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Nikola
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Country : Serbia | Nikola posted @ 2014-09-28 12:34 PM NOT APPEARED! |
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Country : India |
Logic Masters India announces October Puzzle Test — Pento Parade
Dates : 11 th - 13 th Oct
Instruction Booklet & Submission : Link
Authors : Richard Stolk
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-03 8:05 PM Hi all,
As promised in the Instructions Booklet, here are links to some practise puzzles that were published earlier by me in the portal of LM Germany:
- Pentopia, also on Bram de Laat's (inventor of this type ) blog there are a lot of these fun puzzles;
- Pentomino in the box: 1, 2, 3, and in my previous LMI Puzzle test Dutch Treat
- Minesweeper Pentomino: Other shaped grid, Only 10 different pentos, standard (very hard), standard
- Pentomino Yajilin: Larger grid with all pento's to be placed,
- Touching Pentominos: first, second,
- Pentapa,
- Filled Loop: medium, hard, medium, hard,
- Sum Pentominos.
As always the case when writing a test, I have made a few puzzles more than necessary. The leftovers will be published in the portal of LM Germany in the coming days, following the schedule:
Sunday: Pentopia
Monday: Pentomino Yajilin
Tuesday: - (Sudoku Variants Series-day )
Wednesday: Pentomino Word Search
Thursday: Mini Pento Loops
Friday: Pentapa
By providing these practise puzzles, I hope everyone can have a decent preparation for the test, to enjoy it even more! : ) |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | In Pentomino in the Box:
It says 3 cells in each region of two different pentominos, but is it necessary that it has to be like 1 cell and 2 cell pair split. Can't it be 1+1+1 and two of them join to same pentomino ?? |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2014-10-04 6:20 AM According to WPC2013 Round 4 IB...
(Note: the two cells that belong to the same pentomino within a region do not have to share an edge). |
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Richard
Posts: 191
Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-04 9:26 AM Joo M.Y - 2014-10-04 6:20 AM
According to WPC2013 Round 4 IB...
(Note: the two cells that belong to the same pentomino within a region do not have to share an edge).
Completely correct. In the example you can find this already for the T-shape. I have placed the T-shape on purpose in this position. |
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swaroop2011
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Country : India | Richard - 2014-10-04 9:26 AM
Joo M.Y - 2014-10-04 6:20 AM
According to WPC2013 Round 4 IB...
(Note: the two cells that belong to the same pentomino within a region do not have to share an edge).
Completely correct. In the example you can find this already for the T-shape. I have placed the T-shape on purpose in this position.
ok thank you Richard and Joo. Got confused so wanted to clarify it. |
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muhorka
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Country : Slovakia | muhorka posted @ 2014-10-06 1:18 AM Richard - 2014-10-03 5:05 PM
- Pentomino in the box: 1, 2, 3, and in my previous LMI Puzzle test Dutch Treat
I like the most puzzle 1, in which the rules are quite different and until I read the real instructions (not that in IB ), it took me one night solving it without success ;- ) |
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-06 9:37 AM muhorka - 2014-10-06 1:18 AM
Richard - 2014-10-03 5:05 PM
- Pentomino in the box: 1, 2, 3, and in my previous LMI Puzzle test Dutch Treat
I like the most puzzle 1, in which the rules are quite different and until I read the real instructions (not that in IB ), it took me one night solving it without success ;- )
Hmm, that was the first puzzle of this type that I ever made. I forgot that the rules there are indeed slightly different. Maybe it's best not to look too much to this puzzle to avoid confusion. Apologies for that! |
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Richard Stolk @ LMD
| Richard Stolk @ LMD posted @ 2014-10-06 8:33 PM Logic Masters India hosts a puzzle contest every month. I had the honor to prepare the puzzles for the coming contest. It will be held from 11 till 13 October 2014. It will be called Pento Parade ; A set of different Pentomino variants. Some of the variants are published here in the portal earlier by me.
As always the case after making puzzles for a contest, I had a few unused puzzles and I would like to share them here in the portal. At the same time, I can make some extra advertisement for ... (0 mal gelöst ) Posted in |
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Richard Stolk @ LMD
| Richard Stolk @ LMD posted @ 2014-10-06 8:34 PM Logic Masters India hosts a puzzle contest every month. I had the honor to prepare the puzzles for the coming contest. It will be held from 11 till 13 October 2014. It will be called Pento Parade ; A set of different Pentomino variants. Some of the variants are published here in the portal earlier by me.
As always the case after making puzzles for a contest, I had a few unused puzzles and I would like to share them here in the portal. At the same time, I can make some extra advertisement for ... (0 mal gelöst ) Posted in |
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Richard Stolk @ LMD
| Richard Stolk @ LMD posted @ 2014-10-08 3:43 PM Logic Masters India hosts a puzzle contest every month. I had the honor to prepare the puzzles for the coming contest. It will be held from 11 till 13 October 2014. It will be called Pento Parade ; A set of different Pentomino variants. Some of the variants are published here in the portal earlier by me.
As always the case after making puzzles for a contest, I had a few unused puzzles and I would like to share them here in the portal. At the same time, I can make some extra advertisement for ... (0 mal gelöst ) Posted in |
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Joo M.Y
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Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2014-10-09 11:28 AM |
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Richard Stolk @ LMD
| Richard Stolk @ LMD posted @ 2014-10-10 1:57 PM Logic Masters India hosts a puzzle contest every month. I had the honor to prepare the puzzles for the coming contest. It will be held from 11 till 13 October 2014. It will be called Pento Parade ; A set of different Pentomino variants. Some of the variants are published here in the portal earlier by me.
As always the case after making puzzles for a contest, I had a few unused puzzles and I would like to share them here in the portal. At the same time, I can make some extra advertisement for ... (0 mal gelöst ) Posted in |
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Richard Stolk @ LMD
| Richard Stolk @ LMD posted @ 2014-10-10 3:45 PM Logic Masters India hosts a puzzle contest every month. I had the honor to prepare the puzzles for the coming contest. It will be held from 11 till 13 October 2014. It will be called Pento Parade ; A set of different Pentomino variants. Some of the variants are published here in the portal earlier by me.
As always the case after making puzzles for a contest, I had a few unused puzzles and I would like to share them here in the portal. At the same time, I can make some extra advertisement for ... (1 mal gelöst ) Posted in |
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mathcrazy
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Country : India | In Touching Pentominoes, should all Pentominoes be necessarily connected? Or can there be Pentominoes which are not linked at all? In the example given, all Pentominoes are connected through the corners. |
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-10 5:37 PM mathcrazy - 2014-10-10 5:34 PM
In Touching Pentominoes, should all Pentominoes be necessarily connected? Or can there be Pentominoes which are not linked at all? In the example given, all Pentominoes are connected through the corners.
Not all Pentos are necessarily connected; free floating pentos might occur. |
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mathcrazy
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Country : India | Thanks for clarifying : )
Richard - 2014-10-10 5:37 PM
mathcrazy - 2014-10-10 5:34 PM
In Touching Pentominoes, should all Pentominoes be necessarily connected? Or can there be Pentominoes which are not linked at all? In the example given, all Pentominoes are connected through the corners.
Not all Pentos are necessarily connected; free floating pentos might occur. |
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-10 10:22 PM Richard - 2014-10-03 8:05 PM
As always the case when writing a test, I have made a few puzzles more than necessary. The leftovers will be published in the portal of LM Germany in the coming days, following the schedule:
Sunday: Pentopia
Monday: Pentomino Yajilin
Tuesday: - (Sudoku Variants Series-day)
Wednesday: Pentomino Word Search
Thursday: Mini Pento Loops
Friday: Pentapa
By providing these practise puzzles, I hope everyone can have a decent preparation for the test, to enjoy it even more! :)
Meanwhile the last practise puzzle has been posted in the portal of LM Germany. You can find Pentapa here. I hope the practise puzzles have triggered you enough to participate!
I wish all participants good luck and a few fun hours. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-10-11 5:34 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? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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greenhorn
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Country : Slovakia | | 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? | A bit too few puzzles | | | 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I love monothematic contests and here I found many great puzzles. The best for me was the harder Pento In The Box even though I do not like this puzzle type. Thanks Richard! |
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chaotic_iak
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Country : Indonesia | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | 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 @ 2014-10-11 8:00 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? | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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carljohan
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Country : Sweden | I just tried the first puzzle of each type out of contest. Really liked these styles :) |
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rob
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Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2014-10-11 11:36 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Thanks, that was fun!
Points per time did vary quite a bit, but that's probably just me sucking at Sum Pentominos... Edited by rob 2014-10-11 11:38 PM
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-10-12 2:08 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? | 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? | Just right | | | 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Joo M.Y
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Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2014-10-12 9:56 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? | Just right | | | 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Puzlifouk
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Country : France | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | 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 @ 2014-10-12 5:49 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | 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
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Country : Japan | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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TiiT
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Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2014-10-12 7:40 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
It was a very nice test. I mean very very nice. Also I overally like pentomino puzzles, so I really enjoyed them. There was right amount of puzzles - I didn't expect to finish anyway, so - it's perfect. Actually I didn't practice too for it, so no big expectations. There was a small thing with the points distribution, but I take that as my personal opinion and skills - so, also it was nicely done. And there were some very enjoyable ones too. Big thanks. |
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rimodech
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Country : Serbia | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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tamz29
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Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2014-10-12 9:48 PM I can see a lot of work put in to make this happen.
Good to have the practise puzzles before the contest too, you're very productive!
Thanks, Richard. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-10-12 10:58 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Key component of this test being enjoyable was that reflections were always allowed. I hate checking for that. Thanks for the test! |
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anderson
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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? | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Lots of great puzzles. Thanks, Richard! |
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bubbler
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Country : South Korea | bubbler posted @ 2014-10-13 4:06 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I have been a big fan of pentominos since I met the pentomino puzzle at elementary school. Though I could not manage Sums and Loops in time, it was really fun solving those puzzles again - with lots and lots of new types of them! |
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Eisbaer
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Country : The Netherlands | Eisbaer posted @ 2014-10-13 5:29 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-10-13 5:34 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? | Too many hard puzzles | | | 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | 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 @ 2014-10-13 11:27 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | 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 @ 2014-10-14 3:05 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? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2014-10-14 5:40 AM Thanks Richard. That was fun. And I'm not even the last player to do the test (to my own surprise). |
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Administrator
Country : India | The score page does not handle partial points for Word Search (yet). We will be fixing that soon. |
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easonrevant
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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 medium difficult puzzles | | | 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 few puzzles | | | 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-14 2:46 PM Administrator - 2014-10-14 6:40 AM
The score page does not handle partial points for Word Search (yet). We will be fixing that soon.
Meanwhile this issue is fixed. |
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Richard
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Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2014-10-14 2:53 PM Pento Parade is over. About 170 participants is not bad with such a specific subject in all puzzles. Also, it was a quite innovative set with mainly puzzle types that are not broad available.
So: a big 'thank you!' from my side to all players for taking part!
Congratulations to the fastest players among you: EKBM, MellowMelon and uvo did a great job! My own expectation was that the winner should need between 90 and 95 minutes, so I was really surprised to see EKBM topping that expectation with almost 20 minutes. Incredible and well done! |
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Maksim
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Country : Belarus | Maksim posted @ 2014-10-17 8:14 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 the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Pento Parade — LMI October Puzzle Test — 11th - 13th October