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Country : India | A lookback at past winners of SM contests with Irregular variations:
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Country : India | The test has started. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-06-01 12:17 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? | Row Sum-Extra Region Sudoku | | | 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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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-06-01 9:56 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 | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
In online solving grids, the rule for outside-skyscraper was incorrect so it made me super-confused : ( |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2018-06-02 2:06 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? | Toroidal Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
It was tough and very challenging. |
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bob
Posts: 59
Country : United States | bob posted @ 2018-06-02 8:34 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? | Outside-Skyscraper Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I really enjoy sudoku variants and especially liked the hybrid variants with combined rules. More frequently I jump into the variants rather than doing the plain vanilla sudoke. I wish I I were fast enough to attempt them all Nice solving paths when I was able to find them. Irregular Sudoke 2 (9 x 9 ) was a very slow slog for me. Took way too much time and I suspect I missed some trick . Overall very interesting and fun puzzles I will enjoy on my own time. |
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aashay
Posts: 46
Country : India | aashay posted @ 2018-06-02 12:31 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
My worst performance in SM in a very long time. Struggled a lot with the variants, just couldn't proceed. A forgettable performace. The sudokus were of top notch quality though. |
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3strikerz
Posts: 8
Country : South Korea | | 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
Classic 3 and 5 is definitely not worth 5 and 3 respectively; they deserve more. Classic 6 is also probably worth less than 7. Probably shouldn't have wasted time trying to solve 4 with no avail. |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2018-06-02 4:23 PM Hi
I also would like to point out that the sudoku booklet consists 9 pages, not 8, like it says on the competition page!
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Hemant Kr Malani
Posts: 65
Country : India | | 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | 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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Kumaresan R
Posts: 27
Country : India | | 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? | Toroidal Sudoku | | | 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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Gyuszi13
Posts: 17
Country : Hungary | | 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? | Scattered Sudoku | | | 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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MrLiang
Posts: 44
Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2018-06-03 1:59 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | 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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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2018-06-03 12:19 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Excellent test.Hybrids round was executed really well and I enjoyed this new round in SM.Just needed a few more seconds to submit the solution to the last classic that I had but satisfied with the overall show given the lazy start I had in Row Sum-ER. My favourites are One Diagonal-Disjoint (13 ),Toroidal (10 ) and Outside Skyscraper (8 ) in that order. Well done Ashish ! The grids were excellent design-wise as well as aesthetically and were tremendously fun to solve. |
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gaurav.kjain
Posts: 52
Country : India | | 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
This is one of the round which is best in construction quality and layouts. My score may not reflect the feedback, but I feel this round should be solvable within the time limit. Ashish has done extremely nice job with his signature theme and creativity. Amazing....sudokus and I enjoyed solving each one of them. |
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pranavmanu
Posts: 55
Country : India | | 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? | Classic Sudoku | |
A terrible round to cap off what has in my opinion, been the worst SM in history. The target distribution of difficulty is nowhere close to being achieved.At every point,I faced a stumbling block,which is something i have never experienced before in an SM round,and which i dont expect to experience as well Even a GP round seems to be more approachable than these tests,which is appalling. Apart from all this,Disappointed with my own showing as well. This is the first time ,I have wanted to stop solving and quit the test after just 45 mins. I had to force myself to regain focus and complete the test. Really sorry to say,Ashish,but that was my experience. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | | 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? | Toroidal Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Wonderful Set of Puzzles. Well thought theme throughout the round. I can imagine the efforts put into designing every sudoku and entire round. Well done. I didn't expect it will go so well for me. Although puzzles were hard, I do like Irregular sudoku. At the same time, I believe that, fixing the theme restricts the difficuilty level for the puzzle sometimes, so that might be the case that it turned out to be so many hard puzzles. Enjoyed a lot. Thanks Ashish and LMI. |
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RameshLMI
Posts: 51
Country : India | | 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? | Toroidal Sudoku | | | 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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shera90
Posts: 71
Country : India | shera90 posted @ 2018-06-04 5:26 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? | Scattered Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
It was a really nice round. In my opinion it was the best one this year. For me the best sudoku was the scattered 9x9 and for 6x6 it was toroidal. I didnt expect to solve this much considering lack of practice for quite some time. first time i didn't get stuck in syscraper 9x9. Even though it was mixed with outside, it still is the variant i fear the most. The others were really amqzing too like row sum extra region 6x6 and the classic 5. I think it deserved few more points. And also for one diagonal - disjoint 9x9 should have been around 10 and for row sum-extra region it should have been 13 Lastly the placing of numbers being almost the same in all 9x9 variants was excellent. |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2018-06-04 8:02 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? | Toroidal Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
The best SM round of the year by far. Wonderful puzzles Ashish! Thanks a lot. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-06-05 3:22 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? | Irregular Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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geronimo92
Posts: 8
Country : France | | 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-06-05 12:14 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? | Row Sum-Extra Region Sudoku | | | 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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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-06-05 7:04 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? | Irregular Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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tamz29
Posts: 225
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2018-06-06 12:10 AM Nice sudokus Ashish!
Although, I think that by preserving the theme, some puzzles turn out to be a tad too difficult.
The hybrids were very creative and made good use of the two rules.
In general, a nice test :) |
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ViP
Posts: 4
Country : Cuba | ViP posted @ 2018-06-06 2:14 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I like hybrid variations although I am slow to solve it. About Disjoint variation rules: No digit can appear in the same position in different x boxes. I always have known this variation as Sudoku DG (Disjoint Groups ), and rule is described as: cells at same relative position in regions form another additional region. Essentially, is the same concept but perhaps I think is more understandable. In this case, 6x6 sudoku have 6 regular regions, plus 6 disjoint and a diagonal, total 13 regions. And 9x9 have 9 regular regions, 9 disjoint and 1 diagonal , total 19 regions. So many restrictions ! I think that Ashish did a good work with this set of sudokus. Thanks Ashish. |
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Country : India | Congratulations to Tiit Vunk, Tantan Dai and Kota Morinishifor taking the top 3 places.
Among Indian participants, Congratulations to Rishi Puri, Rohan Rao and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places.
Ondrej Motlicek (Czech Republic)was the first to start the test while Fernando Almazán (Spain) was the last person to start the test. The median score of the test was 41.
15 participants completed the set within the allotted time. Special mention for Sinchai Rungsangrattanakul (Thailand) and Wang Weifan (China) who got to 100 with just 3 and 9 seconds remaining respectively.
Thanks Ashish Kumar for the puzzles!
Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page. |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | | 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? | One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
The best and fitting final round of SM this year. The theme was beautifully executed and as has been mentioned by others, might have impacted the difficulty levels at times. Beautifully done Ashish. |
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ashaash11ash
Posts: 55
Country : India | Congratulations to Tiit Vunk, Tantan Dai and Kota Morinishi for taking the top 3 places.
Among Indian participants, Congratulations to Rishi Puri, Rohan Rao and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places.
Thanks a lot to Rakesh for helping me out to make this set a successful one.
This was a hard set of SM but many of them noticed that it was due to the theme that i had kept all over the set. All the 9x9 variants had same placement of givens. some of the sudokus were more tougher than the one in the set and I had to tweak it many a times to make it unique and approachable. Irregulars weren't being unique due to the theme and tweaking that also did much of the effort.
Thanks to all who gave this contest and enjoyed the puzzles. |
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huisouvik
Posts: 4
Country : India | | 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? | Classic Sudoku | | | 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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DrNick
Posts: 1
Country : Australia | DrNick posted @ 2018-06-18 8:46 AM Hi,
Just wondering if you have the password to the SM irregular/hybrids, as it seems there is something wrong with the link to it.
Cheers, Nick |
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loukas435
Posts: 1
Country : Greece | I have the same problem. I can't find the password. If anyone has it, send me a message please. |
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shera90
Posts: 71
Country : India | shera90 posted @ 2018-06-19 9:06 PM DrNick - 2018-06-18 8:46 AM
Hi,
Just wondering if you have the password to the SM irregular/hybrids, as it seems there is something wrong with the link to it.
Cheers, Nick
the password is TheLastRoundIRRHYB |
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shera90
Posts: 71
Country : India | shera90 posted @ 2018-06-19 9:06 PM loukas435 - 2018-06-19 6:54 PM
I have the same problem. I can't find the password. If anyone has it, send me a message please.
the password is TheLastRoundIRRHYB |
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jainpanki
Posts: 1
Country : India | There is some problem with the Link. Admin, please fix the link. |
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Administrator
Country : India | jainpanki - 2018-06-20 10:21 AM
There is some problem with the Link. Admin, please fix the link.
This should be fixed now. |
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