Thread - Indian Puzzle Championship 2014

@ 2014-05-07 10:02 PM (#15227 - in reply to #15221) (#15227) Top

swaroop2011

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swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-07 10:02 PM

RISEN - 2014-05-07 12:06 PM
2. what if my internet stop working in between?
3. or will you prefer any cyber cafe?
(

as i have faced this situation early i can suggest you one thing. If there is a risk that your internet will get disconnect or so. Then i can guarantee cyber cafe is safe place to deal with. Here is what i did, previous day i talked to the cyber cafe person for keeping me a place next day at that particular time i.e. 3 hrs and asked to keep his printer connection on etc. basically everything set before contest begins.

Hope this helps.

@ 2014-05-08 10:49 AM (#15232 - in reply to #15186) (#15232) Top

achan1058

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achan1058 posted @ 2014-05-08 10:49 AM

Well international participants have flexible time, like with last year?

@ 2014-05-08 1:15 PM (#15240 - in reply to #15232) (#15240) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-08 1:15 PM

achan1058 - 2014-05-08 10:49 AM

Well international participants have flexible time, like with last year?

Yes. The test will be extended for International participants similar to last year.
Just to be clear again, Indian participants will only be considered for the official IPC rankings if they compete within the allotted time (which will be announced).

@ 2014-05-11 3:43 PM (#15259 - in reply to #15186) (#15259) Top

ffmahini

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ffmahini posted @ 2014-05-11 3:43 PM

Hi I am here

@ 2014-05-11 7:45 PM (#15264 - in reply to #15259) (#15264) Top

swaroop2011

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swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-11 7:45 PM

ffmahini - 2014-05-11 3:43 PM

Hi I am here

Hi
welcome
You can post any queries over here, someone will answer as soon as possible :)
Hope you will enjoy the contest :)

@ 2014-05-14 10:21 PM (#15284 - in reply to #15186) (#15284) Top

Arun Choudhary

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Arun Choudhary posted @ 2014-05-14 10:21 PM

hello everyone
i couldn't find the Beginners' Contests for IPC as mentioned by prasanna sir. please help
also please suggest how to prepare for IPC 2014

@ 2014-05-14 11:15 PM (#15285 - in reply to #15186) (#15285) Top

rvarun

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rvarun posted @ 2014-05-14 11:15 PM

Hi Arun. The Beginners Puzzle contest for this month is over. You can check out the following links.

Past Contests in LMI - Sudoku and Puzzles including Beginners contests -- http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/downloads.asp

This month Beginners Puzzle contest puzzle booklet will be uploaded in the above link. Till then you can check out the below link directing you to the Contest Page which has the Instruction Booklets and Puzzle Booklets.

http://logicmastersindia.com/BeginnersPuzzle/201405/?round=1

@ 2014-05-15 2:23 AM (#15288 - in reply to #15186) (#15288) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-15 2:23 AM

Adding to what Varun has said, the first post of the thread has links to previous year IPCs, which should help.

@ 2014-05-18 3:59 AM (#15307 - in reply to #15186) (#15307) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 3:59 AM

Update - Instruction Booklet published

The Instruction booklet with types and other information about the Championship can be downloaded at : http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC/

@ 2014-05-18 1:48 PM (#15309 - in reply to #15186) (#15309) Top

rob

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rob posted @ 2014-05-18 1:48 PM

Small note on the instructions: The Tetromino Division sample puzzle uses 'S', while the list of tetrominos has 'Z'.

Interesting set of types, looking forward to this.

@ 2014-05-18 2:06 PM (#15310 - in reply to #15186) (#15310) Top

rajeshk

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rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-18 2:06 PM

Nice set of puzzles. Looking forward to it.

I could not understand fully Torodial Slitherlinks. e.g. Where top left corner end is wrapping around? and how we are able to complete the loop?

@ 2014-05-18 2:15 PM (#15311 - in reply to #15310) (#15311) Top

Para

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Para posted @ 2014-05-18 2:15 PM

rajeshk - 2014-05-18 2:06 PM

Nice set of puzzles. Looking forward to it.

I could not understand fully Torodial Slitherlinks. e.g. Where top left corner end is wrapping around? and how we are able to complete the loop?

It wraps around both ways. So the left most column of dots and the right most column of dots are really the same column. The same goes for the top most row of dots and the bottom most row of dots. From this we can also get that all corner dots are really the same dot.

@ 2014-05-18 9:45 PM (#15315 - in reply to #15311) (#15315) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 9:45 PM

Para - 2014-05-18 2:15 PM

Few practice links -
http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2011/09/puzzle-2-slitherlinktoroi...

http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2011/09/double-trouble-1-slitherl...

@ 2014-05-18 9:46 PM (#15316 - in reply to #15309) (#15316) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 9:46 PM

rob - 2014-05-18 1:48 PM

Small note on the instructions: The Tetromino Division sample puzzle uses 'S', while the list of tetrominos has 'Z'.

Interesting set of types, looking forward to this.

Thanks for pointing this out. It has been fixed.

@ 2014-05-19 9:15 PM (#15321 - in reply to #15186) (#15321) Top

mathcrazy

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mathcrazy posted @ 2014-05-19 9:15 PM

In Spirally as ABC should the order be A-B-C-D from the inside or from the outside?

@ 2014-05-19 9:39 PM (#15322 - in reply to #15186) (#15322) Top

chaotic_iak

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chaotic_iak posted @ 2014-05-19 9:39 PM

According to the example in the IB it's from outside, which is also consistent with most spiral puzzles (put letters from outside).

@ 2014-05-19 10:15 PM (#15324 - in reply to #15321) (#15324) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-19 10:15 PM

mathcrazy - 2014-05-19 9:15 PM

In Spirally as ABC should the order be A-B-C-D from the inside or from the outside?

Its from the outside (The open cell) to the inside, as the example shows.

@ 2014-05-20 3:32 AM (#15326 - in reply to #15186) (#15326) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-20 3:32 AM

Some practice for Cross the Streams - http://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/category/cross-the-streams/

For Tetromino Division, the Beginners' Contest authored by Serkan should be helpful - http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=B2014032

Pentomino Division is basically the Pentominous from GMP - http://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/?s=pentominous

Maximal Lengths was on the recent Puzzle GP - http://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/wpf-puzzle-gp4 (Both Instruction Booklet example and the competition puzzle should be useful).

For Observer Battleships, you can scroll down to puzzle number 12 here - http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2012/11/13th-24-hour-puzzle-champ...

For some of the base types, me and Swaroop had collaborated for a practice set last year with some basic solving tips, which can be seen here - http://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/ipc-preview-practi...

TomTom and Coded TomTom were both in IPC 2012, which is linked to in the opening post.

If others know more helpful links, feel free to post.

@ 2014-05-20 11:34 PM (#15334 - in reply to #15186) (#15334) Top

macherlakumar

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macherlakumar posted @ 2014-05-20 11:34 PM

Hi All,
I have created a Tiki Tour puzzle for practice.

Regards,
Ravi

(Tiki Tour.png)

Attachments
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Tiki Tour.png (12KB - 7 downloads)

@ 2014-05-21 1:52 AM (#15335 - in reply to #15186) (#15335) Top

swaroop2011

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swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-21 1:52 AM

Nice puzzle :)
Thanks.

@ 2014-05-21 12:48 PM (#15338 - in reply to #15186) (#15338) Top

rajeshk

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rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-21 12:48 PM

Good Puzzle Ravi. Thanks for sharing it.

@ 2014-05-21 2:00 PM (#15339 - in reply to #15338) (#15339) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-21 2:00 PM

Below is a link to a demo page. This demo page is mainly for newcomers who want to do a test run of how the system works for an online competition. You may check the different warning messages you will get for each answer key too.

http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC_Demo/

@ 2014-05-21 2:10 PM (#15340 - in reply to #15186) (#15340) Top

mathcrazy

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mathcrazy posted @ 2014-05-21 2:10 PM

In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells?

@ 2014-05-21 2:45 PM (#15341 - in reply to #15340) (#15341) Top

rajeshk

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rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-21 2:45 PM

mathcrazy - 2014-05-21 2:10 PM

In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells?

It will be counted as empty as clear from example (count numbers for 6 in example to understand and clear your doubt).

@ 2014-05-21 3:35 PM (#15342 - in reply to #15340) (#15342) Top

prasanna16391

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-21 3:35 PM

mathcrazy - 2014-05-21 2:10 PM

In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells?

Yes.


	@ 2014-05-07 10:02 PM (#15227 - in reply to #15221) (#15227) Top
swaroop2011 Posts: 668 Country : India	swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-07 10:02 PM RISEN - 2014-05-07 12:06 PM 2. what if my internet stop working in between? 3. or will you prefer any cyber cafe? ( as i have faced this situation early i can suggest you one thing. If there is a risk that your internet will get disconnect or so. Then i can guarantee cyber cafe is safe place to deal with. Here is what i did, previous day i talked to the cyber cafe person for keeping me a place next day at that particular time i.e. 3 hrs and asked to keep his printer connection on etc. basically everything set before contest begins. Hope this helps.
	@ 2014-05-08 10:49 AM (#15232 - in reply to #15186) (#15232) Top
achan1058 Posts: 80 Country : Canada	achan1058 posted @ 2014-05-08 10:49 AM Well international participants have flexible time, like with last year?
	@ 2014-05-08 1:15 PM (#15240 - in reply to #15232) (#15240) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-08 1:15 PM achan1058 - 2014-05-08 10:49 AM Well international participants have flexible time, like with last year? Yes. The test will be extended for International participants similar to last year. Just to be clear again, Indian participants will only be considered for the official IPC rankings if they compete within the allotted time (which will be announced).
	@ 2014-05-11 3:43 PM (#15259 - in reply to #15186) (#15259) Top
ffmahini Posts: 1 Country : Iran	ffmahini posted @ 2014-05-11 3:43 PM Hi I am here
	@ 2014-05-11 7:45 PM (#15264 - in reply to #15259) (#15264) Top
swaroop2011 Posts: 668 Country : India	swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-11 7:45 PM ffmahini - 2014-05-11 3:43 PM Hi I am here Hi welcome You can post any queries over here, someone will answer as soon as possible :) Hope you will enjoy the contest :)
	@ 2014-05-14 10:21 PM (#15284 - in reply to #15186) (#15284) Top
Arun Choudhary Posts: 1 Country : India	Arun Choudhary posted @ 2014-05-14 10:21 PM hello everyone i couldn't find the Beginners' Contests for IPC as mentioned by prasanna sir. please help also please suggest how to prepare for IPC 2014
	@ 2014-05-14 11:15 PM (#15285 - in reply to #15186) (#15285) Top
rvarun Posts: 268 Country : India	rvarun posted @ 2014-05-14 11:15 PM Hi Arun. The Beginners Puzzle contest for this month is over. You can check out the following links. Past Contests in LMI - Sudoku and Puzzles including Beginners contests -- http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/downloads.asp This month Beginners Puzzle contest puzzle booklet will be uploaded in the above link. Till then you can check out the below link directing you to the Contest Page which has the Instruction Booklets and Puzzle Booklets. http://logicmastersindia.com/BeginnersPuzzle/201405/?round=1
	@ 2014-05-15 2:23 AM (#15288 - in reply to #15186) (#15288) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-15 2:23 AM Adding to what Varun has said, the first post of the thread has links to previous year IPCs, which should help.
	@ 2014-05-18 3:59 AM (#15307 - in reply to #15186) (#15307) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 3:59 AM Update - Instruction Booklet published The Instruction booklet with types and other information about the Championship can be downloaded at : http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC/
	@ 2014-05-18 1:48 PM (#15309 - in reply to #15186) (#15309) Top
rob Posts: 170 Country : Germany	rob posted @ 2014-05-18 1:48 PM Small note on the instructions: The Tetromino Division sample puzzle uses 'S', while the list of tetrominos has 'Z'. Interesting set of types, looking forward to this.
	@ 2014-05-18 2:06 PM (#15310 - in reply to #15186) (#15310) Top
rajeshk Posts: 542 Country : India	rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-18 2:06 PM Nice set of puzzles. Looking forward to it. I could not understand fully Torodial Slitherlinks. e.g. Where top left corner end is wrapping around? and how we are able to complete the loop?
	@ 2014-05-18 2:15 PM (#15311 - in reply to #15310) (#15311) Top
Para Posts: 315 Country : The Netherlands	Para posted @ 2014-05-18 2:15 PM rajeshk - 2014-05-18 2:06 PM Nice set of puzzles. Looking forward to it. I could not understand fully Torodial Slitherlinks. e.g. Where top left corner end is wrapping around? and how we are able to complete the loop? It wraps around both ways. So the left most column of dots and the right most column of dots are really the same column. The same goes for the top most row of dots and the bottom most row of dots. From this we can also get that all corner dots are really the same dot.
	@ 2014-05-18 9:45 PM (#15315 - in reply to #15311) (#15315) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 9:45 PM Para - 2014-05-18 2:15 PM rajeshk - 2014-05-18 2:06 PM Nice set of puzzles. Looking forward to it. I could not understand fully Torodial Slitherlinks. e.g. Where top left corner end is wrapping around? and how we are able to complete the loop? It wraps around both ways. So the left most column of dots and the right most column of dots are really the same column. The same goes for the top most row of dots and the bottom most row of dots. From this we can also get that all corner dots are really the same dot. Few practice links - http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2011/09/puzzle-2-slitherlinktoroi... http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2011/09/double-trouble-1-slitherl...
	@ 2014-05-18 9:46 PM (#15316 - in reply to #15309) (#15316) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-18 9:46 PM rob - 2014-05-18 1:48 PM Small note on the instructions: The Tetromino Division sample puzzle uses 'S', while the list of tetrominos has 'Z'. Interesting set of types, looking forward to this. Thanks for pointing this out. It has been fixed.
	@ 2014-05-19 9:15 PM (#15321 - in reply to #15186) (#15321) Top
mathcrazy Posts: 35 Country : India	mathcrazy posted @ 2014-05-19 9:15 PM In Spirally as ABC should the order be A-B-C-D from the inside or from the outside?
	@ 2014-05-19 9:39 PM (#15322 - in reply to #15186) (#15322) Top
chaotic_iak Posts: 241 Country : Indonesia	chaotic_iak posted @ 2014-05-19 9:39 PM According to the example in the IB it's from outside, which is also consistent with most spiral puzzles (put letters from outside).
	@ 2014-05-19 10:15 PM (#15324 - in reply to #15321) (#15324) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-19 10:15 PM mathcrazy - 2014-05-19 9:15 PM In Spirally as ABC should the order be A-B-C-D from the inside or from the outside? Its from the outside (The open cell) to the inside, as the example shows.
	@ 2014-05-20 3:32 AM (#15326 - in reply to #15186) (#15326) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-20 3:32 AM Some practice for Cross the Streams - http://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/category/cross-the-streams/ For Tetromino Division, the Beginners' Contest authored by Serkan should be helpful - http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=B2014032 Pentomino Division is basically the Pentominous from GMP - http://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/?s=pentominous Maximal Lengths was on the recent Puzzle GP - http://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/wpf-puzzle-gp4 (Both Instruction Booklet example and the competition puzzle should be useful). For Observer Battleships, you can scroll down to puzzle number 12 here - http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.in/2012/11/13th-24-hour-puzzle-champ... For some of the base types, me and Swaroop had collaborated for a practice set last year with some basic solving tips, which can be seen here - http://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/ipc-preview-practi... TomTom and Coded TomTom were both in IPC 2012, which is linked to in the opening post. If others know more helpful links, feel free to post.
	@ 2014-05-20 11:34 PM (#15334 - in reply to #15186) (#15334) Top
macherlakumar Posts: 123 Country : India	macherlakumar posted @ 2014-05-20 11:34 PM Hi All, I have created a Tiki Tour puzzle for practice. Regards, Ravi (Tiki Tour.png) Attachments ---------------- Tiki Tour.png (12KB - 7 downloads)
	@ 2014-05-21 1:52 AM (#15335 - in reply to #15186) (#15335) Top
swaroop2011 Posts: 668 Country : India	swaroop2011 posted @ 2014-05-21 1:52 AM Nice puzzle :) Thanks.
	@ 2014-05-21 12:48 PM (#15338 - in reply to #15186) (#15338) Top
rajeshk Posts: 542 Country : India	rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-21 12:48 PM Good Puzzle Ravi. Thanks for sharing it.
	@ 2014-05-21 2:00 PM (#15339 - in reply to #15338) (#15339) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-21 2:00 PM Below is a link to a demo page. This demo page is mainly for newcomers who want to do a test run of how the system works for an online competition. You may check the different warning messages you will get for each answer key too. http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC_Demo/
	@ 2014-05-21 2:10 PM (#15340 - in reply to #15186) (#15340) Top
mathcrazy Posts: 35 Country : India	mathcrazy posted @ 2014-05-21 2:10 PM In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells?
	@ 2014-05-21 2:45 PM (#15341 - in reply to #15340) (#15341) Top
rajeshk Posts: 542 Country : India	rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-21 2:45 PM mathcrazy - 2014-05-21 2:10 PM In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells? It will be counted as empty as clear from example (count numbers for 6 in example to understand and clear your doubt).
	@ 2014-05-21 3:35 PM (#15342 - in reply to #15340) (#15342) Top
prasanna16391 Posts: 1801 Country : India	prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-05-21 3:35 PM mathcrazy - 2014-05-21 2:10 PM In Battleship Observer, does a numbered cell count as empty cell for other numbered cells? Yes.