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TVC XVI — 28th September - 1st October41 posts • Page 1 of 2 • 1 2
Select the Tapa variations that you would want to see in TVC XVI
We are preparing TVC XVI puzzles considering result of the poll. Most voted 6 variations will be directly placed in TVC XVI. You can choose upto 5 variations. Link to Tapa Variations List.
OptionResults
Alternative Tapa [TVC List No45]10 Votes - [11.49%]
Tapa Mine [TVC List No47]10 Votes - [11.49%]
Tapa Filler [TVC List No24]9 Votes - [10.34%]
Tapa Place [TVC List No7]8 Votes - [9.2%]
Symmetric Tapa [TVC List No31]8 Votes - [9.2%]
TAPA TAPA [TVC List No93]7 Votes - [8.05%]
Tapa Rundweg [TVC List No4]6 Votes - [6.9%]
Tapa Chess [TVC List No35]6 Votes - [6.9%]
Tapa Scrabble [TVC List No48]6 Votes - [6.9%]
Not Alone Tapa [TVC List No98]6 Votes - [6.9%]
Perspective Tapa [TVC List No100]6 Votes - [6.9%]
Power of Tapa [TVC List No83]5 Votes - [5.75%]
This is a multiple choice poll.

@ 2013-09-28 6:00 PM (#12930 - in reply to #12929) (#12930) Top

rob



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rob posted @ 2013-09-28 6:00 PM

Oh, very sorry, somehow I thought they were always restricted.
@ 2013-09-28 6:19 PM (#12931 - in reply to #12930) (#12931) Top

yureklis



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yureklis posted @ 2013-09-28 6:19 PM

rob - 2013-09-28 6:00 PM

Oh, very sorry, somehow I thought they were always restricted.


please check the PM
@ 2013-09-28 6:37 PM (#12932 - in reply to #12606) (#12932) Top

Administrator



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Administrator posted @ 2013-09-28 6:37 PM

Updated puzzle booklet

Another updated version of puzzle booklet was uploaded at 18:32 server time (13:02 GMT) on 28th


@ 2013-09-28 7:00 PM (#12933 - in reply to #12930) (#12933) Top

debmohanty




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debmohanty posted @ 2013-09-28 7:00 PM

rob - 2013-09-28 6:00 PM

Oh, very sorry, somehow I thought they were always restricted.
You don't need to be. It is my responsibility to make the thread restricted, but I didn't do it since I didn't know how to do it. There are 2 ongoing tests with two different set of players having access to the threads. Luckily Prasanna gave a simple solution that we can make both the threads restricted and players finishing both the tests should have access.

So the thread is restricted now, with the above condition.
@ 2013-09-28 7:03 PM (#12934 - in reply to #12933) (#12934) Top

debmohanty




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debmohanty posted @ 2013-09-28 7:03 PM

@ 2013-09-28 11:47 PM (#12936 - in reply to #12606) (#12936) Top

Rubben



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Rubben posted @ 2013-09-28 11:47 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


@ 2013-09-29 1:00 AM (#12938 - in reply to #12606) (#12938) Top

prasanna16391



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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-29 1:00 AM




Nice sprint format to end TVC. I thought I wouldn't finish there. I don't feel comfortable as much with Filler and I was completely (and needlessly) stuck on the bottom Tapa Tapa. All of the puzzles were excellent. I did use a little intuition on the bottom Toroidal. Considering this was a TVC with a lot of variants I'm not comfortable with, I'm happy to have finished, albeit in penalty time.

@ 2013-09-29 1:03 AM (#12939 - in reply to #12606) (#12939) Top

An LMI player



An LMI player posted @ 2013-09-29 1:03 AM

 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? 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


@ 2013-09-29 1:12 AM (#12940 - in reply to #12606) (#12940) Top

prasanna16391



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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-09-29 1:12 AM

Looking back at the penalty, I'll probably be losing quite a lot of points for submitting that last puzzle because of the penalty time. I hope there's some provision for the submissions that cause the score to drop to not get counted
@ 2013-09-29 3:51 AM (#12941 - in reply to #12606) (#12941) Top

RALehrer



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RALehrer posted @ 2013-09-29 3:51 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? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2013-09-29 10:02 PM (#12943 - in reply to #12606) (#12943) Top

Grizix



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Grizix posted @ 2013-09-29 10:02 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? A bit too many puzzles
 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? I have a different complaint


No clue which grid is which on the kakuro styled page.
@ 2013-09-30 3:59 AM (#12946 - in reply to #12606) (#12946) Top

swaroop2011




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swaroop2011 posted @ 2013-09-30 3:59 AM

All was going ohk until after test i saw i have done silly mistake in two of puzzles. :(
Anyways nice puzzles. Will solve the remaining ones. :)
Thanks to authors for such wonderful test :)
@ 2013-09-30 12:51 PM (#12960 - in reply to #12606) (#12960) Top

xevs



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xevs posted @ 2013-09-30 12:51 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? 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


@ 2013-09-30 4:00 PM (#12964 - in reply to #12606) (#12964) Top

An LMI player



An LMI player posted @ 2013-09-30 4:00 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? Just right


@ 2013-09-30 7:27 PM (#12970 - in reply to #12606) (#12970) Top

chaotic_iak




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chaotic_iak posted @ 2013-09-30 7:27 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


@ 2013-09-30 7:32 PM (#12971 - in reply to #12606) (#12971) Top

An LMI player



An LMI player posted @ 2013-09-30 7:32 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? A bit too many 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


@ 2013-10-01 5:28 AM (#12979 - in reply to #12606) (#12979) Top

ksun48



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ksun48 posted @ 2013-10-01 5:28 AM

Darn, I messed up answer entry on all three Tapa Fillers (entered the sequence of numbers instead of blocks) I hope I will get credit for these puzzles (otherwise that's 94 points down the drain).
@ 2013-10-01 10:05 AM (#12980 - in reply to #12606) (#12980) Top

Tablesaw



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Tablesaw posted @ 2013-10-01 10:05 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? A bit easy
 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? Way too many puzzles (too little time)
 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


@ 2013-10-01 3:08 PM (#12982 - in reply to #12606) (#12982) Top

An LMI player



An LMI player posted @ 2013-10-01 3:08 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? Too many easy puzzles
 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


@ 2013-10-02 1:55 AM (#12987 - in reply to #12606) (#12987) Top

ukonet



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ukonet posted @ 2013-10-02 1:55 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? A bit easy
 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? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


@ 2013-10-02 5:42 AM (#12991 - in reply to #12606) (#12991) Top

FoxFireX




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FoxFireX posted @ 2013-10-02 5:42 AM

Curious about the scoring on this one. The score page for me is just showing every puzzle as being worth one point. Is that what we're going with, or will the point values in the score page be updated at some point? Or am I having a technical issue?
@ 2013-10-02 7:29 AM (#12994 - in reply to #12991) (#12994) Top

Para



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Para posted @ 2013-10-02 7:29 AM

FoxFireX - 2013-10-02 5:42 AM

Curious about the scoring on this one. The score page for me is just showing every puzzle as being worth one point. Is that what we're going with, or will the point values in the score page be updated at some point? Or am I having a technical issue?


I thought it might be temporary to keep the final results of the TVC hidden till the test is over.
@ 2013-10-02 9:06 AM (#12995 - in reply to #12606) (#12995) Top

An LMI player



An LMI player posted @ 2013-10-02 9:06 AM

 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? Too many easy puzzles
 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 many puzzles
 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


@ 2013-10-02 9:56 AM (#12997 - in reply to #12994) (#12997) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2013-10-02 9:56 AM

Para - 2013-10-02 7:29 AM

FoxFireX - 2013-10-02 5:42 AM

Curious about the scoring on this one. The score page for me is just showing every puzzle as being worth one point. Is that what we're going with, or will the point values in the score page be updated at some point? Or am I having a technical issue?


I thought it might be temporary to keep the final results of the TVC hidden till the test is over.
Score page now shows the points (and submission times) correctly.
@ 2013-10-02 2:15 PM (#13000 - in reply to #12606) (#13000) Top

prasanna16391



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prasanna16391 posted @ 2013-10-02 2:15 PM

Interesting, looking at the cumulative results, you have to go as far down as 9th for someone who might have been higher (7th) without the best of 3 ruling.

Personally, really happy to have finished 6th. Thankfully my penalty goof in this last one doesn't affect my overall ranking at all, apart from maybe pushing me to "best of the rest" instead of "the worst of the best".
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