Akash, It looks difficult at this point in time to have the examples ready for practicing online.
We'll update the forum if we can do that.

Havn't understood "Descriptive Pair Sudoku", could someone please explain?

In the example, look at Row1. The left side hint is 26. That means In Row1, either 2 is at 6th position OR 6 is at 2nd position
i.e. either R1C6 is 2 OR R1C2 is 6

Is it clear now?

You can solve the puzzle online too. Click Here

Note that is OR clause is not exclusive, i.e, both possible statements could be true simultaneously.

Chris is correct.

@All

Sorry for an error in the instructions of mirror sudoku.

Correct instruction is R(m)C(n)=R(10-m)C(10-n)

I hope you will enjoy the puzzles.

Why 0703 points?

07/03/2010

Thanks Deb, its clear now. :)

moderator sir i have participated in the mock after a long time... is it possible to know my score...

nice puzzles gaurav, but practice puzzles are a must in the IB for all the variations.... however simple it may be... opens up the mind on the approach to a puzzle...

your score is 349. You have got 2 digits wrong in WrongSkyscraper (111 points)
Also check your email.

Yes I know... I am extremely sorry that I couldnt create practice puzzles. I know for new variants it matter a lot. Deb helped me a lot in making the examples for few of the examples put in the IB. But still example for circles and repeatable extra region and diagonally consecutive were missing.

btw you will be able to see the results at 10pm IST tonight.. :)

can i know my score?

235. Also check your email.

can i know my score?thanks. : )

You did pretty well :)
514

Anyways, have patience.. the complete results will be out later tonight.

Thanks a lot!

Results will be out at 8:05PM as usual.

Very nice puzzles Gaurav... I liked Circles and Descriptive Pairs the best...
I kept making a stupid mistake in Equation Sudoku due to which I lost 5-6mins :|

Waiting for the results...

I found Extra Region more difficult than Descriptive Pairs and Circles...

Very nice puzzles!
I personally liked Circles, Diagonal Consecutive, Blackout (because this was the 1st time I got it correct! :D)...

Made a silly mistake in Descriptive Pairs, else ciuld have have submitted it in time :(

The test was timed also very well... I guess appointing a tester actually helps! :)

Actually the puzzles were quite difficult earlier and our target was that 10-15 people should finish the test. So I added hints in 5 puzzles.. and now we found that it wasnt that easy either... But many could finish 8.

Anyways I am glad you all enjoyed the puzzles. :)

Also an awesome round by Janoslaw. 18 min before time was really great

Being the tester couldnt participate :(
But I got a first hand look at the puzzles which were a little more tougher then the final cut.

Gaurav reduced the difficulty of the puzzles for the Skyscraper, Circles and Arrow Path.
Overall the test had a good mix of puzzles with difficulty ranging from quite easy (Mirror Sudoku) to the diabolic Skyscraper.

I didnt find the arrow path sudoku interesting, it gets solved one box at a time and required more of scanning then anything else.

The circles puzzle was awesome. I couldnt get a start into the puzzle, during the first round of testing. The entry point was quite difficult to spot, so Gaurav added a second equally difficult entry point to the puzzle, hoping that solvers will spot at least one of these to solve the puzzle.

This was the first time I was solving a Blackout puzzle which was not created by Deb, was relieved to know that easy puzzles can also be created for this type :)

Good to see Sumit back in the fray :)

I will be creating puzzle for the next mock along with my room-mate Kshitij. Watch out for the Mock 16, as we have some interesting variations in store for you !!