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hello..
i have just registered on the website.. please let me know about the ongoing competitions and how should i begin with them??
is beginners sudoku contest over???

Hi Sanchita. The only contest going on right now is the Indian Puzzle Championship, but the official part of that is over.

Beginners' Sudoku contests are held regularly through the year, and if you just look at the forum once in a while, you'll see the latest ongoing contest in the top right of your screen.

Sir,
I want to participate in the monthly contests. I am the beginner. Kindly help me to participate the monthly tests and instruct me as to how to proceed

As of now, there aren't any monthly contests announced. The next contest here will be the ISC which you can follow up on here - http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=712 .

Other than that, visit the forum regularly, the current contest will be present on the top right (Where the Times Sudoku Championship 2013 is shown right now). You can also keep an eye on this topic itself for future Beginners' contests. You can solve the past contests in the mean time by going through the archives here - http://logicmastersindia.com/BeginnersSudoku/ .

How to solve the problems on line. Or I have to take a note and practise outside the system If so where r the answers Do U have any demonstration (live) with U and if so how to open the sane

Please check this link : http://logicmastersindia.com/BeginnersSudoku/
You can practice last month's sudokus there.

When will the monthly test for july be? How will I get intimated about it?

I mean to say the Beginners test for the month of July

Hi,
Usually all contests will be announced in 1 week advance.
There is Indian Sudoku Championship that will be held on 10th August, 2013, check this link
There is no contest in July.
Keep watching the forum for updates/information.

Regards,
Ravi

Hi,
I have joined LMI today. Where i can go and start solving sudoku? can anyone help me little bit.

Shailendra

Hi Shailendra. You have two sets of archives you can look through for Sudokus. First, if you are new to variations in general, I suggest taking a look at Beginners' Contests. There is month-wise categorization on the right of that link, and each month has one Classics PDF and one Variants PDF that you can print and solve (there is generally an interface when a contest is live, but since these are past ones, there are just PDFs. If you go to the latest one in June 2013, I think the interface is still activated).

There are also Monthly Sudoku tests that can be found here. These are of higher difficulty, generally around the standard of difficulty seen at the World Championships.

The next contest here on LMI will be the Indian Sudoku Championship, which you just need to keep track of on this topic.

Thanks prasanna for the information. It means I can not solve live now but I can download pdfs and practice. I will participate in next month contest. I think next live is on 10th Aug.

hello i am kumaesan recently joined this forum, i would like to know when will be the next beginners test

Hi Kumaresan. as of now, there is no Beginners' test announced, but they are held regularly, so keep a lookout on this forum for such an announcement. In the meantime, check out the topic of the Indian Sudoku Championship, which will be on 11th August (click on the link of the same on the top right to get to the discussion topic for that).

I am a beginner, and I want to have exposure to the different sudoku variations. Can anybody suggest any links with rules & examples/techniques for this?

Thanks

Hi,
This may help you in what you are looking for
List of Sudoku contests held so far: http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/downloads.asp?puzzleTypes=S
List of Sudoku/Puzzle sites/blogs: http://logicmastersindia.com/home/?g=links

Regards,
Ravi

This sounds really great. I took my first shot at Sudokus seriously in the Times Sudoku Championship and then tried to solve at the ISC held on 11th Aug' 2013. I really enjoyed it though I stumbled a lot since this was my first participation in an online championship like this. Couldnt crack through in the beginning and lost lot of precious moments. It took quite some time for the puzzles to appear and I thought I was making some mistakes and kept going back to instruction booklet again and again.

Just a request......It would be great if you could handhold a bit in the steps to play the championship online without a printer. The instruction needed little more elaboration. Again only a request, since there could be more people like me who are interested in participating but not quite going past the steps quickly. Thanks again for starting the beginners championship. Looking forward to it...will participate definitely.

Hi
Can you go to http://logicmastersindia.com/BeginnersSudoku/ ?
Login, and click on "Start Classics".
The Sudokus take a while to load, but not more than 10-15 seconds. Does it take more time for you? You need to scroll a bit to see the sudokus.


Online solving takes a while to get used to. That is reason we had enabled some examples to be solved online.
The key board / mouse controls are described here. Other than that it is more of practice than anything else. If you have any specific question / request, please post here again and one of us will help you out.

Thanks Deb....I did go to the link provided by you above which led to the instructions and steps provided for June Beginners Championship. I have one more question...In step 3, it says using the password provided below the timer, the Sudoku booklet can be unlocked. Now how to use this passwork, click on it or paste it somewhere....Actually on Aug 11th, I was frantically clicking on it and a couple of other tabs not knowing exactly what to do with it. And lo! it just worked....but didn't know how...hence now this question to you, so I don't repeat this again. Thanks in advance again.

Password is not to be used by players who are solving online. You can simply ignore it.

If you are solving on paper, you need to download the "Sudoku Booklet", which is a password protected pdf file. When you click on "Start Classics" (or Start ISC), we display the password. Using this password, you can open the pdf file and print and start solving on paper.

So, to repeat, if you are solving online, you don't need to do anything with the password.

Some of the documentation may be little out-dated or may not be clear enough. We have been running these tests for so long that everything just seems natural to us. So, feel free to point out any oddity that you notice anywhere, and we will rectify it as needed.

Thanks Ravi for the links

Thanks again Deb and one more request! Can you put me on some links where I can practice online solving. I came across a lot of archives with sample sudokus in PDF form....but I guess practicing online would be better in terms of pre-preparation prior to the ensuing Beginner's Championship on 21st Aug, 2013. Thanks again in advance.

You are right that all the archived tests are only in pdf-form. As of now, the June Beginners Test and ISC 2013 are available for practicing online. But I guess you have practiced both of them already.

We did put lot of interactively solvable sudokus here - http://logicmastersindia.com/puzzles/ but it has been a while since anything new was added there.