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Puzlifouk
Posts: 61
Country : France | Hello,
This new contest looks very exciting. But as I am a beginner, I can only hope to solve 3 or 4 problems in the allotted time. Is it possible, for this contest as for the other ones, to provide a decreasing system of points, encouraging to continue to look for other problems after the end of the planned 121 minutes? Thank you in advance. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
  
Country : India | swaroop2011 - 2014-04-22 5:37 AM
In similar eggs, it says 0 or 1 white circles, so does that mean two given white circles cant be in same island ?
Yup thats exactly what it means. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | auroux - 2014-04-22 4:36 AM
Hahaha! Now I understand the whole point of the "parallel universe" thing! This is probably going to be my favorite birthday present this year :) Thanks so much Prasanna!
Is it your birthday on 25th? Either way, I'm glad that this has been timed as such for you. : ) |
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forcolin
Posts: 172
Country : ITALY | a question about STILO
all BLACK cells are connected to each other. Should the WHITE cells be connected as well? |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | forcolin - 2014-04-23 3:00 AM
a question about STILO
all BLACK cells are connected to each other. Should the WHITE cells be connected as well?
i think its not otherwise it would have been mentioned.
Connectivity rule is applicable only for shaded cells : ) |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2014-04-23 5:38 AM |
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devarajand
Posts: 114
Country : India | In STILO should the adjacent shapes be different from each other when touched orthogonal.
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | devarajand - 2014-04-23 12:07 PM
In STILO should the adjacent shapes be different from each other when touched orthogonal.
Yes.
The base rules are - When two “shapes” (tetrominoes formed by a group of 4 continuous cells ) in adjacent regions
share an edge, they must not be of the same type, regardless of rotations or reflections.
In LITS, the shapes must be formed by shaded cells within a region and in STILO, by unshaded cells, but in both, the shaded cells must be connected throughout the grid. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Practice puzzles from "their" Prasanna now available at submission page.
Note that, an updated version was uploaded around 9AM IST (3:30 AM GMT ) on 24th.
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | From which universe's Prasanna? :P |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | chaotic_iak - 2014-04-24 6:42 AM
From which universe's Prasanna? :P
Oh theirs, of course. I'm too busy right now to do this. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | Note about Practice - The Kakuro probably needs a 40 clue on Row 2 to work logically. The new PDF will be uploaded in a while, with the change. |
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Administrator
Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2014-04-24 8:06 AM
Note about Practice - The Kakuro probably needs a 40 clue on Row 2 to work logically. The new PDF will be uploaded in a while, with the change. Uploaded. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | The Contest start-time has been changed due to administrative constraints
The new start time is 9:30 PM IST (4 PM GMT) on 24th, i.e., in about 23 minutes.
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Kota
Posts: 33
Country : Japan | Kota posted @ 2014-04-24 9:24 PM >Prasanna
In Practice,
Akichiwake, r6c3 is not 9 but 7?
Syuma, why mustn't two cells at the lowest and left be passed? |
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Kota
Posts: 33
Country : Japan | Kota posted @ 2014-04-24 9:26 PM Kota - 2014-04-24 9:24 PM
>Prasanna
In Practice,
Akichiwake, r6c3 is not 9 but 7?
Syuma, why mustn't two cells at the lowest and left be passed?
Sorry, I had a mistake for Syuma's rule. Please forget. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | Kota - 2014-04-24 9:24 PM
>Prasanna
In Practice,
Akichiwake, r6c3 is not 9 but 7?
Syuma, why mustn't two cells at the lowest and left be passed?
For Akichiwake, there is this line in the rules - There need not be an area equal to this value, the only restriction is there can be no area larger than the
value connected within the region.
The region can basically work without any number but I put in the 9 to illustrate this sentence. The number just shows that there cannot be a white area larger than that. |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | Kota - 2014-04-25 12:24 AM
In Practice,
Akichiwake, r6c3 is not 9 but 7?
The number given is not necessarily reached.
EDIT: ... Edited by chaotic_iak 2014-04-24 9:34 PM
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Kota
Posts: 33
Country : Japan | Kota posted @ 2014-04-24 9:44 PM chaotic_iak - 2014-04-24 9:34 PM
Kota - 2014-04-25 12:24 AM
In Practice,
Akichiwake, r6c3 is not 9 but 7?
The number given is not necessarily reached.
EDIT: ...
Thanks for your opinion.
I skipped the words 'maximum possible'... |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2014-04-25 12:06 AM Whee, some seriously other-universly types here. When I saw the Heyawake variant rules I thought at least it can't be as weird as Hayeweka, but it feels almost as twisted when solving. Thanks for the practice puzzles, by the way! (Is that Kakuro de Ni-keta insanely hard by any chance?) |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | rob - 2014-04-25 12:06 AM
(Is that Kakuro de Ni-keta insanely hard by any chance?)
I think that type is inherently gonna be hard most of the time, unless the author makes a real effort towards simplifying things (giving more two-cell sums, etc. in the layout, or obviously low sums, neither of which "that" Prasanna did here extensively  ). But yes, this one's a bit hard, and good practice for the high pointer on the test, I feel.
Also, hope you have the changed version with the 40 sum in R2. Just checking to make sure. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | Note - There are a few slight issues with the score-page (bonuses, and that my testing submissions are still visible) which should hopefully be fixed by tomorrow. |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2014-04-25 3:28 AM That was fun, thanks!
Hope I remember about unclued snake eggs next time this type shows up... |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1774
Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2014-04-25 12:57 AM
Note - There are a few slight issues with the score-page (bonuses, and that my testing submissions are still visible) which should hopefully be fixed by tomorrow.
Fixed. |
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achan1058
Posts: 80
Country : Canada | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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