@ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM (#1153 - in reply to #1064) (#1153) Top | |
Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM |
@ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM (#1154 - in reply to #1150) (#1154) Top | |
Posts: 40 Country : China | Minfang Lin posted @ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM You can determine digits' position by logic, don't worry about this. It's the first time we do this kind of relay, so they're easy to determine, eg: {1234} from previous puzzle, and in next puzzle the mark cell already have {123} in its peer cells, so this cell must be 4. but, no all like this :) if you make the wrong place, you will find no solution for the puzzle, or if you haven't decide all marked cells, you will find multiple solution. |
@ 2010-08-12 11:19 AM (#1158 - in reply to #1064) (#1158) Top | |
Posts: 774 Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2010-08-12 11:19 AM I went through the IB version 2 but could not find the points distribution. When is the points distribution expected to be announced? |
@ 2010-08-12 3:29 PM (#1159 - in reply to #1158) (#1159) Top | |
Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2010-08-12 3:29 PM |
@ 2010-08-12 7:50 PM (#1160 - in reply to #1159) (#1160) Top | |
Posts: 40 Country : China | Minfang Lin posted @ 2010-08-12 7:50 PM Another notice for players: Please make a table for variants part before the test, or print the one in extra page. |
@ 2010-08-13 6:10 PM (#1163 - in reply to #1064) (#1163) Top | |
Posts: 40 Country : China | Minfang Lin posted @ 2010-08-13 6:10 PM Announcement: PB is available now! Chinese version of IB http://www.sudokufans.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=97 |
@ 2010-08-14 1:11 AM (#1164 - in reply to #1064) (#1164) Top | |
Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2010-08-14 1:11 AM !!! Best of luck to everyone !!! |
@ 2010-08-14 8:36 PM (#1167 - in reply to #1064) (#1167) Top | |
Posts: 337 Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2010-08-14 8:36 PM Hard !!! |
@ 2010-08-14 9:15 PM (#1168 - in reply to #1167) (#1168) Top | |
Posts: 460 Country : India | purifire posted @ 2010-08-14 9:15 PM Fred76 - 2010-08-14 8:36 PM Hard !!! Oops Fred.... now you are scaring me |
@ 2010-08-14 9:24 PM (#1169 - in reply to #1167) (#1169) Top | |
Posts: 739 Country : India | vopani posted @ 2010-08-14 9:24 PM Tough set. The puzzles were really nice, especially since I like Match-Makers puzzles. I liked the concept of transfering digits without knowing directly which one goes where, it makes the relay concept more complete :-) Looking forward to results and feedback of others. |
@ 2010-08-14 9:28 PM (#1170 - in reply to #1169) (#1170) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2010-08-14 9:28 PM Rohan, thanks for your comments. Hopefully that will un-scare Rishi. |
@ 2010-08-14 9:35 PM (#1171 - in reply to #1064) (#1171) Top | |
Posts: 40 Country : China | Minfang Lin posted @ 2010-08-14 9:35 PM Thanks for feedback. To Fred: i think you can do better. I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-) |
@ 2010-08-14 9:49 PM (#1172 - in reply to #1064) (#1172) Top | |
Posts: 337 Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2010-08-14 9:49 PM Hard..... but beautiful ! And yes I think I could do better, I've done mistakes ! Fred |
@ 2010-08-14 10:04 PM (#1173 - in reply to #1170) (#1173) Top | |
Posts: 460 Country : India | purifire posted @ 2010-08-14 10:04 PM debmohanty - 2010-08-14 9:28 PM Rohan, thanks for your comments. Hopefully that will un-scare Rishi. Im bad at matchmakers and I dont think anything Rohan said unscares me You are forgetting that now I am a part time Sudokist... I am not even sure I will be able to take 2 hrs away at a stretch |
@ 2010-08-14 10:37 PM (#1174 - in reply to #1173) (#1174) Top | |
Posts: 329 Country : India | neerajmehrotra posted @ 2010-08-14 10:37 PM It can never be worse. First did a mistake in Puzzle No 7 and then carried forward the digits to spoil Puzzle No. 8. In short screwed........... |
@ 2010-08-15 12:41 AM (#1176 - in reply to #1064) (#1176) Top | |
Posts: 1 Country : United States | alien2357 posted @ 2010-08-15 12:41 AM Great set of puzzles. Awfully difficult. I'm glad I was able to participate this time around. Can't always have 2 hours straight to do puzzles, but when I do, it's always FUN! Everyone at LogicMastersIndia should be commended. Your mock tests and other puzzle sets are typically high quality stuff. Thanks! -Allen |
@ 2010-08-15 1:28 AM (#1177 - in reply to #1064) (#1177) Top | |
Posts: 10 Country : Germany | Semax posted @ 2010-08-15 1:28 AM Wow, very nice puzzles. Didn't finish in time but afterwards I have let them meet ;) |
@ 2010-08-15 6:24 AM (#1178 - in reply to #1064) (#1178) Top | |
Posts: 83 Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2010-08-15 6:24 AM Really nice puzzles. Matchmaker part was beautiful. |
@ 2010-08-15 7:28 AM (#1179 - in reply to #1178) (#1179) Top | |
Posts: 774 Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2010-08-15 7:28 AM Overall a nice set of sudokus. The objective was to make Niulang and Zhinv meet, however, both got lost somewhere. The matchmaking logic was beautiful, and unfolded very logically. |
@ 2010-08-15 10:37 AM (#1180 - in reply to #1179) (#1180) Top | |
Posts: 349 Country : India | amitsowani posted @ 2010-08-15 10:37 AM The small point classics were really beautiful and I had never enjoyed solving classic puzzles so much before. I struggled on the higher point ones, maybe there is something that Im missing in solving the more difficult ones. Matchmaker was awesome. It was not too difficult to identify which sudoku goes where. The puzzles were high quality too, especially the anti knight sudoku. I broke the touchy sudoku, else would have had a few more points :( It might have been better if there were more time to solve, or maybe two separate sections, so that people do not have to choose between which section to solve. |
@ 2010-08-15 4:02 PM (#1181 - in reply to #1180) (#1181) Top | |
Posts: 460 Country : India | purifire posted @ 2010-08-15 4:02 PM Amazing set of puzzles.... thoroughly enjoyed them.... Im not sure how amit and Rohan found match makers easy :D I wasted nearly 20 mins trying to resolve them... :) Had a great time solving them nevertheless... |
@ 2010-08-15 4:24 PM (#1182 - in reply to #1171) (#1182) Top | |
Posts: 337 Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2010-08-15 4:24 PM I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-) Although my performance was below my abilities, I would not have been able to make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. I'll be surprised if more than 2 people can achieve this goal. P.S.: I like surprises |
@ 2010-08-15 4:32 PM (#1183 - in reply to #1182) (#1183) Top | |
Posts: 460 Country : India | purifire posted @ 2010-08-15 4:32 PM Fred76 - 2010-08-15 4:24 PM I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-) Although my performance was below my abilities, I would not have been able to make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. I'll be surprised if more than 2 people can achieve this goal. P.S.: I like surprises I agree with you Fred. |
@ 2010-08-15 4:45 PM (#1184 - in reply to #1183) (#1184) Top | |
Posts: 42 Country : Serbia | skywalker posted @ 2010-08-15 4:45 PM I had no problem to identify puzzles in matchmaker (7-8 minutes for all eight), but some of them were really hard to solve and I lost a lot of time on them. Classics were as always from Chinese authors, beautiful & tough. I enjoyed after the test solving puzzles not solved during the test. Thanks for great puzzles Branko |
@ 2010-08-15 5:21 PM (#1185 - in reply to #1184) (#1185) Top | |
Posts: 460 Country : India | purifire posted @ 2010-08-15 5:21 PM skywalker - 2010-08-15 4:45 PM I had no problem to identify puzzles in matchmaker (7-8 minutes for all eight), Branko Wow Branko, That was fast.... It took me 20 mins to identify puzzles in Matchmaker :) Rishi |