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Country : India | Thanks to David for authoring Sampler Platter. It was a very different test at LMI, with lot of the players hitting the 500 mark.
Thanks to Rishi for pre-testing the puzzles. He would have definitely got the bonus points had he taken the test.
Thanks to Neeraj and Rohan for pre-testing the submission site and updated results page.
Hope everyone enjoyed the test. Please leave your feedback about Sampler Platter here and / or rate the Sudokus, if you have not done so yet.
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davmillar
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Country : United States | Thanks to everyone who tried my puzzles this competition! I appreciate all of you taking the time to enter and solve my puzzles.
Regarding round 4: I'm sorry about the unusual rules in this round. Because I wanted to use all rule types but have separate sections, I thought combining the odd-sum pair and consecutive clues in that way would be the easiest and most logical way to combine the clue types. Now looking back I can see it caused a lot of confusion. If I ever do a similar puzzle set in the future I'll be sure to exclude any confusing rules like this one.
Please also let me know if there is any additional feedback anyone has - I always aim to improve the way I create puzzles to make the best experience for puzzle solvers.
David |
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debmohanty
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | cnarrikkattu - 2010-08-08 10:39 PM
Very, very nice puzzles. I like how the logic flowed in the latter stages even though it looked like it shouldn't.
A feature suggestion for the online submission: give a warning when you haven't filled all the cells you need to (all cells pre-"show cells to fill" time, highlighted cells after clicking "show cells to fill"). I almost missed a region of cells to fill in one of the 6x6 puzzles!
Hi Chris,
The warning feture has not been added on purpose. The purpose is not for a player to only solve it but also to input the answer correctly... If in an actual competition I submit a sudoku with a few blank cells (Which in reality has happened with me plenty of times, including the Indian National Championship this year ), nobody gives me a warning to fill up the blank parts. So in a way we are tying to make people double chk the puzzle to ensure completeness in solving as well as submission. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Rishi, Good point.
By the way, for those who don't know, Rishi left one cell blank, which cost him the title. |
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2010-08-09 8:07 PM David, thanks for creating grids and preparing tournament. I enjoy this ! 
Especially grids of stage 4 and 5 were nice and it was interesting to solve them.
In my opinion, it could have been 2 or 3 more difficult grids to settle best players otherwise than bonus time.
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@ 2010-08-09 8:52 AM (#1111 - in reply to #934) (#1111) Top