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starmusic
Posts: 4
Country : United States | I believe the Tripod puzzle in instructions booklet has multiple solutions.
I got the same region outlines and filled the 6 rows as follows: 132546/524631/346125/465312/251463/613254 |
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Country : India | Points Table
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Gabrieleud
Posts: 12
Country : ITALY | The tripod sudoku in the competition will have a single solution anyway.
Edited by Gabrieleud 2013-06-25 4:50 PM
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Karel Tesar
Posts: 28
Country : Czech Republic | Let me invite you to practice on Italian WPF Sudoku Grand Prix!
This week we are preparing for you these sudoku variants in our Daily League:
24.06.2013 - Jigsaw Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
25.06.2013 - Killer Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
26.06.2013 - Coast to Coast sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
27.06.2013 - The Big Bang Theory Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
28.06.2013 - 1011 Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
29.06.2013 - Kropki (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round )
30.06.2013 - Diagonal Sudoku
http://sudokucup.com/content/sudoku-variants |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2013-06-29 12:18 AM Does it have any reason, why it starts so late? usually it starts earlier.
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Ours brun
Posts: 148
Country : France | Hi,
I just noticed what seems to be a small mistake in the answer form: the tripod is announced to be using digits from 1 to 8 but the expected answer seems to be 9 digits long. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Ours brun - 2013-06-29 2:21 AM
Hi,
I just noticed what seems to be a small mistake in the answer form: the tripod is announced to be using digits from 1 to 8 but the expected answer seems to be 9 digits long. Fixed.
TiiT - 2013-06-29 12:18 AM
Does it have any reason, why it starts so late? usually it starts earlier.
Tiit I just realized that I made a mistake. Alberto wanted to start the contest at 12:00 AM Italian time. I assumed he wanted to start at 12:00 PM.
So the contest starts now. (2 hours earlier than LMI usually starts. ). There won't be any change in ending time. |
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Country : India | Online Solving not available for Tight Fit and Tripod sudoku
Link for online solving : http://logicmastersindia.com/2013/06S2/?online=1
As noted earlier contests, the flash online solving will only allow you to mark / unmark 1-9 on the grids. There is no feature to mark anything else.
Based on previous LMI tests, we think most serious players will solve on paper and not use the online solving interface. However, if you are one of those who plan to use online solving, you must practice first solving the examples using the online interface.
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Country : India | Bonus PointsBonus 4 points per minute (computed upto seconds) will be awarded to all players who submit all 24 sudokus correctly, with maximum 1 wrong submission. In case of wrong submission, the sudoku shouldn't be wrong by more than 4 digits.
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2013-06-29 2:01 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
The tripod had much more worth than the rest. At least for me. Too much guessing and trying to fit the borders and that takes some time if you are just sudoku solver. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-06-29 2:09 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too few pages / too small grids | |
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greenhorn
Posts: 164
Country : Slovakia | | 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 easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Thanks for a nice contest. I really liked most of the puzzles and appreciate that there were many totally different types. But the point distribution was not so good. I have solved the puzzle nr. 24 (55 pts ) six times due stupid mistakes, but it takes me still less than BBT sudoku (20 pts ) or Coast to Coast (35 pts ). Probably Three is a Crowd was the easiest variant of the whole contest. |
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Mahyar
Posts: 8
Country : Iran | Mahyar posted @ 2013-06-29 5:59 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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volkirik
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Country : Turkey | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Errabee
Posts: 5
Country : The Netherlands | Errabee posted @ 2013-06-29 8:25 PM Thanks a lot for a nice contest, although the puzzles were a bit too easy for my taste. I especially liked the design of the 1011 Sudoku, nicely done! |
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2013-06-29 10:00 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Nola
Posts: 18
Country : Germany | Nola posted @ 2013-06-29 11:51 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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 @ 2013-06-30 12:53 AM TiiT - 2013-06-29 2:01 PM
The tripod had much more worth than the rest. At least for me. Too much guessing and trying to fit the borders and that takes some time if you are just sudoku solver.
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests... 
Can someone tell me how to start the solving of this one???
Otherwise, thanks for the nice test.
Fred
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auroux
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Country : France | auroux posted @ 2013-06-30 1:10 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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greenhorn
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Country : Slovakia | Fred76 - 2013-06-30 12:53 AM
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests...
Fred
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2013-06-30 1:18 AM greenhorn - 2013-06-30 1:12 AM
Fred76 - 2013-06-30 12:53 AM
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests...
Fred
Why? I was just thinking about brand new Tripod sudoku tournament right here
without me... |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2013-06-30 3:55 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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john_reid
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Country : United States | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I would be interested to hear others' opinions on the points distribution on this test. I'm a pretty consistent competitor but certainly not fast enough to have a chance to get through more than about half of the puzzles on most tests within the time limit, so my gameplan is usually to use the points value of puzzles as a guide to decide which ones to try. Most of the time the points offered are pretty accurate - more points will generally mean a puzzle that takes me more time to complete, as it should be. But with this test I really felt like the points were often backwards. I spent a LONG time tackling several of the earlier puzzles that were 20 points or less, only to find after time was up that MANY of the puzzles worth a lot of points were FAR easier - including the 55 pointer which had no logical roadblocks along the solve at all! I know that comments like that are subjective, so I'd like to hear what other solvers' experiences were. Thanks to the constructors for the puzzles, though, they were fun... I was just a little disappointed this time with the points layout. |
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yoshimasa
Posts: 2
Country : Japan | Hi,
I had fun this great test, but found a bug.
In "toroidal", I couldn't move my cursor at point (7, 3 ) in online sudoku grid. 
Could you confirm?
yoshimasa |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1780
Country : India | Ah I see that all the GP results of a player + a best 6 column has been added to the results. Excellent additions  |
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Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2013-06-30 11:09 AM
Ah I see that all the GP results of a player + a best 6 column has been added to the results. Excellent additions Please note that, 1. It is not official. The official list will be published at WPF.
2. It is available only for top players, not for all.
3. Players missing in GP8 are also missing in this list. So it does not give you a correct picture. You have to compare this with results after GP7 |
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debmohanty
Country : India | yoshimasa - 2013-06-30 10:15 AM
Hi,
I had fun this great test, but found a bug.
In "toroidal", I couldn't move my cursor at point (7, 3 ) in online sudoku grid.
Could you confirm?
yoshimasa I think it was R1C7 in toroidal. Fixed now. |
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davep
Posts: 43
Country : United States | davep posted @ 2013-06-30 11:27 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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kishy72
Posts: 417
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2013-06-30 11:42 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? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Italian round in short words : simple and elegant.A perfect way to cap off the World sudoku Grand Prix.Thnks for the great grids authors! Out of the ones i solved my personal favourites were Classic sudoku 11 , 10-11 Sudoku .Jigsaw .I found clean logic in the sudokus that i solved. Classic sudoku 11 had what i would consider my find of the tourney.With over 12 mins spent on the stuck point ,i was getting increasingly anxious and was about to jump to the next grid when out of the blue i spotted the X-wing of 1.After completing the same it gave me a sense of satisfaction like nothing else.It has been a long time since i spotted an X - wing in a competetion scenario.If my memory is good i haven't seen X-wings in the Beginners' contests or in any recent monthly tests.I am doubtful whether that sudoku can be continued without the X-wing deduction.I have learnt that it is important to change the mode of thinking if a certain way does not work out. 10-11 sudoku was fun too.I am particularly fond of the way in which the "no dashes then no 10 or 11 sum" rule worked out.It was equally important in the solve just as the dashes played their part. Jigsaw was perfectly fine and had for its share some nice tricks .Now i hope to solve the incomplete ones later. On a different note I am surprised that each Grand prix round has thrown out a different winner so far .I m eager to see if the trend continues in this test too though there is still a chance for some of the toppers from the previous rounds to top again. Overall i had great fun during the test and this Italian round is one of my most favourite rounds in the grand prix.Thnks to the authors once again. I can safely state that the inaugural year of the Grand prix has been a grand success!! |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-06-30 1:13 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Richard
Posts: 191
Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2013-06-30 1:39 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Especially the designs of the 1011 and kropki were brilliant! I agree with previous comments about points distribution, the 55-pointer was not hard, just a lot of work where others with less points took much more time. |
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wgryciuk
Posts: 24
Country : Poland | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Junta
Posts: 3
Country : ITALY | Junta posted @ 2013-06-30 2:32 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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yoshimasa
Posts: 2
Country : Japan | debmohanty - 2013-06-30 2:16 PM
yoshimasa - 2013-06-30 10:15 AM
Hi,
I had fun this great test, but found a bug.
In "toroidal", I couldn't move my cursor at point (7, 3 ) in online sudoku grid.
Could you confirm?
yoshimasa I think it was R1C7 in toroidal. Fixed now.
Sorry my typo, and that was right. Thanks for your service |
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Gabrieleud
Posts: 12
Country : ITALY | john_reid - 2013-06-30 8:28 AM
[...] I spent a LONG time tackling several of the earlier puzzles that were 20 points or less, only to find after time was up that MANY of the puzzles worth a lot of points were FAR easier - including the 55 pointer which had no logical roadblocks along the solve at all! I know that comments like that are subjective, so I'd like to hear what other solvers' experiences were. Thanks to the constructors for the puzzles, though, they were fun... I was just a little disappointed this time with the points layout.
I agree with you. The 55 pointer was not *that* hard, until you properly understand how to determinate the 9 wrong numbers on each side. With that done, it was a puzzle that still required a bit of work where other puzzles didn't. Hence, we decided to raise the value, in compensation of the time you might have used to solve this one. Some of the classic sudoku were harder than they were worth, in my mind, but really they had one or two hard points to cross over. We decided for lower points at these classic because they're basically grounded on a well-known logic, with no tricks, or things-to-know-before. |
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joshuazucker
Posts: 31
Country : United States | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too few pages / too small grids | |
I agree with the comments that the last 55 pointer was a lot easier than some of the others worth much less -- on the other hand, it was pretty clear from the practice puzzles that this was likely to be the case, once you see how to use the rules of this variant things go pretty quickly. I particularly enjoyed the coded killer and the 1011. |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2013-06-30 6:10 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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detuned
Posts: 152
Country : United Kingdom | detuned posted @ 2013-06-30 6:26 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | I have a different complaint | |
Great test! one tiny tiny complaint was the formatting of the letter killer, where the cages were too heavy and the major gridlines too faint. Well done to the organisers : ) |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-06-30 7:53 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Yuhei Kusui
Posts: 42
Country : Japan | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I couldn't find a clear logical way to solve Tripod... |
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | | 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Thank you very much for the lovely test. |
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SKnight
Posts: 25
Country : United States | SKnight posted @ 2013-06-30 9:11 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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wicktroll
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Country : Hungary | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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sanket
Posts: 17
Country : India | sanket posted @ 2013-06-30 10:13 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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UllaE
Posts: 9
Country : Finland | UllaE posted @ 2013-06-30 11:09 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 easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Personally, I expect that I cannot solve the hardest (most points ) puzzle in the set. This time though, Three is a Crowd was "easy" in that perspective, so thus I would say that the whole set was easier than usually. On the other hand, I spent almost equal amount of time in Kropki. Nevertheless, there seems to be enough puzzles to compensate the "easiness" so that usual amount of top solvers finishes all of them. And big thanks to all of the Sudoku GP organizers!!! It was great fun! |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2013-06-30 11:34 PM Had the same experience as others regarding point distribution. There's a general expectation that point distribution scales with expected solving time in some way (often linearly, at least monotonously?). I think it's fine to deviate from that, but maybe it would be worth announcing?
Also stumped by the tripod, would appreciate some hints for the break-in. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-06-30 11:54 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 easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Random point distribution made this contest a bit inequitable and unpredictable. |
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lenzo
Posts: 22
Country : ITALY | lenzo posted @ 2013-07-01 2:43 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-07-01 3:55 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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mahoned_91770
Posts: 6
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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Eykir
Posts: 11
Country : United States | Eykir posted @ 2013-07-01 4:43 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Realshaggy
Posts: 69
Country : Germany | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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riccared
Posts: 7
Country : ITALY | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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 @ 2013-07-01 6:18 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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starmusic
Posts: 4
Country : United States | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Nice conclusion to the series. Especially enjoyed the layout and logic paths in 1011. I enjoy the 3s a crowd type though was a little disappointed the solve was straightforward and there wasn't higher order sudoku logic needed. Thank you to the puzzle writers! |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-07-01 7:53 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Desert tornado
Posts: 1
| Hw do i get the password for opening the docunment for the competition |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1780
Country : India | Desert tornado - 2013-07-01 8:01 PM
Hw do i get the password for opening the docunment for the competition
Login on the Submission page. Click "Start Sudoku Grand Prix" and password will appear, along with a timer counting down from 120 minutes.
Also check this page for more details. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-07-01 9:10 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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ladyleatherneck
Posts: 4
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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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B. Thananon
Posts: 12
Country : Thailand | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Average | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Mihalich
Posts: 26
Country : Ukraine | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Black Tiger
Posts: 11
Country : Iran | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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jhrdina
Posts: 8
Country : Czech Republic | jhrdina posted @ 2013-07-02 3:35 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
The Tripod seemed very hard to me (especially for 20 points ). I just could not find the starting point : ( |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2013-07-02 4:57 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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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Bram28
Posts: 35
Country : The Netherlands | Bram28 posted @ 2013-07-02 7:34 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Administrator
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Administrator
Country : India | Scores are frozen now - Link : http://logicmastersindia.com/2013/06S2/score.asp
Congratulations Ulrich for the top position, so 8 different winners in each of the GPs.
jhrdina - 2013-07-02 3:35 AM
The Tripod seemed very hard to me (especially for 20 points). I just could not find the starting point :( Only 8 players have solved it successfully, though it is only a 20-pointer. So certainly something is wrong.
Note, all claims were rejected except when typos involving given clues were involved and 2 other exceptional cases. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Note : Although the GP best of 6 points seems accurate, it is not official. The official ranks will be available in WPF site. |
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Karel Tesar
Posts: 28
Country : Czech Republic | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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f4han
Posts: 7
Country : Malaysia | f4han posted @ 2013-07-02 11:43 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
The authors may have their own good reason for distributing the scores like that especially for tripod. This round is truly a satisfying sudoku competition for me.. :party: Edited by f4han 2013-07-02 11:50 AM
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2013-07-02 7:10 PM Is that correct link & correct file to solutions booklet? Please check it. |
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standupcanada
Posts: 11
Country : Canada | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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 @ 2013-07-03 9:24 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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misko
Posts: 11
Country : Germany | misko posted @ 2013-07-03 11:41 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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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 | Stefano has posted a walkthrough of Tripod Sudoku here
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1780
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? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Just realized I hadn't given feedback for this one with all the IPC related preparations. This was a really nice test. I think most negative feedback will be from the folks who tried the Tripod. I'm one of them. I needed to be told the logic by the author after I was done, and I still felt that there is no way its worth 20 points. The only negative in this test in general was the points distribution, but that can happen sometimes. Otherwise, perfect mix, something for everyone, and I had a really good time. Thanks to the authors. |
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Iris
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Country : ITALY | Iris posted @ 2013-07-11 6:49 PM Hi all, I'm the author of the tripod. I'm very sorry that most of people found a problem in it... Stefano explained exactly the way it was supposed to be solved in the link in deb's post.
The key was to figure how to place the number four in each area, and in particular the four in r6c5.
It wasn't suppose to be a easy puzzle, and the low points were a mistake. |
WPF Sudoku Grand Prix — Italian Round — 29th June - 1st July 2013