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Country : India | About Classic Tapa Contest - 2013- Classic Tapa Contest (CTC) is a contest for solving Classic Tapa Puzzles, along with its older sibling "Tapa Variations Contest".
- Everyday a new Tapa will be available to solve. Unlike TVC, all puzzles in CTCs are to be solved online.
- At the end of 5 weeks, a winner will be declared. The winner of CTC will have a title called Classic Tapa Master.
- Top three competitors will win a Tapa puzzle book(*) which is prepared by Serkan.
(*) or any Akil Oyunlari book of choice
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Country : India | CTC Scoring systemThe scoring system and formula are exactly same as last year.- 60 minutes allowed to solve the Tapa puzzle after you start
- 2 minutes penalty for each wrong submission
- 15% time penalty for each late day (maximum 2 late days are allowed – so a puzzle can be solved upto 72 hours after it is uploaded)
- Each puzzle has its own points, which is computed from solving times of top 10% players on that day.
- Each player gets points for solving a puzzle based on own solving time and others’ solving times. Exponential distribution is used.
- Total points for a player is sum of puzzle points over 35days.
Details in the pdf file Download | View
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Country : India | Like last year, we have provided 10 trial puzzles (16-Aug to 25 Aug).
There is no change in the solving interface, except that the number of steps you can undo back is limited. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | so this time again do indian top 3 will be getting prizes ?
Administrator - 2013-08-23 10:20 AM
Top three competitors will win a Tapa puzzle book(*) which is prepared by Serkan.(*) or any Akil Oyunlari book of choice
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2013-08-23 9:43 PM swaroop2011 - 2013-08-23 9:29 PM
so this time again do indian top 3 will be getting prizes ?
Administrator - 2013-08-23 10:20 AM
Top three competitors will win a Tapa puzzle book(*) which is prepared by Serkan.(*) or any Akil Oyunlari book of choice
And swiss top3 ?
Haha ! |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2013-08-23 9:46 PM Administrator - 2013-08-23 11:03 AM
Like last year, we have provided 10 trial puzzles (16-Aug to 25 Aug).
There is no change in the solving interface, except that the number of steps you can undo back is limited.
Cool, first on my birthday puzzle. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Fred76 - 2013-08-23 9:43 PM
And swiss top3 ?
Haha ! Interestingly, the Swiss top 3 were same as the Swiss bottom 3 in last year's CTC. |
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ksun48
Posts: 29
Country : Canada | ksun48 posted @ 2013-08-24 3:00 AM When I use the review feature, sometimes a few cells are not blackened at the end of the review, which are supposed to be blackened. This isn't a big deal, but it's a small bug. |
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muhorka
Posts: 13
Country : Slovakia | muhorka posted @ 2013-08-25 1:39 AM I have only small feedback, but submit button should be better placed, for example next to a puzzle. For faster submitting puzzle... |
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Country : India | ksun48 - 2013-08-24 3:00 AM
When I use the review feature, sometimes a few cells are not blackened at the end of the review, which are supposed to be blackened. This isn't a big deal, but it's a small bug. Yes, that is a bug, existing since last year. Didn't think it is important enough to fix.
muhorka - 2013-08-25 1:39 AM
I have only small feedback, but submit button should be better placed, for example next to a puzzle. For faster submitting puzzle... Agree with you. We needed the solving space to be as big as possible. So put all the buttons / colors / stars into left of the grid. The only thing I can say is "the submit button is equally far for everyone" |
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Country : India | About the Comments featurePlease note that, as you might already have noticed, comments for a day's Tapa can be viewed only by players who have already solved the puzzle. So feel free to add any kind of comments about the puzzle, without worrying about revealing about the puzzle to other competitors.
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sanket.saxena
Posts: 48
Country : India | I am not able to submit |
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Country : India | sanket.saxena - 2013-08-26 4:53 PM
I am not able to submit Please specify any error OR any screenshot. |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | Unable to view results |
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cutechikky2000
Posts: 2
Country : India | please help me to know how to play tapa in brief
i keep getting this error "Solution is wrong. All 'Black cells' must be marked."
Edited by cutechikky2000 2013-08-26 10:58 PM
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2013-08-27 12:05 AM When will the Scoring Page displayed. Will it consider top 10% players in the first day alone or the three days, when a puzzle is available. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | cutechikky2000 - 2013-08-26 10:58 PM
please help me to know how to play tapa in brief
i keep getting this error "Solution is wrong. All 'Black cells' must be marked."
I suggest posting the image of a sample Tapa (25th and before ) here on the forum so that someone can correct your solution and explain why.
In brief, the best I can do for now is direct you to these patterns - http://rohanrao.blogspot.in/2011/03/solving-tapa-elementary-beginni... to understand how the clue cells work. Other than that just make sure that all shaded cells are connected, and there's no 2x2 region entirely shaded. |
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FoxFireX
Posts: 35
Country : United States | Minor note on the interface, when you press the Clear button, it says "Clear is undoable. Press 'Control' while clicking 'Clear' if you really want to clear the grid". Shouldn't that actually be "Clear is NOT undoable"? |
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Country : India | FoxFireX - 2013-08-27 9:02 AM
Minor note on the interface, when you press the Clear button, it says "Clear is undoable. Press 'Control' while clicking 'Clear' if you really want to clear the grid". Shouldn't that actually be "Clear is NOT undoable"? Huh... bad typo. |
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Country : India | Tapa Grid Sizes for Week 1We have decided to post the Tapa grid sizes in advance. Every Sunday, we will post the grid sizes for next week puzzles.
For this week, the sizes for remaining days are
28-Aug : 10X10
29-Aug : 10X10
30-Aug : 9X9
31-Aug : 8X8
1-Sep : 12X12
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2013-08-27 12:44 PM Is the Results Page enabled. I see only the message stating that it will be displayed CTC starts on Aug 26. |
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Country : India | rvarun - 2013-08-27 12:44 PM
Is the Results Page enabled. I see only the message stating that it will be displayed CTC starts on Aug 26. It is not yet. Sorry. |
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Country : India | rvarun - 2013-08-27 12:05 AM
When will the Scoring Page displayed. Will it consider top 10% players in the first day alone or the three days, when a puzzle is available. Across 3 days. |
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