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yureklis
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Country : Turkey | tamz29 - 2013-08-24 12:41 AM
Tapa clones: are clue cells white?
Yes, clues are white cells. I noted that, but I forgot to add the instruction. I'll add it to puzzle booklet. Thanks Tawan. |
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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2013-08-27 5:35 AM I assume puzzle #5 is meant to be called Cyclic Tapa instead of Cylic Tapa? |
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Para's Puzzle Site
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | In Logirace for Tapa bottom solution given as 13345. Pl let me know where I am wrong. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
 
Country : India | devarajand - 2013-08-28 1:11 PM
In Logirace for Tapa bottom solution given as 13345. Pl let me know where I am wrong.
Can you post an image with your progress? Its difficult to say where you're wrong without knowing how much you've solved.  |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | Unable to attach my file too large.
Ans;
W3B3W3B
WBWB3WBWB
2BW3BWBWB
B4W5B
BW4B2WBW
BWB2W5B
BWB4WBWB
BWBW4BWB
3BWB3W2B
4W5BW |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | I think your solution is right, but maybe your understanding of the Answer Key is off? If you see the Instruction booklet example, you are supposed to enter longest number of connected cells. Here connected means connected by the loop. If you actually draw the loop within your shaded wall, then you'll see the correct answer key - 13345 as given. |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | Thanks for your clarification. |
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | Some notes:
Cyclic Tapa: "Similar shapes within a puzzle do not have to necessarily have to contain the same clues" [WB]
Tapa In The Cave: "It could be worth putting an exception to the "Tapa rule" at the beginning of the document that this puzzle is an exception to the 'There are no wall segments on cells containing numbers' condition." [WB]
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Country : India | | | AnnouncementsPassword protected puzzle has 11 pages (including a cover page with points table)
Time bonus will be computed after you click 'Claim Bonus'
Penalty will be given irrespective of correctness of submission
Contest Length : 75 minutes
Total Points : 1000
Bonus : 4 points per minute saved (Computed upto seconds)
Grace Period : 5 minutes
Penalty : 9 points per minute used (Computed upto seconds)
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Country : India | Link to score page : http://logicmastersindia.com/TVC/XIV/score.asp
Please note feedback page is enabled - Same set of questions as usual LMI tests.
A note : We found that a particular player has rated all the puzzles even before taking the test, even giving different ratings to different puzzles of same type. Such ratings will be ignored without warning. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Wonderful Puzzles. I think thats the first time I've finished a TVC? Cool.  |
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kiwijam
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Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2013-09-01 4:09 PM Well done Prasanna! (and of course the sugoi Japanese competitors!) I'm a minute behind you and also very pleased to finish for a change.
I didn't know there was a Claim Bonus button, I haven't been in that situation before. Although now I see it mentioned in the Announcements panel. Doesn't matter, it's quite tiny in my case, and would spoil my nice round score.
Great puzzles. I was never intending to do #8 "Tapa or no tapa", because the practice puzzles required too much thought. That is one of the 'advantages' of not being good enough to finish, we don't have to do them all! But unfortunately(?) I was forced to try it at the end, and actually really enjoyed Serkan's approach. Thank you! :-) |
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | kiwijam - 2013-09-01 4:09 PM
Well done Prasanna! (and of course the sugoi Japanese competitors!) I'm a minute behind you and also very pleased to finish for a change.
I didn't know there was a Claim Bonus button, I haven't been in that situation before. Although now I see it mentioned in the Announcements panel. Doesn't matter, it's quite tiny in my case, and would spoil my nice round score.
Great puzzles. I was never intending to do #8 "Tapa or no tapa", because the practice puzzles required too much thought. That is one of the 'advantages' of not being good enough to finish, we don't have to do them all! But unfortunately(?) I was forced to try it at the end, and actually really enjoyed Serkan's approach. Thank you! :-)
I saw some of your submission times, honestly I wondered what you would do for 3-4 puzzles in last 10-15 minutes, then I watched at the admin panel. Except for the Pentapa (b ), others were easy, and you did smoothly all of them. When you didn't "push the button", I thought you were checking your submissions : )
About Tapa Or Not Tapa, first version of this puzzle had so many clues. I was thinking that it shouldn't be like this. So I made again, and my intention was to construct with a few clues, so 0-1 seemed very suitable for it.
I'm really glad that so many solvers complete the test. I can balance difficulty easier than previous year, because William's solving times are incredibly helpful. If he can complete the test nearly 65-70 minutes, so many solvers can repeat the same. So I've stuck to his solving times for balancing the whole test difficulty. Normally, balancing whole test difficulty one tester's times not enough, if you make so many solvers happy. Also tester solving skills don’t have to be same. So the designer needs to get more than one's times. But this is not case for William's. I hope that he can find time for rest of the TVC.
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bskbri
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Country : Turkey | bskbri posted @ 2013-09-01 8:31 PM | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Ayse Naz'a derslerinde basarilar dileriz. Edited by bskbri 2013-09-01 8:32 PM
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yureklis
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Country : Turkey | bskbri - 2013-09-01 8:31 PM
Ayse Naz'a derslerinde basarilar dileriz.
: ) Ayse Naz is my nephew. She is 5.5 years old, and she is going to start the primary school two weeks later,1st-grade : ) |
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xevs
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Country : Japan | xevs posted @ 2013-09-01 9:53 PM | 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 did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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kiwijam
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Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2013-09-02 4:18 AM yureklis - 2013-09-01 11:49 PMI saw some of your submission times, honestly I wondered what you would do for 3-4 puzzles in last 10-15 minutes, then I watched at the admin panel. Except for the Pentapa (b), others were easy, and you did smoothly all of them. When you didn't "push the button", I thought you were checking your submissions :) Yes, I always save small puzzles for the end, because I don't want to be halfway through a large puzzle when time runs out. And I found all the puzzles smooth this time, it's nice to watch them fall without getting stuck on one.You were right, I was checking my submissions. Which took a couple of minutes, and that finished inside the Grace Period (there is no point to claiming a bonus then ). It surprises me that only one of the current finishers (= Ko ) checked answers (unless perhaps the others made a correction before finishing ). And there were 10+ people with a #correct of 15/16... |
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| An LMI player posted @ 2013-09-02 5:21 AM | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2013-09-02 8:13 AM That Wordic Tapa clarification would have made preparing the practise puzzle so much easier. |
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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2013-09-02 9:19 AM kiwijam - 2013-09-02 4:18 AM
yureklis - 2013-09-01 11:49 PMI saw some of your submission times, honestly I wondered what you would do for 3-4 puzzles in last 10-15 minutes, then I watched at the admin panel. Except for the Pentapa (b), others were easy, and you did smoothly all of them. When you didn't "push the button", I thought you were checking your submissions :) Yes, I always save small puzzles for the end, because I don't want to be halfway through a large puzzle when time runs out. And I found all the puzzles smooth this time, it's nice to watch them fall without getting stuck on one.You were right, I was checking my submissions. Which took a couple of minutes, and that finished inside the Grace Period (there is no point to claiming a bonus then ). It surprises me that only one of the current finishers (= Ko ) checked answers (unless perhaps the others made a correction before finishing ). And there were 10+ people with a #correct of 15/16...
I always write out my answer keys after solving a puzzle and then recheck when entering these days. So the checking goes in with the entering instead of afterwards as I notice that afterwards I really never feel for checking answer keys, but during entering I am more diligent.
Thanks Serkan, it was a fun set. Most of it went smoothly, except for having to restart part of the Cyclic as I entered a clue from a triangle into a circle. That was bound to happen considering I can't even manage to put the symbols in the same place in different grids when constructing. |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2013-09-02 9:59 AM yureklis - 2013-09-01 4:49 PM
About Tapa Or Not Tapa, first version of this puzzle had so many clues. I was thinking that it shouldn't be like this. So I made again, and my intention was to construct with a few clues, so 0-1 seemed very suitable for it.
Yeah I noticed that too. That's why I went with all the squares of clues so a bunch of Tapa clues would at least be forced true and would be able to influence the solve a bit. |
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ukonet
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Country : Turkey | ukonet posted @ 2013-09-02 3:35 PM | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too few puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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