@ 2013-03-08 12:13 AM (#10209 - in reply to #9546) (#10209) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-08 12:13 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Fity Fifty | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-08 3:33 AM (#10212 - in reply to #9546) (#10212) TopPosts: 9
Country : Czech Republic
jhrdina posted @ 2013-03-08 3:33 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Multi Skyscrapers | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Bit unfair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
The scoring is a little unfair in the respect that the most difficult puzzles have the least effect on scoring. They take too much time and bring too little bonus. It would be better to calculate bonus points against an average or median of times of the solvers.
@ 2013-03-08 4:34 AM (#10214 - in reply to #10212) (#10214) TopPosts: 315
Country : The Netherlands
Para posted @ 2013-03-08 4:34 AM
jhrdina - 2013-03-08 3:33 AM
The scoring is a little unfair in the respect that the most difficult puzzles have the least effect on scoring. They take too much time and bring too little bonus. It would be better to calculate bonus points against an average or median of times of the solvers.
The scoring is a little unfair in the respect that the most difficult puzzles have the least effect on scoring. They take too much time and bring too little bonus. It would be better to calculate bonus points against an average or median of times of the solvers.
Isn't that what happens now? Every puzzle, no matter what the fastest solving time has the same bonus for the fastest solver. So every puzzle has the same range of bonus.
If you mean, the mean of all solvers, even the ones taking more than an hour, then it would severely alter the test structure. the idea of the one hour bonus cutoff point is so people can stop solving and don't have to keep solving for hours if they can't finish it as otherwise they'd lose loads of points.
@ 2013-03-08 8:42 AM (#10216 - in reply to #9546) (#10216) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-08 8:42 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Graffiti Snake | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Maxi Loop | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice |
@ 2013-03-08 9:53 AM (#10217 - in reply to #9546) (#10217) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-08 9:53 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Star Battle | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Multi Skyscrapers | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-09 12:53 AM (#10222 - in reply to #9546) (#10222) TopPosts: 11
Country : Bulgaria
zorko posted @ 2013-03-09 12:53 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Graffiti Snake | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Maxi Loop | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-09 1:21 AM (#10223 - in reply to #9546) (#10223) TopPosts: 10
Country : India
keshava.hs posted @ 2013-03-09 1:21 AM
not getting marks for Maxi loop, please have a look
@ 2013-03-09 1:40 AM (#10224 - in reply to #9546) (#10224) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-09 1:40 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Watches | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
For people like me, it would be nice to get bonus points for a longer period than 60 minutes. Because often puzzles need just some more than 60 minutes (that was for several puzzles this time), and this is worth just the same as working hours or days solving them. But nevertheless I enjoyed the contest very much, and it was hard to choose the 3 "best" puzzles, for they were all beautiful!
@ 2013-03-09 2:38 PM (#10227 - in reply to #9546) (#10227) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-09 2:38 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Star Battle | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-09 3:24 PM (#10228 - in reply to #9546) (#10228) TopPosts: 774
Country : India
rakesh_rai posted @ 2013-03-09 3:24 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-09 8:23 PM (#10231 - in reply to #9546) (#10231) TopPosts: 241
Country : Indonesia
chaotic_iak posted @ 2013-03-09 8:23 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Star Battle | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Graffiti Snake | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
Well, the second and the third favorite puzzles are hard to decide; I have four candidates (Star Battle, Graffiti Snake, Maxi Loop, and Liar Diagonal Slitherlink). The first is certainly Araf for me though.
Great puzzles overall.
@ 2013-03-09 9:29 PM (#10232 - in reply to #9546) (#10232) TopPosts: 3
Country : Uzbekistan
Igor_Aipkin posted @ 2013-03-09 9:29 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Fity Fifty | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 3:56 AM (#10235 - in reply to #10192) (#10235) TopPosts: 3567
Country : India
Administrator posted @ 2013-03-10 3:56 AM
witty - 2013-03-06 10:42 AM
Can the submission deadline be extended by a few days?
You finished even with more than a day to spare, which not many Indians have done yet. Hope you enjoyed.Can the submission deadline be extended by a few days?
@ 2013-03-10 4:23 AM (#10236 - in reply to #9546) (#10236) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-10 4:23 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Masyu | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 5:34 AM (#10237 - in reply to #9546) (#10237) TopPosts: 8
Country : Switzerland
esther59 posted @ 2013-03-10 5:34 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Graffiti Snake | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
Thank you VERY MUCH for this contest! It was really a very hard week for me to do all these puzzles, because I didn't know most of them and they were very difficult for me. But in the end, I have solved them all, I am very proud ;-). Normally, I put puzzles after solving into the waste-paper basket, but these Marathon puzzles I will keep til I die ;-).
Thanks again to all the authors for these fantastic puzzles.
@ 2013-03-10 7:06 AM (#10238 - in reply to #9546) (#10238) TopPosts: 7
Country : Serbia
rimodech posted @ 2013-03-10 7:06 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 7:49 AM (#10239 - in reply to #9546) (#10239) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-10 7:49 AM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Maxi Loop | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Star Battle | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 1:47 PM (#10240 - in reply to #10239) (#10240) TopPosts: 422
Country : India
kishy72 posted @ 2013-03-10 1:47 PM
I am sorry that i have to bring this up again.I am not able to make a start in the Gapped Kakuro.I tried bifurcating but there are simply
too many places to bifurcate and it is not a choice .
Is there a walkthrough or solving technique or starting tips anywhere in the web for Gapped Kakuro?I tried searching but i could not find any
Can someone post me a link or something if available?Thnks .
too many places to bifurcate and it is not a choice .
Is there a walkthrough or solving technique or starting tips anywhere in the web for Gapped Kakuro?I tried searching but i could not find any
Can someone post me a link or something if available?Thnks .
@ 2013-03-10 1:52 PM (#10241 - in reply to #9546) (#10241) TopPosts: 3567
Country : India
Administrator posted @ 2013-03-10 1:52 PM
@kishy, here is one.
@ 2013-03-10 1:57 PM (#10242 - in reply to #10240) (#10242) TopPosts: 1887
Country : India
prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-03-10 1:57 PM
kishy72 - 2013-03-10 1:47 PM
I am sorry that i have to bring this up again.I am not able to make a start in the Gapped Kakuro.I tried bifurcating but there are simply
too many places to bifurcate and it is not a choice .
Is there a walkthrough or solving technique or starting tips anywhere in the web for Gapped Kakuro?I tried searching but i could not find any
Can someone post me a link or something if available?Thnks .
I am sorry that i have to bring this up again.I am not able to make a start in the Gapped Kakuro.I tried bifurcating but there are simply
too many places to bifurcate and it is not a choice .
Is there a walkthrough or solving technique or starting tips anywhere in the web for Gapped Kakuro?I tried searching but i could not find any
Can someone post me a link or something if available?Thnks .
To start this particular one, just ask yourself, how many cells can 9 digits with just one gap between them be stretched to? ;) Gapped Kakuro is based a lot on either "stretching" logic (you can only put these many numbers, if there's so many cells for a sum, then so many have to be spaces) or crowded logic (this sum can't have any spaces because its big enough that all cells will be required). Then mark the spaces and the cells you've determined a number needs to be in, that helps.
@ 2013-03-10 3:28 PM (#10243 - in reply to #9546) (#10243) TopPosts: 42
Country : United States
PuzzleScott posted @ 2013-03-10 3:28 PM
When does the contest end? (I'm guessing in less than 24 hours, but I'm not really sure when). Any chance you could put an ending timer on the main page like for most contests?
Good contest and puzzles, thanks!
Good contest and puzzles, thanks!
@ 2013-03-10 3:42 PM (#10244 - in reply to #10243) (#10244) Top
Posts: 1868
Country : India
debmohanty posted @ 2013-03-10 3:42 PM
PuzzleScott - 2013-03-10 3:28 PM
When does the contest end? (I'm guessing in less than 24 hours, but I'm not really sure when). Any chance you could put an ending timer on the main page like for most contests?
Good contest and puzzles, thanks!
In about 13 hours, as I post this. When does the contest end? (I'm guessing in less than 24 hours, but I'm not really sure when). Any chance you could put an ending timer on the main page like for most contests?
Good contest and puzzles, thanks!
In the contest page, if you logout (top-right) of the flash, you will see the end time etc back again.
Edited by debmohanty 2013-03-10 3:44 PM
@ 2013-03-10 5:59 PM (#10246 - in reply to #9546) (#10246) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2013-03-10 5:59 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Watches | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 6:27 PM (#10247 - in reply to #9546) (#10247) TopPosts: 148
Country : France
Ours brun posted @ 2013-03-10 6:27 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Liar Diagonal Slitherlink | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Gapped Kakuro | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |
@ 2013-03-10 8:34 PM (#10248 - in reply to #9546) (#10248) TopPosts: 66
Country : Hungary
Valezius posted @ 2013-03-10 8:34 PM
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Star Battle | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mintonette | |
| Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | |
| How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | |
| What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice |