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

After a long time I was a competitor on the sudoku test that Deb organize and I really enjoyed...
Congratulations to Prasanna for excellent performance and good luck to Indians in Beijing.

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?	A bit easy
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 Sudoku Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Ignoring the Screen Test, I think we have to go back 3 years (Mastermind Twins) which I organized and you participated.
You had spent so much time on Times Sudoku that I really didn't want to ask you to pre-test this one. Thank you so much for being there all the time.

I take this opportunity to thank the authors for providing some wonderful Sudokus.

Classic Sudokus, Sudo-Kurve, Thermo Sudoku, Arrow Sudoku - Thomas Snyder
Pinocchio Sudoku, Diagonal Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Renban Sudoku - Bastien Vial-Jaime
Smashed Sums Sudoku, Vudoku - Serkan Yurekli

I am indebted to the test solvers - Bram, Gotroch, Matus, Nikola - who gave very significant input and feedback in a really short amount of time.

Thank you everyone for your kind help.

How did you come to know about Indian Sudoku Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in ISC, 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?	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

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

Enjoyed the test as always. Compliments to the authors, thanks for the challenge!

How did you come to know about Indian Sudoku Championship?	Others
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood only a few of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, 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?	A bit hard
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 Sudoku Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

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

Technically this is my first ISC :P The last time I participated was in TSC back in 2007.

Password removed from Sudoku Booklet. Solutions appended at the end.

Hello, is the solution of "Outside Sudoku" correct ?
If so, i do not understand the rules to solve it.
Thanks.

Marco

Good catch. I think that somehow, the Instruction booklet's Outside Sudoku solution has been added here into this puzzle

Fixed now - Download updated version

Thanks for having organized a beautiful test.

Having sudokus from different authors permitted to vary the difficulty and styles. I think I recognized some authors' style while solving a few puzzles (especially kurve, renban, vudoku) but it should have been difficult to "authenticate" authors for all puzzles (I was surprised that the killer was written by Bastien, for example).

This test was a bit particular for me, because my grandmother died sunday, so I was not looking to make a good result, only tried to think of anything else.

Puzzles created by Thomas were really easy for confirmed players. Kurve, thermo and arrow were very nice for beginners or less experienced players, (as there are many for a national championship), and a good sprint for others. (I created a lot of classic sudokus last month, so I could not help noticing the lack of symmetry of the second classic, with 2 digits added on the bottom left. I think it was possible to make a symmetric one with that pattern, without adding the 2 digits, but it's really a tiny detail).

I even didn't notice the theme of the 6*6 irregulars while solving. Nice construction ! Overlapping, shifted and deficit were nice.
Diagonal was a nice construction, with only 18 symetric givens without clue on diagonals and a nice pattern . I liked the logic of killer and renban. I was not fast on smashed sums, but it had a nice logical path, too. GT consecutive had lot of non-consecutive logic in it.
I was stuck for a while in outside sudoku, but that's quite normal as it is worth 115 points.
Like Prasanna, I was stuck in the even killer, but after having spotted the 5 odds in the 1rst column I wasn't able to find the 9 in R3C7, which was quite easy. So I lost at least 10 minutes on that one (I left it and finished to solve it at the end).

Congrats to Prasanna, Rohan and Rishi, Jan and the "pack of hungry Japanese players" and thanks again to the organizers !

Fred

hello, please help me........

Can you specify your problem?

How did you come to know about Indian Sudoku Championship?	I am a regular visitor at LMI forum.
Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

The second classic has diagonal reflective symmetry which is one I certainly count (others may only like spinning their puzzles in place). I was indeed going for a clover leaf with an all even middle and an all odd outside but there are no possible puzzles of this form without another even digit somewhere. Making a stem for the clover was my compromise, along one diagonal axis, as that then kept the very naked single start I had set-up fully preserved.

Edited by motris 2013-08-16 12:24 AM

You are right, it has a diagonal symmetry. Also, I didn't notice the even-odd "game" on this puzzle. Thanks for the explanation

Fred