round 2 - 8 Puzzles and Solutions. The types are Capsules, Tomtom, Thermometer, Cave, Slitherlink Snake, Crazy Pavement, Yajilin and Crossnumber, one type each which didn't appear in the respective category of the 8 different online Puzzle Ramayan rounds.
* Round 3 - 40 Puzzles and Solutions. One puzzle each from all types (excluding Exploratory section) which appeared in the 8 different online Puzzle Ramayan rounds, mostly at easier difficulty and some in smaller sizes.
* Round 4 - 16 Puzzles and Solutions. This was a Casual Puzzles round with a lot of puzzle types which have simple rules and are common in Brain Teaser books and so on like Find the Difference, Word Search, Area Maze, etc.
* Round 5 - Domino Windows. This was a mechanical round involving placing Dominos, while considering colors and sums. The online PDF version of this will include a page having the tiles to cut, the rules and a page to place the tiles into.
* Puzzle Ramayan Top 5 Playoff Puzzles - Masyu, Kakuro, Star Battle, Crazy Pavement, Fence, Kropki, and Solutions.
* Indian Puzzle Championship Trophy Puzzles - Fence, Four Winds and Fillomino themed on 1, 2 and 3 respectively which were then designed on the trophies presented to the winners.
* Puzzle Gift - 8 8x8 grids Linked Cipher puzzle including the types Four Winds, Skyscrapers, Magnets, Fillomino, Classic Snake, Lakes, Linesweeper and Minesweeper, one each from the 8 online rounds, and Solution.

Our $ 6 patrons will be receiving this content over the next month or so.
We have a similar sale of Sudoku Mahabharat content. Please check out the details for that here - http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1013&...