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Valezius
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Country : Hungary | kiwijam - 2013-09-17 8:40 AM
Question: In Pentomino Blokus, the pieces can be rotated and reflected, not all pieces need to be used, but each piece can only be used 1 time maximum?
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Country : India | Bonus StructureThe WP Mini Marathon is similar to Puzzle Marathon in many ways. So the bonus structure will be exactly same.
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For any particular round
Let,
n = number of players submitting all puzzles correctly in the round within 60 minutes
B = Solving time of the best player
M = Median solving time of the n players
There are 2 components for bonus in each round.
Rank Bonus = 60 * (n + 1 - player's rank ) / n
So the best player gets 60 points as Rank bonus.
Solving Time Bonus
If a player's solving time is <= M, he will get 30 + 30 * ( player's solving time - M ) / (B - M ) ( A linear distribution between 30 and 60 between the best player and the player with median time)
If a player's solving time is > M, he will get 30 - 30 * ( player's solving time - M ) / (60 minutes - M ) ( A linear distribution between 30 and 0 between the player with median time and 60 minutes)
So the best player again gets 60 points as Solving Time Bonus.
Also, as mentioned in the IB, - All rounds will be IG (Instant Grading) enabled.
- 1.5 minutes penalty for each of first 2 wrong submissions.
- 3 minutes penalty for each subsequent wrong submission.
- Individual puzzle value becomes 80% after 60 minutes.
- All 4 rounds score will be summed for final score in the test.
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | In IB, the rules of Price Tag has the following: "each placeholder becomes a digit". Does this mean every set of segments must become a digit and may not be left empty? For example, in "_1 + _9 = 10", there are two empty places. |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | Also, in Pentomino Samurai, will we get the grid in samurai fashion in the actual PB (instead of assembling them first like in the IB)? |
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amitsowani
Posts: 349
Country : India | chaotic_iak - 2013-09-18 9:06 AM
Also, in Pentomino Samurai, will we get the grid in samurai fashion in the actual PB (instead of assembling them first like in the IB)?
Th IB says that "It means that to solve the middle puzzle it is necessary to find the correct positions of outer puzzles". Identifying which corner goes where is a part of the solving process. |
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | chaotic_iak - 2013-09-18 8:18 AM
In IB, the rules of Price Tag has the following: "each placeholder becomes a digit". Does this mean every set of segments must become a digit and may not be left empty? For example, in "_1 + _9 = 10", there are two empty places.
There aren't empty placeholders.
_1+_9=10 is invalid.
And don't forget that numbers cannot start with zero, so 01+09=10 is invalid, as well.
amitsowani - 2013-09-18 11:40 AM
chaotic_iak - 2013-09-18 9:06 AM
Also, in Pentomino Samurai, will we get the grid in samurai fashion in the actual PB (instead of assembling them first like in the IB)?
Th IB says that "It means that to solve the middle puzzle it is necessary to find the correct positions of outer puzzles". Identifying which corner goes where is a part of the solving process.
Amit is right.
There will be five separated grids. You can recognise the middle one, because its corners are grey. Just like in the example.
You have to build up the correct Samurai grid.
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | For Pentomino Samurai, I suppose I don't have to rotate the grids?
Edited by chaotic_iak 2013-09-18 8:41 PM
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | chaotic_iak - 2013-09-18 8:40 PM
For Pentomino Samurai, I suppose I don't have to rotate the grids?
You're right. I missed this points from the IB.
The grids cannot rotated or reflected. |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | In Pentomino Samurai is multiple solutions possible while individually solving, or individual grids also will have unique solution. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | devarajand - 2013-09-20 8:13 PM
In Pentomino Samurai is multiple solutions possible while individually solving, or individual grids also will have unique solution. The four outer puzzles have unique solutions, when solved independently. |
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Country : India | Points tableEach round, as mentioned in IB, is worth 120 points. Here is the break up.
Round 1 - Price Tag - 3 puzzles. 30 + 40 + 50
Round 2 - Pentomino Samurai - The 4 outside puzzles are 20 points each. The central puzzle is 40 points.
Round 3 - Great Wall - 8 puzzles, each Wall puzzle is 15 points.
Round 4 - Black & White Matrix - 12 puzzles, each individual puzzle is 10 points.
Also, a quick note about Instant Grading - Each puzzle has a "Submit" button, so you can check the small puzzle's correctness before finishing the complete round.
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ksun48
Posts: 29
Country : Canada | ksun48 posted @ 2013-09-22 8:21 AM How do we view score page for each puzzle?
Edited by ksun48 2013-09-22 8:25 AM
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Country : India | ksun48 - 2013-09-22 8:21 AM
How do we view score page for each puzzle? The score page is not ready (yet ). |
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Country : India | This thread is now restricted. |
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ladyleatherneck
Posts: 4
Country : United States | Where do I find the password? Thanks |
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Puzlifouk
Posts: 67
Country : France | Very pleasant contest ! I'm very proud of finishing the 1st round within 60 minutes, and very sad of having sent a wrong submission (a stupid wrong touch) on the 1st puzzle.
A point is not clear : because of my stupid mistake, I know I will have a penality of 1.5 minutes, but I never saw that I will lost 10% of the puzzle points (so my points are 27+40+50 instead of 30+40+50). Why ?
No mention of this point in the IB, neither in this thread !? |
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | Puzlifouk - 2013-09-22 5:36 PM
Very pleasant contest ! I'm very proud of finishing the 1st round within 60 minutes, and very sad of having sent a wrong submission (a stupid wrong touch) on the 1st puzzle.
A point is not clear : because of my stupid mistake, I know I will have a penality of 1.5 minutes, but I never saw that I will lost 10% of the puzzle points (so my points are 27+40+50 instead of 30+40+50). Why ?
No mention of this point in the IB, neither in this thread !?
Hi, there is no points penalty for wrong submissions.
however, the test has a very difficult point system, so it can have some wrong elements. I'm sure Deb will fix it soon. No need to worry. Finally, you will get 120 points.
Zoltán |
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | ladyleatherneck - 2013-09-22 5:31 PM
Where do I find the password? Thanks
If you push the start button. You will get the password for the pdf of that round.
There are 4 pdf with 4 different pssword and four start button.
Zoltán |
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ksun48
Posts: 29
Country : Canada | ksun48 posted @ 2013-09-22 6:21 PM For Great Wall, can segments be on the grid edges? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Valezius - 2013-09-22 6:18 PM
Puzlifouk - 2013-09-22 5:36 PM
Very pleasant contest ! [restricted], and very sad of having sent a wrong submission (a stupid wrong touch) on the 1st puzzle.
A point is not clear : because of my stupid mistake, I know I will have a penality of 1.5 minutes, but I never saw that I will lost 10% of the puzzle points (so my points are 27+40+50 instead of 30+40+50). Why ?
No mention of this point in the IB, neither in this thread !?
Hi, there is no points penalty for wrong submissions.
however, the test has a very difficult point system, so it can have some wrong elements. I'm sure Deb will fix it soon. No need to worry. Finally, you will get 120 points.
Zoltán Zoltan is right. This is just a placeholder score page. It will take a while to have the official score page. The current score page is applying the logic of DTGT.
Hope you enjoy the other rounds too. |
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | ksun48 - 2013-09-22 6:21 PM
For Great Wall, can segments be on the grid edges?
No. Rules from the IB:
"the whole grid consists exactly one line which starts and ends on the edge of the grid, and never goes again on the edge or on dotted line. " |
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edderiofer
Posts: 8
Country : Hong Kong | In round 4, I can't seem to resolve grids 6, 7, 10, and 11 at the same time.
Given my answer to grids 4, 8, and 12, the I-pentomino must lie at the very bottom of grid 7. However, this means (via shading a few cells in grid 6) that in grid 10, R3C10 is shaded, forcing R1C2~6 and R3~4C1 to be shaded in grid 11. It is impossible to have paths go through all of these cells, so I must conclude that the puzzle is broken. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | edderiofer - 2013-09-22 7:54 PM
In round 4, I can't seem to resolve grids [restricted]
Please note that in puzzle 7 (Pentomino blokus ), it is not necessary to use all the pentominos. (Each pentomino should be used either once or never ) |
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edderiofer
Posts: 8
Country : Hong Kong | debmohanty - 2013-09-22 3:00 PM Please note that in puzzle 7 (Pentomino blokus), it is not necessary to use all the pentominos. (Each pentomino should be used either once or never)
Well, thanks for telling me that. I would never have noticed otherwise. |
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