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Country : India | Based on useful feedback from chaotic_iak, puzzle image for Turning Fence is made paint-friendly (i.e. flood fill can be used to draw lines ). Paper solvers shouldn't see any difference after printing.
Please note, this is just an informative post, and is not indented to encourage you to solve on paint.
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Country : India | Submission page now has puzzle details
Submission page now has details about each puzzle (size / relative difficulty / author ).
The puzzles are sorted based on relative difficulty (i.e. easiest puzzle at top & most difficult puzzle at the bottom ). Puzzles of similar difficulty are sorted by familiarity. As it happens in many cases, difficulty is a matter of perception and preference. So your experience may differ.
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Country : India | Test starts 6 hours earlier than plannedBecause of administrative constraints, Puzzle Marathon starts 6 hours earlier than planned. Test end time does not change.
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2014-02-21 8:29 AM Here's a little nudge to the layout of my puzzle.
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auroux
Posts: 145
Country : France | auroux posted @ 2014-02-21 8:53 AM Ungh. Emboldened by the announced "Easy" difficulty level of the KakurOH, I expected to make quick work of it and started 30 minutes before I actually had to leave. Stupidest idea ever. Oh well. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Congratulations to Gotroch for solving all 10 (as first player and also all at one stretch) |
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razapor
Posts: 2
Country : United States | razapor posted @ 2014-02-21 11:40 AM In Scrabble is there a possible 2nd solution? My 2544494613 is rejected but it looks right, to me. Horiz words from top to bottom : 2 -kruglov, winter,meng; 4-evensen; 5-tikhonova;6-haug;9-nagano,heiden;10-skeleton;11-vedenin;13-oslo,oreiller;14-ulvang;16-enke;18-klassen;19-gustafsson.
Thank You.
Maybe I'm counting wrong. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | razapor - 2014-02-21 11:40 AM
In Scrabble .... Are you counting the number of letters or number words?
We expect number of letters.
if you are counting number of letters, and still getting wrong mark, can I ask you to send your solution (a photo ) to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com ? Edited by debmohanty 2014-02-21 11:47 AM
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Country : India | FoxFireX - 2013-03-03 5:02 AM
... Is there a way to abandon a solve that you just don't think you'll ever complete? I couldn't find a way to move on and try a different one, so I was stuck using my entire day's time banging my head against a faulty bit of logic.
Like previous years, there is time limit this year too. Once you start a puzzle X, you can't start another puzzle Y until you submit X or one hour is over, whichever is earlier. So 2 (and more ) puzzles can be started together. But you have to wait for 1 hour or submit the first puzzle correctly.
It was not clear last year that you actually have to reload the submission page. We have added a "Refresh Status" button for this purpose. |
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xevs
Posts: 43
Country : Japan | xevs posted @ 2014-02-21 2:18 PM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Heyawake | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Scrabble | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2014-02-21 3:03 PM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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xevs
Posts: 43
Country : Japan | xevs posted @ 2014-02-21 3:45 PM I could do better in mini coral, statue park, yajirin and nunro.
My 4th favorite was Araf.
Thank you all for excellent puzzles!
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razapor
Posts: 2
Country : United States | razapor posted @ 2014-02-21 7:55 PM Darn, I repeated vedenin. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Yajilin Answer KeyFor Yajilin, in the IB only columns are marked, but the actual puzzle has both rows and columns marked.
Please take a note.
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debmohanty
Country : India | auroux - 2014-02-21 8:53 AM
Ungh. Emboldened by the announced "Easy" difficulty level of the KakurOH, I expected to make quick work of it and started 30 minutes before I actually had to leave. Stupidest idea ever. Oh well. It could have been easily 10/10/10 for you. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Can someone explain rules of mini coral, especially importance of numbers i didn't understood.
Edited by swaroop2011 2014-02-22 6:14 AM
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debmohanty
Country : India | swaroop2011 - 2014-02-22 6:14 AM
Can someone explain rules of mini coral, especially importance of numbers i didn't understood.
1. The clues indicate the number of cells connected in the white region.
2. Don't start the puzzle if you just understood the rules.
3. See LMD link for practice puzzles. Solve couple of them first. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | ok thanks
i was thinking as number of white cells seen and was counting each quarter for it, so was not matching.
Anyways now understood, thanks.
Yeah i will practice and then give :) |
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achan1058
Posts: 80
Country : Canada | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mini Coral | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
The printing on the mini coral sucked. The middle lines were so light that my printer isn't printing them at all on draft mode, which never happened before on any of the contests I have done previously. How did you guys get started on the Heyawake? I ended up doing quite a bit of trial and error before finding a contradiction that I could work with. As usual, I am completely lost on the scrabble. Any tips on how to do that kind of puzzle is welcome. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | achan1058 - 2014-02-22 10:19 AM
The printing on the mini coral sucked. The middle lines were so light that my printer isn't printing them at all on draft mode, which never happened before on any of the contests I have done previously. The lines dividing the cells into quarters were meant only for flood-fill. But now that you mentioned, it is not a bad idea to have them little darker.
Had you printed the practice puzzles from LMD? |
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achan1058
Posts: 80
Country : Canada | Seeing that the puzzles on LMD do not have the middle lines to begin with, I failed to see the point. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Sorry I was probably not clear.
I just meant if you had printed and solved them. You would have faced the same problem while doing those practice puzzles.
Anyway, I guess the bottom line is, it wouldn't have been harmful to have them little darker. |
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Zrile13
Posts: 1
Country : Croatia | Zrile13 posted @ 2014-02-22 6:27 PM I can not correct my solution. I got it wrong on the first try of sudoku, corrected it, written in the solution second time, and when I press submit it is not accepting my new solution, but keeps counting the time. no matter found my mistake
Edited by Zrile13 2014-02-22 6:36 PM
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ukonet
Posts: 9
Country : Turkey | ukonet posted @ 2014-02-23 12:20 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mini Coral | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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