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Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2013-08-05 7:06 PM
2 things -
In overlapping Sudoku - Do we assume that the overlap will be "clean" like the IB example, or is it possible that it will cut into boxes? (e.g. I think the one at the WSC in 2012 had just 2 rows/columns that weren't overlapping, instead of 3 as in the example) It will be exactly same layout. The organisers have decided not to throw surprises after the IPC.
prasanna16391 - 2013-08-05 7:06 PM
Answer keys - Again, in Overlapping Sudoku, I assume that the non-overlap parts will also need to be entered, making the key possibly longer than 9 digits? Also, in Smashed Sums Sudoku, how should the black/blank cells be denoted in the key?
Answer key for Overlapping Sudoku can be 9 digits or 12 digits.
Smashed Sums Sudoku : Enter X for black cells, although you will also be awarded points if you enter anything like 0 or - |
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Dileep Singh
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Country : India | There is no option to mark 7 in smashed sums sudoku.
instead there are two options to mark X and .
which i think both to mark blank cells. Please check it. |
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Country : India | Dileep Singh - 2013-08-09 11:48 AM
There is no option to mark 7 in smashed sums sudoku.
instead there are two options to mark X and .
which i think both to mark blank cells. Please check it.
Fixed. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Dileep Singh - 2013-08-09 11:48 AM
instead there are two options to mark X and .
I think this is there for a reason. You can mark black cells with X and mark a . for where you think a number should be (as in, not black ) and that marking will certainly help in solving this one. |
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Dileep Singh
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Country : India | Ohh..i got it.
How to approach a Greater Than Consecutive Sudoku? |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Dileep Singh - 2013-08-09 2:26 PM
Ohh..i got it.
How to approach a Greater Than Consecutive Sudoku?
Its important in general to remember the converse rule. Wherever the sign isn't there, treat it like a non-consecutive Sudoku. |
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Dileep Singh
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Country : India | Thanks PS..:) |
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debmohanty
Country : India | prasanna16391's 500th post Congratulations on your blue star |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | debmohanty - 2013-08-09 2:49 PM
Congratulations on your blue star
Thanks 
I just checked the submission page. There seem to be points assigned to each Sudoku there. Since these aren't updated into the IB, I assume these aren't the final/official points distribution? |
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deepika m
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Country : India | what is sudo-kurve?not getting it. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | deepika m - 2013-08-09 3:49 PM
what is sudo-kurve?not getting it.
There are 9 distinct digits in each 3 groups of 3 cells that are connected by gray lines. Example of this - The first row of the top left box, the 3rd column of the middle box and the first row of the bottom right box are connected by a bending gray line, and so there need to be all digits from 1-9 in those 9 cells. |
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macherlakumar
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Country : India | deepika m - 2013-08-09 3:49 PM
what is sudo-kurve?not getting it. This might help you in understanding.  (Sudo-Kurve.png)Attachments ----------------  Sudo-Kurve.png (25KB - 6 downloads) |
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purifire
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Country : India | Good demo macherla :)
rishi |
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deepika m
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Country : India | still not getting it.my doubt is whether it's a 9x9 sudoku or not. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | deepika m - 2013-08-09 4:41 PM
still not getting it.my doubt is whether it's a 9x9 sudoku or not.
I suppose it is more of a free-form type but the range will always be 1-9 as in the example. The example has just 3 boxes, but it has in all 6 different sets of 1-9 as Ravi pointed out. If you google Sudo-kurve you'll see many other possible layouts, the base theory in all being that there are such sets of 1-9 formed by the connecting gray lines. |
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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2013-08-09 5:37 PM Hi!
In smashed sums sudoku,can the shaded cells be orthogonally adjacent?It is not explicitly stated in the rules that they can't be.So i assume they might be when a sum is not given?!Also in the example puzzle i dont see that case happening as all row and column sums have been given already/// |
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debmohanty
Country : India | kishy72 - 2013-08-09 5:37 PM
Hi!
In smashed sums sudoku,can the shaded cells be orthogonally adjacent?It is not explicitly stated in the rules that they can't be.So i assume they might be when a sum is not given?!Also in the example puzzle i dont see that case happening as all row and column sums have been given already/// Firstly, unlike the example, there will be some rows or columns without any outside clue in the actual puzzle.
If there is no clue, it just means there is no restriction on the shaded cells in that row / column. They could be adjacent or not be adjacent, in that row / column.
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purifire
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Country : India | deepika m - 2013-08-09 4:41 PM
still not getting it.my doubt is whether it's a 9x9 sudoku or not.
Deepika, not all sudokus need to be 9x9. There are so many variants which do not conform to this design. For example, Isosudoku, Snowflake sudoku. The only constraint we need to remember is that the digits do not repeat along the path denoted by the grey lines.
Rishi |
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Administrator
Country : India | Points table published
The Instructions Booklet now has the points table (Page 3 )
Other additions in Instructions Booklet
1 ) Bonus, Tie Breaker (Page 3 )
2 ) Smashed Sums Sudoku - X should be entered for blacken cells (Page 11 )
3 ) Solutions (Pages 14 - 16 )
Link : http://logicmastersindia.com/2013/ISC/
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2013-08-10 2:17 PM One question related to 6x6 Sudoku point distribution. Will the 100 points given only when all the 6x6 Sudoku solved correctly or each given mini Sudoku will have some points assigned to it?
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Country : India | rajeshk - 2013-08-10 2:17 PM
One question related to 6x6 Sudoku point distribution. Will the 100 points given only when all the 6x6 Sudoku solved correctly or each given mini Sudoku will have some points assigned to it?
They are all independent of each other. Points are assigned to each of them. You get points for what you solve.
If you have logged in at the submission site, you would have noticed that there are 6 of them, and the points are as shown below.
(Top ) 5 + 10
(Middle ) 15 + 25
(Bottom ) 25 + 20 |
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tnv
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Country : India | tnv posted @ 2013-08-10 4:56 PM prasanna16391 - 2013-08-09 2:31 PM
Dileep Singh - 2013-08-09 2:26 PM
Ohh..i got it.
How to approach a Greater Than Consecutive Sudoku?
Its important in general to remember the converse rule. Wherever the sign isn't there, treat it like a non-consecutive Sudoku.
Thanks for the tip. Was very helpful.
--TNV |
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purifire
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Country : India | I had a question on the Bonus points. It says that all answers with a maximum of 4 wrong cells will get the bonus of 7 points per minute saved. Now I assume the 4 cells are related to the answer keys that we key in. So do we get full points for a puzzle if we key in a wrong answer with a digit mistyped or do we get partial points or 0 points for the puzzle yet eligible for time bonus?
Rishi
Edited by purifire 2013-08-10 5:25 PM
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debmohanty
Country : India | purifire - 2013-08-10 5:16 PM
I had a question on the Bonus points. It says that all answers with a maximum of 4 wrong cells will get the bonus of 7 points per minute saved. Now I assume the 4 cells are related to the answer keys that we key in. So do we get full points for a puzzle if we key in a wrong answer with a digit mistyped or do we get partial points or 0 points for the puzzle yet eligible for time bonus?
Rishi 0 for the puzzle, but still eligible for time bonus.
Note that, partial points will only be given in exceptional cases (e.g. the typo is on a given clue ) |
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Administrator
Country : India | Sudoku booklet upload 1) Password protected Sudoku booklet has 11 pages. There is no cover page or points table.
2) Each page has 2 Sudokus, except page 3 which has 6 6X6 Sudokus, page 4 which has Overlapping Sudoku, page 11 which has Outside Sudoku
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