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@ 2013-08-31 5:03 AM (#12513 - in reply to #12168) (#12513)Quote Reply Top

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Comments on 2013-08-28's Tapa
carljohan commented at 2013-08-28 10:14:49
As an unexperienced Tapa solver, I tend to not react to the connectedness condition of the wall. Guess I can halve my times once I get used to that :)
debmohanty commented at 2013-08-28 10:20:17
@carljohan, you still have impressive timings.
macherlakumar commented at 2013-08-28 12:25:23
Not a hard puzzle but paid the penalty(time to fix) for incorrect shading at the bottom.
@ 2013-09-01 12:17 AM (#12523 - in reply to #12168) (#12523)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-01 12:17 AM

Comments on 2013-08-29's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-08-29 00:15:17
Every time I review this one I like it more. Funny how that works. But as an author, I can appreciate the little limitations caused by the clues around the grid (a bunch of 1s are obviously gonna limit the middle)
rob commented at 2013-08-29 00:24:21
Great puzzle. Took me far too long to realize that a 33 neighbouring a 1 has consequences not just for the 33 but also for the 1. Then it was smooth.
rajeshk commented at 2013-08-29 16:28:44
Very good design. Took me some to time to get around 1s.
carljohan commented at 2013-08-29 20:29:08
Nice puzzle :)
tamz29 commented at 2013-08-31 22:20:49
Reminds me of minesweepers :) Top score :)
yureklis commented at 2013-08-31 22:28:50
Yes, you are right about minesweeper. This was my intention, actually it nicely worked.
@ 2013-09-01 10:47 AM (#12528 - in reply to #12523) (#12528)Quote Reply Top

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Administrator posted @ 2013-09-01 10:47 AM

Tapa player has been upgraded with 2 changes
1) Left click to unshade a cell now works consistently. (Ref : See Gareth's comment on 30-Aug)
2) There is no limit on number of Undos.
@ 2013-09-01 11:01 AM (#12529 - in reply to #12168) (#12529)Quote Reply Top

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Administrator posted @ 2013-09-01 11:01 AM

Tapa Grid Sizes for Week 2



For this week, the sizes of Tapa grid are
2-Sep : 10X10
3-Sep : 8X8
4-Sep : 15X15
5-Sep : 10X10
6-Sep : 10X10
7-Sep : 10X10
8-Sep : 10X10

@ 2013-09-02 1:08 AM (#12535 - in reply to #12529) (#12535)Quote Reply Top

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RALehrer posted @ 2013-09-02 1:08 AM

Administrator - 2013-09-01 9:47 PM

Tapa player has been upgraded with 2 changes
1) Left click to unshade a cell now works consistently. (Ref : See Gareth's comment on 30-Aug)
2) There is no limit on number of Undos.


Thank you!

Edited by RALehrer 2013-09-02 1:09 AM
@ 2013-09-02 5:37 AM (#12539 - in reply to #12168) (#12539)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-02 5:37 AM

Comments on 2013-08-30's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-08-30 00:22:08
Ouch. brain freeze. Beautiful puzzle, but maybe a little bit hard for an online interface solve. I found some of it by quickly trying one way, something that'd be easier to "mark" on paper. Went back and solved it to confirm I got the logic of the harder parts.
swaroop2011 commented at 2013-08-30 04:02:30
awesome one :)
gareth commented at 2013-08-30 04:44:59
I wish that it was possible to unshade cells reliably. It just does not work properly in Chrome. Most of the time the click is ignored. You also can't drag to unselect. This bug was present last year too. It flickers, so it presumably is double-responding to the click event.
MellowMelon commented at 2013-08-30 07:07:23
gareth: try to get in the habit of right clicking to erase.
kiwijam commented at 2013-08-30 09:58:40
I had the same problem as Gareth, right-clicking doesn't help. Basically, if you don't spot the perfect path on this puzzle then you need to have a guess to move towards the solution. So I change colour and continue. But when the guess is wrong, I can only press Undo 8 times (new change since last year), but there's still cells containing my second colour that I don't want any more. How do I get rid of it? There's no eraser. No command to clear a cell. Just lots of clicking, not so fun.
carljohan commented at 2013-08-30 15:42:47
Agree with most of the above. Hard to erase, especially in Chrome. How about a way to erase all cells of one color? Isn't that the purpose of the colors in the first place?
ksun48 commented at 2013-08-31 01:03:50
I feel like that encourages bifurcation too much though.
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Para posted @ 2013-09-02 8:12 AM

There's something clearly wrong with reviewing solves today for me. I think that dragged cells get shaded and subsequently unshaded in the applet.

Edited by Para 2013-09-02 8:12 AM
@ 2013-09-04 12:19 AM (#12573 - in reply to #12168) (#12573)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-04 12:19 AM

Comments on 2013-09-01's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-01 00:09:58
Absolutely beautiful. 10+.
yureklis commented at 2013-09-01 00:22:05
After your comment I couldn't remember which Tapa is. So I solved again, frankly I like too. There are some nice things.
swaroop2011 commented at 2013-09-01 00:31:55
awesome puzzle. :) and the brilliant one :)
carljohan commented at 2013-09-01 10:55:31
Mainly based on one "trick" in the upper right, but the patterns that arise are quite nice.
@ 2013-09-04 4:14 AM (#12574 - in reply to #12168) (#12574)Quote Reply Top

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zachpuzzle posted @ 2013-09-04 4:14 AM

I tried reviewing the recent tapa, but it didn't have a valid solution at the end, it had squares missing
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devarajand posted @ 2013-09-04 8:51 AM

Able to finish
@ 2013-09-05 12:05 AM (#12583 - in reply to #12168) (#12583)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-05 12:05 AM

Comments on 2013-09-02's Tapa
macherlakumar commented at 2013-09-03 17:14:32
Cute puzzle.
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debmohanty posted @ 2013-09-05 12:10 AM

So, major shake-ups in top 10 after yesterday's Tapa. Really happy to see PS at 5th. Good job PS.
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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-05 12:14 AM

debmohanty - 2013-09-05 12:10 AM

So, major shake-ups in top 10 after yesterday's Tapa. Really happy to see PS at 5th. Good job PS.


Thanks! Still kicking myself for getting a mistake on the first day. Funny that I was one of the most inconsistent last year and have started out really consistently this time (except that first day of course)
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ankiit_007 posted @ 2013-09-05 10:09 PM

Can anyone please give me link to some more classical tapa puzzle pages as I can't find it on google too......also of last year CTC.
@ 2013-09-06 12:12 AM (#12596 - in reply to #12168) (#12596)Quote Reply Top

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Comments on 2013-09-03's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-03 00:21:26
Nice intricate patterns even with the small size.
yureklis commented at 2013-09-03 00:50:48
Last night I changed this one. Previous one was very easy, I wasn't satisfied with it. I wanted to make a little bit disturbing Tapa in small size. I made this one, altough I spent much time than making a similar size Tapa, I couldn't do it what exactly I wanted. Because there is a crack of the structure in the left of the grid, 1/2s.
macherlakumar commented at 2013-09-03 15:08:39
Puzzle is good, after the competition I solved again (usually I do that for every puzzle) and I saw that left bottom1/2 and right top 1/3 are places where uniquness can be used to solve. The puzzle can be solved logically without using uniquness and I have solved this using some guess work.
muhorka commented at 2013-09-03 15:17:46
Nice puzzle, but in this one was better use uniquness that normal logic. But it still solvable without this fact.
carljohan commented at 2013-09-03 18:30:16
Couldn't solve this without guessing...
@ 2013-09-06 12:16 AM (#12597 - in reply to #12592) (#12597)Quote Reply Top

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-06 12:16 AM

ankiit_007 - 2013-09-05 10:09 PM

Can anyone please give me link to some more classical tapa puzzle pages as I can't find it on google too......also of last year CTC.


Here's last year's CTC link

You'll also be able to find Tapa among other puzzles on various blogs like mine/Serkan's/Palmer's etc. or on the Grandmaster Puzzles website.
@ 2013-09-07 12:03 AM (#12609 - in reply to #12168) (#12609)Quote Reply Top

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Comments on 2013-09-04's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-04 00:09:32
A little difficult to start with. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so stubborn to not use uniqueness logic and actually see where the connectivity breaks. At least I didn't make a mistake on a big puzzle again like the first day.
macherlakumar commented at 2013-09-04 00:19:58
Honestly started at a point where I did not deduce any logic to shade it. Solved most of puzzle on guess work and intuition. Too hard puzzle for me, should solve it logically now.
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-04 00:25:16
Actually I looked back and tried to spot another break-in. Is R3C6 the only break-in? Quite a nice one, but makes it a little narrow. I'll probably have to go and see others' solves and how they've done it.
yureklis commented at 2013-09-04 00:43:22
Yes, it is difficult, but some of 35 Tapas must be difficult. This one is one of them. I planned to hide the starting point, I think it's done. You should consider these clues together: R2C5 + R3C7 + R4C6 (This is a clue pattern that I discovered recently). Then you can complete the puzzle smoothly.
macherlakumar commented at 2013-09-04 00:44:55
Just now solved it logically. R3C6 is the break-in (coincidentally this is where I started R4C7 just diagonal) where I found the solving path to progress quickly. After that it is all about connectivity. Brilliantly constructed with more difficulty level. 10+ :)
gareth commented at 2013-09-04 06:19:38
Too hard for me, but that's probably just me and not a criticism of the puzzle.
@ 2013-09-07 12:13 PM (#12612 - in reply to #12168) (#12612)Quote Reply Top

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Administrator posted @ 2013-09-07 12:13 PM

Tapa Grid Sizes for Week 3



For this week, the sizes of Tapa grid are
Sep 9 : 12X12
Sep 10 : 10X10
Sep 11 : 18X18
Sep 12 : 19X19
Sep 13 : 20X20
Sep 14 : 14X14
Sep 15 : 15X15


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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-07 12:21 PM

Administrator - 2013-09-07 12:13 PM

Sep 9 : 12X12
Sep 10 : 10X10
Sep 11 : 18X18
Sep 12 : 19X19
Sep 13 : 20X20
Sep 14 : 14X14
Sep 15 : 15X15




Wooohooo! Marathon time! :P
@ 2013-09-07 2:38 PM (#12616 - in reply to #12168) (#12616)Quote Reply Top

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-07 2:38 PM

About the big grid size days, I wonder if the 1 hour time limit should be extended. We don't want majority of the solvers not finishing I suppose?
@ 2013-09-08 12:12 AM (#12620 - in reply to #12168) (#12620)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-08 12:12 AM

Comments on 2013-09-05's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-05 00:08:32
Could've saved 5 seconds at the end if I wasn't convinced I'd made a mistake when I hadn't :|
macherlakumar commented at 2013-09-05 00:11:49
Good one, but I solved it slowly.
gareth commented at 2013-09-05 00:28:36
Wow, I made that much harder than it was. I kept making the exact same (dumb) mistake at bottom-left.
swaroop2011 commented at 2013-09-05 01:15:22
after making virtual mistake yesterday i had to solve it slowly today awesome puzzles it had been from past 2-3 days which has nice tricks and all. Hope to avoid mistakes in further days :)
@ 2013-09-08 2:51 AM (#12622 - in reply to #12168) (#12622)Quote Reply Top

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EMJ posted @ 2013-09-08 2:51 AM

Yes, if possible, please extend the timer. I am certainly not playing for speed, just for fun. But when I take over an hour, it would be nice to still submit it so I can know for sure that it is - finally! - correct.

Also, is there any way to slow, or better yet pause or reverse the playback of "other people's solves?"

Thanks!
@ 2013-09-08 7:37 PM (#12631 - in reply to #12168) (#12631)Quote Reply Top

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debmohanty posted @ 2013-09-08 7:37 PM

Submissions will be accepted even after 1 hour

Considering that there will be some big sized grids next week, we have decided that submissions will now be accepted even after an hour. However, we didn't want to change the scoring system middle of the competition. So all submissions beyond an hour will be ignored from scoring point of view.

Note that this change is applicable irrespective of the size of the grids. So basically, the timer no more stops at 60:00.

Thanks PS and EMJ for bringing it up. I still think puzzles won't be too difficult, and will be solvable within an hour.

@ 2013-09-09 12:12 AM (#12636 - in reply to #12168) (#12636)Quote Reply Top

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CTC Comments posted @ 2013-09-09 12:12 AM

Comments on 2013-09-06's Tapa
prasanna16391 commented at 2013-09-06 00:11:23
Got distracted for a long time from the true opening near the bottom left :) Flow was nice after that.
carljohan commented at 2013-09-06 11:57:20
So difficult...
@ 2013-09-09 3:28 AM (#12638 - in reply to #12168) (#12638)Quote Reply Top

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EMJ posted @ 2013-09-09 3:28 AM

Thanks much for the timer extension!
Cheers,
EMJ
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