I think anyone who scores more than 465 points gets the bonus irrespective of whether he submits all the puzzles or few wrong puzzles..........Am I correct????

Neeraj, you are correct.
Please check the factor table again.
If a players submits everything in 70 minutes, and gets a score of 465 he gets a bonus point 3.
If a players submits everything in 70 minutes, and gets a score of 500 he gets a bonus point 28.
If a players submits everything in 70 minutes, and gets a score of 575 he gets a bonus point 80.

It does not matter if some puzzles are wrong or not submitted. They are treated same way.

so, it is obvious that the player getting 465 in 70 minutes must try for few more puzzles in the remaining 10 minutes rather than getting satisfied with 3 bonus points.

The score page is updated to take care of different bonus points.
Players who have taken the test can check their final score by visiting the score page.

Deb,

I submitted the answer in a slightly wrong format for Number Pyramid but I think I solved the puzzle correctly. Can you check it for me?

Thank you,

David McNeill.

PS Enjoyed the puzzles.

done. added 30 points to your score.

Thanks Deb. I'll say more about the puzzles later.

David McNeill.

Deb -- My compliments once again - despite a rather sluggish performance, I really enjoyed the puzzles and the format. As always, looking forward to the next one!Best regards, Dave

Thanks Dave. We hope to continue improving with each test.

Pleasant as always! I believe the answer submission was the only weakness here -- it was of course a fair answer submission but required an unfortunate amount of attention in some cases, and even then mistakes could still be made. But that is what happens with internet tests, and it did not detract from the overall enjoyment. Good work, thank you Deb.

I agree with you. After some 'guessable' answer keys in BP, I re-did some of the answer keys for this test, and in that process some answer keys became much longer than probably needed, and hence error-prone.
But yes, as you mentioned, it is very important to strike a balance in the answer keys - between being guessable and too-lengthy/error-prone.

Very nice puzzles. Enjoyed a lot solving these puzzles. Submission part was tough. Lost around 103 points as I could not submit answer for one puzzle in group E in time. Big learning from this test. Thanks Deb for creating such a great set of puzzles.

Thanks for the test !

It shows to me that I'm really a "sudoku-only player", as I made a ridiculous score !

Fred

There is always a beginning to something new and as-exciting.

I cannot see my result

My connection was gone by the end of 80 mins..

What do you mean by "connection was gone"? Did you lose internet connection?
As per our database, there is no puzzle submitted by you.

Good test, thanks guys.

Unfortunately, I wasn't very well prepared for it in technical terms - at the start, I printed the test, realising that the colour toner is very low, meaning that some of the puzzles came out in a very low quality, unsuitable for solving. I started to solve those that were visible enough and started a 2nd printing, this time in greyscale - this was when the black toner gave in too! :-(

Of course, that doesn't explain the three submission mistakes I made, in each cases the error was made at the time of determining the submission codes over a correctly solved puzzle (overlooked an X, a double bridge and a turn in Anglers, respectively). Which is part of the contest, I guess, so it's a skill to work on later!

Cheers
z.

@Zormac - bad luck all the way, i guess.
Thanks for participating, I don't recall many participants from Hungary at LMI in recent times (though I can't be sure since country was blank for many players in the past). Hopefully we will see more players from Hungary.

Great test, not very successful on my results.
The presentation is excellent and very welcoming for new puzzlers.
Nice set of classic puzzles and simple-to-understand layouts.

Although you may have to triple check their solution keys, which I guess is unhelpable.
All in all, 5 stars. Congratulations

A rule that a line can't cover a 2x2 square may be needed in some puzzles, to force a unique solution.
If such a rule does not included, one may use the fact that the puzzle has a unique solution, without this rule.

Two questions:
1. In H2O, based on the examples (and chemistry), molecules are always arranged as H-O-H and not H-H-O, but such a rule is not included. Does H-H-O possible?
2. In half dominoes, does the half dominoes should be placed in the marked 3x3 boxes, without overlapping, as in the example?

Thanks, Amnon


Edited by amnon 2010-09-05 9:58 PM

@amnon
In H20 the atoms cannot be connected as H-H-O. They can only be connected as H-O-H.

In half dominoes the dominoes need to be placed in the marked 3X3 boxes without overlapping.

Just to say thanks for the test - many of the puzzles were unknown to me but I really enjoyed having a go despite my extremely low score (although I did complete another 3 of the questions correctly worth 50 points but very stupidly made mistakes in counting the number of turns in both ABC connectors and Masyu and miscounted one of the rows of Xs in the No Four in a row puzzle! ) Not to worry, at least I'll be a bit more careful submitting the results in future! A great selection of puzzles which I will now go away and finish at leisure! Need to get the brain cells ticking over a little quicker!

First I add my thanks for the nice puzzles.
The interesting bonus system requires different approach for the selection of problems to solve.

There is some problem with my submission of the Queens park puzzle. I entered the right solution in the form (I can still see it) and I submitted 3 answers after this one which were received correctly. It tells me that answers to 13 puzzles were submitted, which is the number I sent, including the Queens park.
However, in the results page I see the Queens park, but with empty solution.

amnon, check now