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sliverbrain
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Yajendra
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Country : India | I had heard that Times Sudoku will be sometimes around July
Edited by Yajendra 2015-06-06 12:24 PM
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sliverbrain
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Country : India | But I am talking about "ISC" not "TSC". |
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vopani
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Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-06-06 11:15 PM Yajendra - 2015-06-06 12:24 PM
I had heard that Times Sudoku will be sometimes around July
Heard from where? |
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-10 12:34 AM Hi All , I am checking this website from a week ago but just register today. I love playing Sudoku very much. As I get to know that Indian Sudoku Championship 2015 is on 28 Jun its quite a bad news for me,since the champion players who are playing from 5 years or more the time frame for them is very much but players like me who only played Classic Sudoku's before is very short.As I try some test from monthy test section I get best ranked in Unlucky 13 test which is 6 in India with time 45:02 and others test my rank is very bad because of new sudoku variants which I have never seen before.
So my request to LMI team is that can ISC 2015 date be shifted if possible to 10 july or later.
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Yajendra
Posts: 18
Country : India | Is this online or offline tournament? |
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sanket.saxena
Posts: 48
Country : India | Any update on IPC 2015? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | sanket.saxena - 2015-06-10 10:41 AM
Any update on IPC 2015?
As of now the date hasn't been set. Depends on a few other things. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | doku - 2015-06-10 12:34 AM
Hi All , I am checking this website from a week ago but just register today. I love playing Sudoku very much. As I get to know that Indian Sudoku Championship 2015 is on 28 Jun its quite a bad news for me,since the champion players who are playing from 5 years or more the time frame for them is very much but players like me who only played Classic Sudoku's before is very short.As I try some test from monthy test section I get best ranked in Unlucky 13 test which is 6 in India with time 45:02 and others test my rank is very bad because of new sudoku variants which I have never seen before.
So my request to LMI team is that can ISC 2015 date be shifted if possible to 10 july or later.
An entire National Championship cannot be shifted because one person is new to variants. Imagine if someone joins LMI on 9th July. Should it then be shifted to 10th August? The best way to look at it is, this will be your first National Championship, so go in with minimal expectations and use it as a learning experience. The National Championships are held annually, so if this year doesn't go that well you have an entire year's time to get better for the next one. I encourage you to participate regularly and try to improve within the year rather than worrying about the top players from the start - its how I went about it when I started. |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Any update on date of Mumbai Rounds please??? |
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-11 6:38 PM rajgupta83 - 2015-06-11 5:01 PM
Any update on date of Mumbai Rounds please???
Hi. This is an online event. You can take part from your home. I guess you are talking about Times Sudoku Championship. If yes, there is no announcement regarding TSC as of now. You can follow the forum if any announcement in this regard is made. |
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akash.doulani
Posts: 157
Country : India | When will the instruction booklet be published? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | akash.doulani - 2015-06-14 12:27 PM
When will the instruction booklet be published? We are running little behind the schedule. Hope to publish the IB sometime towards end of the week. |
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shera90
Posts: 71
Country : India | shera90 posted @ 2015-06-15 1:27 PM there was sudoku mahabharat and now isc is going to happen and TSC is also to be organised
how many people will be selected to represent india for WSC and from which of the 3 contests ? |
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amitsowani
Posts: 349
Country : India | Sudoku Mahabharat has no bearing on the selection of the Indian team.
The team will be selected on the basis of the ISC. But do note that those selected from the ISC will not be sponsored.
TSC will be an independent event from which four participants will be sponsored for the WSC. These four participants will include 2 experienced participants and 2 new-comers.
Experienced participants are defined as the participants who have previously participated in a WSC. |
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mjaipal
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Country : India | mjaipal posted @ 2015-06-15 7:16 PM Hi Amit,
What is this 2+2 rule. Shouldn't the best 4 represent India at the WSC & improve our chances of a top-3 finish this year? |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | mjaipal - 2015-06-15 7:16 PM
Hi Amit,
What is this 2+2 rule. Shouldn't the best 4 represent India at the WSC & improve our chances of a top-3 finish this year?
The 2+2 rule is for sponsorship. While LMI is in control of A-team selection (as Amit has said, the Indian team will be from ISC ), Times as a sponsor will (and in my opinion, should ) have a say in who they sponsor. So, the best 4 will be asked to represent India. Its just that that's not necessarily the sponsored team. |
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mjaipal
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Country : India | mjaipal posted @ 2015-06-16 1:22 PM So, is the 2+2 rule an idea put forward by TOI?
From what I understand, the 4 best finishers in ISC will be India A team.
TOI will decide (based on TSC results) who they want to sponsor.
The common set of players could be 0,1,2,3,4 (theoretically). |
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zubair5352
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-06-16 9:15 PM zubair5352 - 2015-06-16 8:52 PM
i m here first time, i want to participate but how i don't know.
Keep following this thread on the forum.The instruction booklet (IB )for the event is not yet published.Once you have a look at that,you will have a better idea.
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Indian Sudoku Championship - 2015 - Instructions Booklet published
Instructions booklet published. It does not have the solutions right now, will be added soon. Points table will be published day before ISC starts.
Link : http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/ISC/
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purifire
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Country : India | Wow! This sure is a lengthy one.... :) |
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akash.doulani
Posts: 157
Country : India | In true/lie Sudoku what are the options for 9? Is it 891 or 89? Similarly for 1 is it 12 or 912? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | purifire - 2015-06-17 6:12 PM
Wow! This sure is a lengthy one.... :) Well, the number of sudokus exactly match with last year's.
akash.doulani - 2015-06-17 6:34 PM
In true/lie Sudoku what are the options for 9? Is it 891 or 89? Similarly for 1 is it 12 or 912? 9=>89, 1=>12
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sanket.saxena
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Country : India | Puzzles are really nice ....
But points are not indicated for individual sudokus |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | sanket.saxena - 2015-06-17 8:48 PM
Puzzles are really nice ....
But points are not indicated for individual sudokus
Its written on page 3 that points will be released later. |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | In true or lie sudoku, r6c5, r7c4 must be 9 because of 8 at r8c5. Then r2c6 must be 9. r1c8 must be 8 because of 9 at r8c8. Then r2c9 must be 7 and r3c8 must be 5. Then I am not finding a place for 5 in box 6.
Where I went wrong. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | devarajand - 2015-06-18 5:49 AM
In true or lie sudoku, r6c5, r7c4 must be 9 because of 8 at r8c5. Then r2c6 must be 9. r1c8 must be 8 because of 9 at r8c8. Then r2c9 must be 7 and r3c8 must be 5. Then I am not finding a place for 5 in box 6.
Where I went wrong. The clue at R2C9 should be 7. Fixed the IB. |
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puneet87
Posts: 33
Country : India | Hi,
Any site where i can find more examples of Deficit-Surplus and Search 9 sudokus for practice? Thanks. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | puneet87 - 2015-06-18 9:14 AM
Hi,
Any site where i can find more examples of Deficit-Surplus and Search 9 sudokus for practice? Thanks.
Search 9 - Classics Vs Innovatives, ISC2014
Deficit-Surplus - Sudoku 8X8
You should be able to get few more examples on different blogs if you are willing to Google.
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puneet87
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Country : India | Thanks Deb. |
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Country : India | Question in email about Triomino Sudoku
All shapes need to be used?
No restriction on number of triminoes?
Triminoes can touch diagonally?
All shapes may not be used.
No restrictions on number of Triominoes.
They can touch diagonally |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | m trying to understand Search 9, can anyone please explain in quick n short with eg...plss....Rest all m done with it.. |
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amitsowani
Posts: 349
Country : India | Question in email about Triomino Sudoku
No restriction on number of triminoes?
From the first rule you can figure out that there will be exactly 9 triominoes. |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-06-18 5:13 PM rajgupta83 - 2015-06-18 2:20 PM
m trying to understand Search 9, can anyone please explain in quick n short with eg...plss....Rest all m done with it..
As per rules if 9 is next to arrow cell with arrow pointing towards 9 then arrow cell will contain 1. If arrow cell is 2 cells apart from 9 in the direction of arrow then it will contain 2 and so on.
Below link contains the solution of the one of Search 9 Sudoku which will help you understand the rules clearly.
http://www.funwithpuzzles.com/2010/05/arrow-sudokuassigned-sums-as1... |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Many thanks!!!!  |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Anybody knows any app on SUdoku, for Android Phones.....Not classic sudokus but all other variations sudoku....
I hv played classic too many...but want Irregular, Diagonal , Arrow, Search, Oddeven, etc.....pls comment |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | rajgupta83 - 2015-06-21 10:45 AM
Anybody knows any app on SUdoku, for Android Phones.....Not classic sudokus but all other variations sudoku....
I hv played classic too many...but want Irregular, Diagonal , Arrow, Search, Oddeven, etc.....pls comment
Not that I know of. Why not just print out the many that are on this and other sites? It'll help you more to solve on paper anyway since most Championships have only on-paper solving.
Edit: Just remembered Rishi released an app recently. I'll allow him to post details. |
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purifire
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purifire
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Country : India | rajgupta83 - 2015-06-21 10:45 AM
Anybody knows any app on SUdoku, for Android Phones.....Not classic sudokus but all other variations sudoku....
I hv played classic too many...but want Irregular, Diagonal , Arrow, Search, Oddeven, etc.....pls comment
Though I have given the link to the app for android, my personal suggestion is to practice on paper rather than on mobile devices. During ISC you will be mostly solving on paper and better to be prepared for that.
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Yes Prasanna and Rishi....thanx a tonne....
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-22 6:44 PM can I submit some sudoku's online & some offline, for eg. I submit 4 classic online then some other variants online and some offline
and about 23-odd even view sudoku of IB which i'm unable to solve a single digit so any help is appreciated. |
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-22 6:50 PM Its good if advanced players can give some tips n tricks for cracking some of the unknown and hard variants like odd even view,triomino sudoku and deficit- surplus sudoku etc. |
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purifire
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Country : India | doku - 2015-06-22 6:44 PM
can I submit some sudoku's online & some offline, for eg. I submit 4 classic online then some other variants online and some offline
and about 23-odd even view sudoku of IB which i'm unable to solve a single digit so any help is appreciated.
Look at the clues on the left side. Since they are in pairs, the first digit in C1 has to be one amongst the clues. Hence look at digits that occur only once in the clues and you can safely assume that digit will be the first digit visible in its corresponding row. You can proceed from there : )
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purifire
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Country : India | doku - 2015-06-22 6:50 PM
Its good if advanced players can give some tips n tricks for cracking some of the unknown and hard variants like odd even view,triomino sudoku and deficit- surplus sudoku etc.
For Triomino, begin solving for the digits 1 to 6 like a classic sudoku. Once you can proceed no further then look how the black cells play a role and you will be able to proceed.
For Deficit-Surplus, ignore the shapes to begin with and concentrate only rows and columns. Since all digits from 1 to 8 have to be in any given row or column, that would be the best start.
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | doku - 2015-06-22 6:44 PM
can I submit some sudoku's online & some offline, for eg. I submit 4 classic online then some other variants online and some offline.
Typically, this is fine, yes. |
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-23 2:19 PM Thanks for the Help.
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-23 2:20 PM Where I can find few more examples of Filler Sudoku & Shapes Sudoku.
I googled but not find any useful information. |
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prasanna16391
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bhavikk
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Country : India | bhavikk posted @ 2015-06-24 12:25 AM Can we have fastest time for the each variant of Sudoku in IB. |
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Country : India | Demo Page You can familiarize yourself with the submission system for both paper mode and online mode on this link
http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/ISC_Demo/?online=1
If you are going to participate for the first time, we strongly advise you to visit the demo page and understand how it is working.
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rajgupta83
Country : India | All set.....Sunday :) |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | bhavikk - 2015-06-24 12:25 AM
Can we have fastest time for the each variant of Sudoku in IB.
This isn't really something that's doable. Any variant can be made very easy or very difficult, so the fastest time is too dynamic to be a fact that is useful for anyone to determine the difficulty. I'd suggest to just wait for the Points Table to be published in the next version of the Instruction Booklet, this typically gives an idea of relative difficulty of all the Sudokus that will appear. |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Wer i am wrong please reply.....i hv tried submitting answers, i know answers are incorrect but it should be allowed to be posted
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | rajgupta83 - 2015-06-24 4:04 PM
Wer i am wrong please reply.....i hv tried submitting answers, i know answers are incorrect but it should be allowed to be posted
They are posted, since the message shown is '2 submitted, 2 incorrect'. The submissions are saved in the database as incorrect ones, and if you submit correctly, you will receive points along with the penalty as described in the Instructions booklet. |
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vopani
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Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-06-24 9:06 PM |
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akash.doulani
Posts: 157
Country : India | When will the points table be published? |
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-06-25 1:30 PM akash.doulani - 2015-06-25 10:25 AM
When will the points table be published?
Administrator - 2015-06-17 4:15 PM
Indian Sudoku Championship - 2015 - Instructions Booklet published
Instructions booklet published. It does not have the solutions right now, will be added soon. Points table will be published day before ISC starts.
Link : http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/ISC/
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gerbera
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| gerbera posted @ 2015-06-25 2:33 PM How do I register as a new user.Please help.
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-06-25 8:00 PM gerbera - 2015-06-25 2:38 PM
gerbera - 2015-06-25 2:33 PM
How do I register as a new user.Please help. My email is preetiraval@gmail.com and the program says the id already exists in the system. how do i register with the same id?
Thanks Preeti
Welcome to LMI
If you are able to post here, it mean you are already registered  . You are registered with id gerbera which you can use it for participating in the LMI contests.
Try to use demo page and get familiar with the interface of LMI. |
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gerbera
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| gerbera posted @ 2015-06-25 9:06 PM I am logging with my id & password but unable to login. It says "invalid userid or password". How do i retrieve the password so that I can log in? |
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gerbera
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| gerbera posted @ 2015-06-26 9:51 AM This will be my first comp very excited but don't know the rules yet. Also finding problem logging in to it.
Edited by gerbera 2015-06-26 10:03 AM
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rajgupta83
Country : India | Strange......
u can post here but not login....request u to chk pswrd correctly... |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-06-26 11:53 AM gerbera - 2015-06-26 9:51 AM
This will be my first comp very excited but don't know the rules yet. Also finding problem logging in to it.
It will be great if you can post the screen shot of page with error where you are not able to login which will help LMI Admin to sort out the problem. |
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gerbera
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| gerbera posted @ 2015-06-26 12:44 PM actually when i click on the demo it asks me to login and then the problem starts
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-26 1:08 PM I am having problem with demo submission.I submitted Classic-1 by Entering the answer keys i.eDigits in row A : 839174265Digits in row E : 451798632and showing a big red X And about Classic-2 which submitted in online mode837461259546792318912583467698374125724159836153628794275816943369247581481935672But showing Status : Your solution is wrong or incompleteAlso showing Total Points = 0 Edited by doku 2015-06-26 1:12 PM
 (doku2.PNG) (doku1.PNG)Attachments ----------------  doku2.PNG (68KB - 1 downloads) doku1.PNG (36KB - 0 downloads) |
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Swagatam
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Country : India | Whenever try to open demo page from mobile it says "this plug in is not supported". Can't we access that page from mobile? |
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Country : India | Swagatam - 2015-06-26 2:35 PM
Whenever try to open demo page from mobile it says "this plug in is not supported". Can't we access that page from mobile?
Mobile is not supported. We don't expect players to solve Sudokus on mobile. |
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Mathu
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Country : India | Mathu posted @ 2015-06-26 4:05 PM there is an option of printing the sudokus and solving on paper as wel for ISC..in that case, how do we submit that? do we hve to solve on a paper and then mark the answers online and then submit? |
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rvarun
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Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-26 4:59 PM Mathu - 2015-06-26 4:05 PM
there is an option of printing the sudokus and solving on paper as wel for ISC..in that case, how do we submit that? do we hve to solve on a paper and then mark the answers online and then submit?
Hi. There are two methods where you can solve and submit the answers in ISC.
1. You can print the question booklet, solve it and submit the marked rows and columns answers in the text box provided.
2. You can use the Online Flash interface where you can solve the sudoku without any need of printer.
If you see the above post by user doku, you will have the illustration of both the methods. The first one is the Flash interface and the second one is the text box format where you can solve and submit the marked row/column combination. Edited by rvarun 2015-06-26 5:01 PM
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-26 8:59 PM Still no one answered my query about demo submission |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | doku - 2015-06-26 8:59 PM
Still no one answered my query about demo submission
There were indeed some errors. Can you try again? |
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Country : India | Update - Points distribution published
Please re-download the Instruction booklet which now has the points distribution, or see below.
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Country : India | Demo Page You can familiarize yourself with the submission system for both paper mode and online mode on this link
http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/ISC_Demo/?online=1
This is repeated post, but if you are going to participate for the first time, we strongly advise you to visit the demo page and understand how it is working.
After the timing for ISC starts, the only thing you should be doing is solving the Sudokus, and not figure out how the website works.
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cyberx60
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Country : United States | For deficit surplus it's not clear what the rules are for areas with exactly 8 cells. Must the digits 1 - 8 appear or can we not operate under that assumption? In other words, are repeat digits in 8 cell areas forbidden? Thanks. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | cyberx60 - 2015-06-27 12:38 PM
For deficit surplus it's not clear what the rules are for areas with exactly 8 cells. Must the digits 1 - 8 appear or can we not operate under that assumption? In other words, are repeat digits in 8 cell areas forbidden? Thanks.
Right, there is an ambiguity.
The rule should be "In regions with less than or equal to 8 cells, digits should not repeat" |
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vopani
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Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-06-27 1:45 PM |
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sanket.saxena
Posts: 48
Country : India | Hi Rohan,
In your filler sudoku,total shaded cells should be 45, its 44 here and 5 is appearing only 4 times in shaded cells |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-06-27 3:52 PM sanket.saxena - 2015-06-27 3:47 PM
Hi Rohan,
In your filler sudoku,total shaded cells should be 45, its 44 here and 5 is appearing only 4 times in shaded cells
Yes, I missed a shaded cell. Its fixed now.
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prasanna16391
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doku
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Country : India | doku posted @ 2015-06-27 4:50 PM Yeah its very tough please someone provide any solving tips.
and about odd even view what are its basic solving strategy |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-06-27 5:22 PM
Really enjoyed solving this one. Well constructed.
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | doku - 2015-06-27 4:50 PM
Yeah its very tough please someone provide any solving tips.
and about odd even view what are its basic solving strategy
Triomino (specifically Ashish's ) - Note exit points for corner boxes. If a triomino 'goes out' of the corner box, there needs to be another place where it 'comes in' to make up the numbers. So if there aren't two exit points, the box must contain the entire triomino within itself. As a general tip for this variant I suggest having two sets of markings, one for cells which will contain a Triomino, and the other for cells which must contain digits (which isn't necessarily limited to just the cells with givens/solved digits ).
Odd Even View - Where there are two clues, the rules force one of those clues to be in the first cell from that direction. If there is a side that is entirely double-clued like the example in the Instructions booklet, then whatever digit occurs only once (e.g. 8 ) needs to be in the first cell of that direction, since, using the first sentence, it can't be anywhere else. Also, as a general tip here, it is useful to have two sets of markings, one for 'cell containing odd digit' and another for 'cell containing even digit', these can be useful without placing a digit at all. For instance if you solve the IB one, you should get 2 in R9C1 which forces R7R8R9C3 to be odd and that can be marked to keep track.
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2015-06-27 5:32 PM
Note exit points for corner boxes. If a triomino 'goes out' of the corner box, there needs to be another place where it 'comes in' to make up the numbers. So if there aren't two exit points, the box must contain the entire triomino within itself.
Actually, generally speaking, all boxes must have 0, 2 or 3 exit points. No box can have 1 exit point. |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-06-27 6:22 PM |
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purifire
Posts: 460
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For a moment I thought it was the same puzzle as in the IB. The clues are positioned the same and there is also that pair of 1 and 4 on the left side : )
Rishi |
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AS2476
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Country : India | AS2476 posted @ 2015-06-27 8:22 PM Hi Not able to submit the answers. its says submission before 28th june 1645hrs will only be considered |
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AS2476
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Country : India | AS2476 posted @ 2015-06-27 8:24 PM Hi, am not able to submit the answers, i guess the answers submitted before 28th june 1645 hrs will only be considered. |
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prasanna16391
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ConfigurationsBeauty
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Country : India | Can I solve some on Paper and key in the marked rows/columns and use LMI interface for some? |
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-27 11:06 PM ConfigurationsBeauty - 2015-06-27 10:39 PM
Can I solve some on Paper and key in the marked rows/columns and use LMI interface for some?
Yes. Of course. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Sudoku booklet uploaded• Password protected Sudoku booklet has been uploaded
• It has 12 pages
• There is no cover page or points table
• Individual puzzles will have points and instructions shown next to the grid. Example will not be shown.
• Page 3 will have only Expanded Sudoku. Pages 4-5 will have four 6X6 Sudokus each. All other pages will have two Sudoku grids.
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Hemant Kr Malani
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Country : India | I'm not able to find the sudoku booklet. |
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Country : India | Hemant Kr Malani - 2015-06-28 11:58 AM
I'm not able to find the sudoku booklet.
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-06-28 12:39 PM Administrator - 2015-06-28 7:05 AM
Sudoku booklet uploaded• Password protected Sudoku booklet has been uploaded
• It has 12 pages
• There is no cover page or points table
• Individual puzzles will have points and instructions shown next to the grid. Example will not be shown.
• Page 3 will have only Expanded Sudoku. Pages 4-5 will have four 6X6 Sudokus each. All other pages will have two Sudoku grids.
Remember that only the password protected sudoku Booklet has been uploaded and the password to open it will be accessible only at 2PM IST.So don't panic ,if new users are able to download the booklet but unable to open it before 2PM.
Good luck to all!!
Kishore |
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aakash
Country : India | aakash posted @ 2015-06-28 12:48 PM Is wrapping considered in Search 9
For Instruction booklet sudoko 25) can I conclude row8-col9 can only be 1/2 ... If sudoko wrapping allowed, then it can be 1/2/6/7
Edited by aakash 2015-06-28 12:48 PM
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Country : India | aakash - 2015-06-28 12:48 PM
Is wrapping considered in Search 9
For Instruction booklet sudoko 25) can I conclude row8-col9 can only be 1/2 ... If sudoko wrapping allowed, then it can be 1/2/6/7
Please do not complicate. There is no wrapping.
In Instruction booklet, R8C9 is given as 1. Not sure how you are determining options for R8C9. |
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deepika m
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Country : India | all d best to everyone
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sn1947
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| sn1947 posted @ 2015-06-28 1:55 PM When i click on the link to participate online it says plugin not supported
What should i do |
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puneet87
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Country : India | maybe try in Internet Explorer ? |
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Country : India | sn1947 - 2015-06-28 1:55 PM
When i click on the link to participate online it says plugin not supported
What should i do
Try https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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sn1947
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| sn1947 posted @ 2015-06-28 2:09 PM I have a asus tablet
Using asus browser and chrome browser , plugin is not supported |
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puneet87
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Country : India | In search 9, i am getting R1C6 = 1, R2C7 = 9 which makes R7C2=9 & R7C7=9 which becomes inconsistent. |
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puneet87
Posts: 33
Country : India |
i mean R7C2=5 & R7C7=5 |
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puneet87
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Country : India | In search 9, i am getting R1C6 = 1, R2C7 = 9 which makes R7C2=5 & R7C7=5 which becomes inconsistent.
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Country : India | @puneet87, Please read the rules carefully. If you are still facing problems, move on to next Sudoku. |
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Neeta Vahia
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| Administrator - 2015-06-28 1:58 PM
sn1947 - 2015-06-28 1:55 PM
When i click on the link to participate online it says plugin not supported
What should i do
Try https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Please note mobile is not supported. You need to use a laptop/desktop.
After clicking "here" for the online solving option, It does not allow me to login and doesn't go any further.
What should I do?
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purifire
Posts: 460
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? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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srbh22
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Country : India | srbh22 posted @ 2015-06-28 4:39 PM How can we check our ratings/rank in ISC 2015??? |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-28 4:39 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | No, there were really few easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-28 4:53 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | No, there were really few easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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ConfigurationsBeauty
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Country : India | | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
I loved OEV. Wasn't that difficult as IB or Rajesh's and hence optimally suited !! Best puzzles: 1. OE View 2. Anti Knight - Exquisitely designed 3. Extra Regions 4. Search 9 - Started 2 times as I forgot the first 9 for 45 degree arrows |
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sanket.saxena
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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? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Country : India | Results - Top 4
Congrats to the top 4 solvers from the official Indian Sudoku Championship results.
1. Rishi Puri
2. Prasanna Seshadri
3. Rohan Rao
4. Kishore Kumar
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Congrats Rishi! So you're the one who ended up defending your title :P
Congrats to Rohan and Kishore too. Kishore, finally in the top 4 eh?  |
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salamaummer
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Country : India | | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood most of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-06-28 6:28 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 hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
That puts an end to ISC 2015!What a delightful contest!.My favourites of the set were Diagonal 1,Extra-Regions,Arrow and Killer.I had a good time solving the rest too but these stood out in terms of solving fun and design. Diagonal 1 had the total top half empty.Very hard and nice.Extra regions was innovatively designed utilizing the concept of Buddy cells well .Killer had something going in it with the non-caged cells in each box and last but not least, I always find arrows to be very pleasant when they are longer and the min./max. of each cell on the arrow stem is to be decided. On a personal note,I rarely had any hiccups on any of the sudokus.I was confident of completing the set with just the Shapes to be done and dusted and about 12 mins in the offing.But as things would have it,I failed to see a simple straightforward deduction for about 6mins.Lack of mental stamina maybe!phew!!!But this little thing never blemished my experience of the contest in any way and I don't even repent now of failing to see it . After the contest, I had a go at the shapes and there were things like Sword-fish that I noted which fascinated me a lot.I thanked my stars that I gave it at the last as I would have been stuck forever.PS:I am still stuck in the shapes and yet to complete it!But I just admire it for its unique construction.Great work! Thanks to Deb and to all the authors for creating such an excellent test and making the weekend very enjoyable.Great work addressing the queries promptly too. Kishore Edited by kishy72 2015-06-28 6:34 PM
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-06-28 6:33 PM prasanna16391 - 2015-06-28 5:35 PM
Congrats Rishi! So you're the one who ended up defending your title :P
Congrats to Rohan and Kishore too. Kishore, finally in the top 4 eh?
Yes!Finally in the fourth year of my entry into sudoku but no way close to you guys ///the Deadly Trio comprising you,Rishi and Rohan in terms of speed as well as accuracy. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-28 6:35 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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rakesh_rai
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Country : India |
And, Good performance by the Sudoku Champs debutants as well.
Aditi 25th (415 points)
Hemant 28th (366.5 points)
Shristi 33rd (344 points)
Kartik 84th (220 points)
Shambo (310 points)
Pranav (300 points)
Congratulations !
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kousek-nebe
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Country : Czech Republic | | 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 | | | 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 @ 2015-06-28 7:59 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | kishy72 - 2015-06-28 6:33 PM
prasanna16391 - 2015-06-28 5:35 PM
Congrats Rishi! So you're the one who ended up defending your title :P
Congrats to Rohan and Kishore too. Kishore, finally in the top 4 eh?
Yes!Finally in the fourth year of my entry into sudoku but no way close to you guys ///the Deadly Trio comprising you,Rishi and Rohan in terms of speed as well as accuracy.
After breaking 6 Sudokus and needing to re-solve each of them I hardly deserve plaudits for my accuracy  |
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ghirsch
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Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-06-28 8:24 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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purifire
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Country : India | If it is any consolation then I also broke both the toroidals. Luckily they were 6x6 so not much time lost ?? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | I just somehow found a way to break each one right at the end. Would just liked to have closed the gap a little is all (and maybe avoided the re-prints  )
Seriously though, need to get back my accuracy before the WSC. |
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MrLiang
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Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2015-06-28 11:24 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-28 11:27 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-29 2:37 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? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-29 4:05 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 | |
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puneet87
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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? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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rajgupta83
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? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | May i know how many participated in Sudoku, is it just 163 from all over India.....I solved only 6 Sudokus still ranking 99th 
No Printer...and neither flash interface.... redrarwing sudokus on Paper |
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rvarun
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Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-29 11:06 AM rakesh_rai - 2015-06-28 6:37 PM
And, Good performance by the Sudoku Champs debutants as well.
Aditi 25th (415 points)
Hemant 28th (366.5 points)
Shristi 33rd (344 points)
Kartik 84th (220 points)
Shambo (310 points)
Pranav (300 points)
Congratulations !
Congrats to the Sudoku Champs for the great debut performance and all the best for the WJSC. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-29 11:20 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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distri
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Country : France | distri posted @ 2015-06-29 11:58 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-29 1:58 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood most of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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devarajand
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Country : India | Except placing a 3 at r8c4, I could not move forward in Extra Region. Can any one guide me. |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | When will be the Offline Times Sudoku Championship be held?? I am eagerly waiting...i hope its same venue Dadar!! |
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rajgupta83
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Only Classics or Variants will also be included?? in Mumbai Rounds |
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rvarun
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Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-29 5:22 PM |
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wgryciuk
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Country : Poland | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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lenzo
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Country : ITALY | lenzo posted @ 2015-06-30 12:20 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 | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-06-30 12:46 AM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood most of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | No, there were really few easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | No, there were really few familiar types. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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achan1058
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Country : Canada | The result link points to this thread instead of an actual result page. Is that intentional? |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | achan1058 - 2015-06-30 5:49 AM
The result link points to this thread instead of an actual result page. Is that intentional?
Yes, since there's an official results page and an unofficial (+international ) results page, you have the choice of the link to go to from the comment the link points to. |
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devarajand
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Country : India | I could not get reply to my earlier post; Except placing a 3 at r8c4, I could not move forward in Extra Region. Can any one guide me. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | devarajand - 2015-06-30 12:18 PM
I could not get reply to my earlier post; Except placing a 3 at r8c4, I could not move forward in Extra Region. Can any one guide me. You should be able to put lot of 2s (e.g. in R9C6, R8C8 ).
You can also use In-Out shortcut after proceeding for a while. |
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rajgupta83
Country : India | just eager to know how many participated in Indian Sudoku championship on Sunday.....pls share the number |
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2015-06-30 4:42 PM rajgupta83 - 2015-06-30 4:38 PM
just eager to know how many participated in Indian Sudoku championship on Sunday.....pls share the number
Hi. You can see the official ISC SCore Page http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/ISC/score.asp to check on the number of participants with cut-off time as 16:45 IST. |
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sanket.saxena
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Country : India | Will we get the certificate this time like last year? |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 1:35 PM I'm 2nd in India :) |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 1:37 PM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:01 PM and only 197 participated from India its not seems like a national level championship.
for eg I organize a sudoku championship in my group of say 90 persons and one of us wins so he or she should say I am Indian Sudoku Champion since I beaten 89 peoples.
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:03 PM why D is appearing before my ID ? |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | sim - 2015-07-01 2:01 PM
and only 197 participated from India its not seems like a national level championship.
for eg I organize a sudoku championship in my group of say 90 persons and one of us wins so he or she should say I am Indian Sudoku Champion since I beaten 89 peoples.
The ISC is free and open to anyone with an internet connection. Beyond the 197 no one is prevented from participating.
Also, the reason this is the Indian Sudoku Championship is that it is organized by the Indian Affiliate of the World Puzzle Federation. |
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Country : India | sim - 2015-07-01 2:03 PM
why D is appearing before my ID ? Check your email. |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:13 PM
I think sudoku is not a government register mind sport in india
and whats that "Affiliate of the World Puzzle Federation"
are you saying like as ICC to cricket , WPF to sudoku |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | sim - 2015-07-01 2:13 PM
and whats that "Affiliate of the World Puzzle Federation"
are you saying like as ICC to cricket , WPF to sudoku
See for yourself - http://www.worldpuzzle.org/ |
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sim
Posts: 9
Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:19 PM Got it since its my first time and how I can get such a rank Is you guys have any proof of the others top players if they cheated or not.
There are many sudoku solvers available on net classic ,diagonals ,killers etc and ISC 2015 IB released 11 days before the competition an expert programmer can prepare all sudoku solvers with in such a time frame.
OR
anyone can take help from any number of person like printing all 12 pages and disturbing to 12 person and submitting as one player ID
but I have not done any cheat , neither use any solver nor taken any other person help.
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:31 PM OK its your site do what you want with my results anyways
puzzles of the contest is very nice.
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | sim - 2015-07-01 2:19 PM
Is you guys have any proof of the others top players if they cheated or not.
Its not my place to comment on the rest of your concerns, but yes there is proof for the top players, since all of the top 10 have also excelled at offline tournaments like the Times Sudoku Championship and also the World Sudoku Championship, and the results are consistent with the ones here. Is it possible for you to participate in the Times Sudoku Championship that's coming up soon? If your result there is as impressive it is an easy way to prove things. |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:34 PM and one more things since sudoku is not an government register game so no one can organize its official championships.
But some groups of people coming together and making it as like an official championship is quite ... |
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sim
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Country : India | sim posted @ 2015-07-01 2:37 PM I dont want to proof any thing since its not like a last sudoku competition for me, do what you want with my rank |
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B. Thananon
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Country : Thailand | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Some of puzzles have too low points not balanced with their difficulty. |
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Black Tiger
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Country : Iran | | 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Country : India | Password removed from Sudoku booklet.
Link to solutions booklet - Solutions |
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Country : India | AuthorsThanks to all the authors, who provided the Sudokus at a relatively short notice period, as per the difficulty requirements.
Daisuke Takei - Classic 1, Classic 2
Frederic Stalder - Classic 3, Classic 4, Diagonal 1
Ko Okamoto - Filler
Minako Sakai - Search 9
Nikola Zivanovic - Expanded, True or Lie, Deficit-Surplus, Odd Even View, Triomino
Tetsuya Nishio - Arrow
Yukio Sugimoto - Diagonal 2
Thanks also to Branko Ceranic for pretesting.
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | Thanks to all the authors, including Deb.
Especially liked Killer, Odd Even View, Triomino and Arrow. I also liked Extra Regions for the first time ever. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Unfortunately couldn't participate this time.
Congrats to all top 4. One of the best teams ever.
Congrats Kishy for finally making into the Team after your continuous improved performance. :)
Good luck for WSC. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
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? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
The puzzles being too easy is just due to a selfish preference, since I feel a harder difficulty suits me better :P The quality really was great, even down to the easiest ones like the True Or Lie Sudoku which had a really good simple theme. Thanks to all the authors/organizers/testers. |
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Country : India | ISC 2015 is overISC 2015 was held to determine the National Champion and Indian A-team for the World Sudoku Championship. Rishi Puri won with an impressive score of 1369.6, finishing all 27 puzzles in 97 minutes. Prasanna Seshadri was the runner-up, finishing in 112 minutes, with Rohan Rao finishing in 119 minutes for 3rd place. The top 3 were the only ones among the official rankings who finished the set but Kishore Kumar came within one puzzle of a finish, with 930 points, rounding up the top 4 for the Indian A-Team.
Many of our junior team made their ISC debut this year. Aditi Seshadri (25th), Hemant Malani (28th), Shristi Kejriwal (33rd) and Kartik Reddy (84th) all posted good strong scores in the official section of the Championship while Shambo Debnath and Pranav Kamesh also had decent performances during the unofficial section.
The unofficial section was topped by Tiit Vunk of Estonia, who finished just 8 minutes faster than Rishi, whose score was enough to get him a 4th place in the International rankings. Kota Morinishi (Japan) and Jakub Ondrousek (Czech Republic) were 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Congratulations to all the winners and the debutants!
Thank you everyone for participating. We hope you enjoyed the contest. Please let us know any feedback regarding puzzles/format/etc. and feel free to rate the puzzles on the submission page.
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debmohanty
Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2015-07-01 5:27 PM
The puzzles being too easy is just due to a selfish preference, since I feel a harder difficulty suits me better :P I agree that the overall difficulty is little less than what we have seen in previous years. Just by going by the time taken by best Indian to complete the set,
2013 - 125 minutes
2014 - 106 minutes
2015 - 97 minutes
In the hindsight, I could have included few more difficult Sudokus, without increasing the number of Sudokus. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Certificates & PrizesAs we had done last year, we'll be sending participation certificates to all the official participants on their registered email IDs. Also, as we had done last year, we are making the hard copies of the certificates, along with the organizer's sign, available at the price of Rs. 99. The account details will be sent in the mail with the participation certificate. Unlike last year, we have set a deadline for our convenience. All requests for hard copies, along with details of preferred name, and mailing address, need to be mailed in reply to the Participation certificate email by 31st August. We will then courier all of them together in the 1st week of September.
In addition to this, the top 10 official participants will receive a prize each. Details about the prize will be announced here at a later date, and the prizes will be sent along with certificates in the 1st week of September.
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achan1058
Posts: 80
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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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rajgupta83
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-07-02 8:40 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-07-03 11:59 AM | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship? | Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles. | | | Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
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Yajendra
Posts: 18
Country : India | Unfortunately, I could not participate in the competition due to the year end auditing. Looking forward to participate in Times Sudoku |
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Ziti
Posts: 42
Country : United States | Ziti posted @ 2015-07-04 11:39 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 easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-07-04 1:04 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 | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | I have a different complaint | |
Some lines in several grids contained extra half cell long endings when printed. This has happened also before. Grids 8 and 22 could not be solved from the print-out without seeing them on the screen. Edited by An LMI player 2015-07-04 1:10 PM
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vopani
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Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-07-04 10:57 PM An LMI player - 2015-07-04 1:04 PM
Some lines in several grids contained extra half cell long endings when printed. This has happened also before. Grids 8 and 22 could not be solved from the print-out without seeing them on the screen.
Yes, I've faced this problem too. I believe it is a problem specific to certain printers, but its weird that it happens.
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Mamta
Posts: 6
Country : India | Mamta posted @ 2015-07-17 6:45 PM Can anybody help me on Anti Knight sudoku. I tried a lot but could not proceed. I was just able to fill 5 Nos i.e. 9 in r3c4, 1 in r5c5, 3 in r6c1, 8 in r7c5 and 7 in r9c4 |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Mamta - 2015-07-17 6:45 PM
Can anybody help me on Anti Knight sudoku. I tried a lot but could not proceed. I was just able to fill 5 Nos i.e. 9 in r3c4, 1 in r5c5, 3 in r6c1, 8 in r7c5 and 7 in r9c4
Cheeck for 2 and then 4 in r7. Hint is to see the places these digits can't be placed due to intersection of classic & anti knight rules using box 6. |
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Mamta
Posts: 6
Country : India | Mamta posted @ 2015-07-19 10:19 PM Thanks Prassanna for the guidance |
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puneet87
Posts: 33
Country : India | also, once we have established that (r5,c1) & (r5,c3) can only be 9 and 5 (after placing 1 in (r5,c5) and confirming that (r5,c7) & (r5,c9) can only be 3 & 8) but since one of (r4,c5) & (r6,c5) has to be 9, we can eliminate 9 from (r5,c3). |
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mihiryadav
Posts: 27
Country : India | When will be the certificates distributed? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | mihiryadav - 2015-08-24 7:41 AM
When will be the certificates distributed?
We were a bit pre-occupied with starting/scheduling Sudoku Mahabharat & Puzzle Ramayan, we will get to this in a few days. Sorry about the delay. The dates for requesting hard copies will also be extended appropriately. |
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Administrator
Country : India | An email has been sent to all participants with your e-certificates. Please reply to it if you want a hard copy, with the necessary details requested in the mail. |
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sanket.saxena
Posts: 48
Country : India | Is there any update on certificates? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | I am yet to reach back home since the WPC (stopped at Mumbai for a week), and I suppose I'll need to sign the IPC ones. So a little while longer, because we want to send as many as possible together (ISC+IPC). |