The IB is available now.

The test will start on Friday at the same time, and will be extended by a day. Points table shall be shared on 3rd February.

The test will start at 0130 hrs IST on Feb 04.

The contest is going to be further delayed. We will post a note when it starts.

The test has started.

I cannot find the password; please post which URL or describes where the PW is located. Sorry to be "blind" but I can't find it. TU!

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?	Many puzzles were worth too much or too little

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?	Linked
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 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?	Linked
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 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?	Overlapping

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?	Disjoint
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 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?	Disjoint

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?	Overlapping

Just wanted to know when Episode 1 was held because I don't remember doing it. Thanks.

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?	Linked
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Hi. You can find details about Sudoku Mahabharat in the below link.

http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2016-17sm.asp

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?	Classic Sudokus
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 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?	Overlapping
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 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?	Overlapping
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth too much or too little

I would request the admin to extend the contest by a day.
Please consider my request otherwise I may not be able to participate

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?	Disjoint
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 distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many medium difficult puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Overlapping
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 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?	Linked
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 distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many medium difficult puzzles
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Linked

Overlapping and Disjoint variants were tough; Infact I started with those 9*9 variants and got trapped; Broke multiple times and missed the easier ones; Even forgot to enter the answers for three 6*6 variants; Overall a bad performance by me

Hello, online solving doesn't work properly on firefox, it's impossible to set the candidates. All works fine on chrome. (Ubuntu Linux 16.04, firefox 51.0.1)

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?	Linked
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 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?	No Even Neighbours
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 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?	Linked
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 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?	Disjoint

Disjoint 9x9 was harder than Overlapping one.

No display of START button or anything, only a black square saying some plugin is required. Can someone help please ??

Please use a desktop or laptop computer

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
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 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?	Overlapping
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 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?	Disjoint
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Coming to the customary note of thanks. :)

Congratulations to Tiit, Jakub O & Michael for taking the top 3 spots and also to Rohan, Kishore & Manjiri for topping the Indian rankings . From what I have been informed, there were 400 participants & 358 non zero scores, which is a record number of participants for LMI excluding the WPF Sudoku GPs and the puzzle marathon held at LMI. 38 people completed the set. Congratulations to all.

It had been more than a year since I have participated in a sudoku tournament or created any puzzle so when LMI asked me to author a set for SM, I readily agreed. But when I actually sat down to create, I realised how out of sync I was. Keeping the core target audience for SM in mind the set had to be easily solvable and I tried my best to keep all puzzles simple which would not require any advanced techniques to be used. All puzzles could be solved using Naked/Hidden singles/Pairs. Yet I consciously made an effort to see that the answers are not a dead giveaway.This could be one of the primary reasons that a few people found the puzzles tough.

I am thankful to LMI team for giving me the opportunity to create a set of sudokus after a long time for the second episode of Sudoku Mahabharat. I hope everyone enjoyed it. :)

Rishi