Congrats guys.. all the best for WPC.. :-)

Thanks Swaroop, Rakesh, rvarun and Admin :P

Congrats to Amit, Rajesh and Rohan for making the team :)

I'll post my reactions in a while..

Congratulations PS. A very well deserved victory. Your challenges have just started.

You can now view each others' scores.

International players should be using the unofficial/complete score page.

How did you come to know about Indian Puzzle Championship?	LMI email
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

The score page doesn't seem to work yet?

Congrats Prasanna, Amit, Rajesh, Rohan.
The "R - Trend" is finally broken

Regards,
Ravi

Edited by macherlakumar 2013-07-07 8:19 PM

It was down for a while to fix Bonus Points. Please check now.

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

Congrats PS. Awesome performance. Well Done the other 3 stalwarts.... Looks a formidable Team India for the WPC. Best possible team...

Rishi

Congratulations PS, Amit, Rajesh and Rohan !!
A strong team, formidable top 4 !!

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

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?	I have a different complaint

How did you come to know about Indian Puzzle Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

A: Odd one out: I completely missed, that I was supposed to find a wrong answer, given that the other A puzzles was about to find the correct solution. I know it was my fault not to have read the rules carefully enough, but it could have been described more clearly.

How did you come to know about Indian Puzzle Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Missing letters and Multiple choice were doable even for novice. It is good to have some doable puzzles to keep up the morale and the participant's interest. For other puzzles I still have a long way to go. Overall it was a good mix of puzzles.

Right then, thanks to all the others who have congratulated, I'll jot down a few thoughts.

First, my personal viewpoint. The quality of puzzles were absolutely amazing in general this year. I really liked so many puzzles. I was planning to post a detailed review on my blog, but that can't be done till the international participants are done, so here's a quick overview -

A1 : This was run of the mill/as expected, but I still managed to make a goof (my only uncorrected goof) on the 3rd one, where I calculated 4 of them and didn't bother with the 5th one and went for the progression-odd one with the 7.

A2 : I thought this was a nice little way to use multiple choice.

B1, B2 : I do like big sizes of these. B1 was one of my favorites in the set, just took a while to find where the main break in was, and then there was no pausing. B2 was pretty easy for me, just about not confusing the 1x3 areas.

C : I don't usually like Battleships puzzles, but these two were beautifully made, even if the second one was a little intuitive while speed solving. The trick I used with the second one, after using the 3 row making 2-segment ships impossible everywhere else, to just see that there's a real limit to get in all the ships and also satisfy all the clues remaining.

D : Turns out I was spot on here with my practice puzzles. I'm sure I'd have loved the 3-star star battle especially too if it weren't for me thinking of it during practice already. The puzzle itself was tougher than practice though, a nice challenge figuring out the intricacies of the top few rows after the obvious parts around the bottom.

E : The classic was nice and easy, and so was the Sudoku skyscrapers for me, maybe there's a pause when only 1, 2 and 4 are left around the grid, but I got through it using the Irregular Sudoku tactics and just marking stars and circles for instances across the grid till I reached a contradiction. The theme was nicely done with the 3s.

F : Black and White Loop was one of my favorites. The usual tricks, but nicely done all the same. Black White and Grey featured one of my worst in-test moments when I saw I somehow made 2 loops the first time! Went back and re-did it, saw my error, and done easily after. The double-turn-avoiding logic was used nicely here.

G : I absolutely loved both Kakuros. Maybe my favorite page of the test personally. spotting the 6789 quadruple in Column 9 in G1 was a nice moment, I hope that was the intended path. The Pentomino Kakuro was a nice idea with the pieces. It made M have a very very limited space and that was the major break-in, but even after placement, the Kakuro part was challenging too, which I suppose is the main reason for it being well worth the high points.

H : H1 was kind of that "expected surprise" feeling. It was a nice enough puzzle, but these are not to my personal taste, so difficult to get excited for. The end logic with some of it being similar sequences was a nice shortcut, in case someone missed it. This puzzle also included the second of my big in-test scares - I realized a little later that I had forgotten to consider the diagonals! Luckily, got back and got it done. H2 was easy enough as they go. Just went totally intuitive on that one wherever I saw the possibility to fill in and get a word.

I : Tapa's generally one of my favorite genres, and these were really nice too, especially Tapa Difference. 0's my favorite clue in that variant, so, yay! The Tapa was a 40 second solve for me and about a minute and a half on Difference, pencil barely left the paper on the classic. But thats one of my strong types and I'm glad I made it count.

J : The Corridors puzzle was one of my favorites too. Nicely done theme, nice logical path, some fairly obvious starts with some thinking on the top right and the bottom left. The need to "fit out" paths of the circles (if this path goes this way, there's no space for that one) dominated most of the solve. Happy Dots was as I expected after creating the corresponding practice puzzle, not really any new tricks, which is fine by the points assigned, and still a fun workout.

K : Tents was my next favorite page after Kakuro. I don't usually get the logic in tents, but I seem to have improved in spotting that. The basic tricks were used nicely with some combination ones (the kind of chain reaction that gets caused from tree to tree by placing a tent in a certain cell).

L : Nurikabe was easy. Solved many with these reachability tricks in them by now. Only slight pause was around the right and figuring out how to avoid a 2x2 forming with just 1 cell of the 6 being able to reach right-ward. Snake Egg was superbly done. After getting the 3, 4 done, I got a bit intuitive on this one, with the 8 in the bottom right, went wrong once and figured out how it has to go upwards, after that it was quick.

M : Slitherlink was gorgeous to look at :P A bit troublesome to solve the narrow middle area in competition mode though. Took a good 10-12 minutes on this, simply because of that. Crosslink was easy enough. I was almost expecting that last extension at the bottom to satisfy the 1 clue. Its just the kind of thing I might have missed last year.

I finished all of these with about 8-10 minutes left I think, so went backwards checking, and spotted errors in H1 (had eliminated a sequence by mistake and luckily saw that there's 2 sequences that are the same where I've crossed out one and ticked the other) and C2 (Extended a 3 ship to 4 cells. oops), fixed them, and was just reaching A1 and would probably have fixed that too when time was up.

Overall, wonderful experience, and I'm glad to have not lost out because of that A1 goof. On a slightly negative note, I'd like to say that my general opinion was that this test maybe contains too many twisty puzzles for newcomers. I get that Slitherlink and Hidden words are the only obvious twists, but to a newcomer, a Kakuro without sums, or a Pentomino Kakuro without Pentomino shapes, or a 9x9 Easy as ABC is still quite a twist and a leap. Its enjoyable for a solver like me, but I'm just wondering how newcomers might feel who probably jotted down things like Slitherlink, Kakuro, Easy as ABC as stuff they can tackle easily before thinking of the rest.

But overall, thanks to the organizers and authors for a wonderful Championship! The Indian team looks quite good this time, and hopefully we can improve on last year.

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

Hi Admins,

I was busy solving the IPC and did not notice the submission time. I submitted the puzzle at 16:50 IST.
I would be grateful if you could consider my submission as it is my first time at IPC and I would really like to know my standing with all the established players


Thanks in advance

Prateek Gupta

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?	Fairly Nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How did you come to know about Indian Puzzle Championship?	WPF site
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

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

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

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

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

How did you come to know about Indian Puzzle Championship?	LMI email
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles.
After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely