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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-24 5:54 PM Word Nurikabe: Can the two or more given letters be part of same word? I assume that answer is yes as instructions does not restrict it. Please do clarify if possible. |
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Country : India | ErratumThe Instruction Booklet is missing the rule for Word Nurikabe that "each letter given belongs to a separate word". This will be clarified soon on the Submission page and this sentence will be there in the Puzzle Booklet too. We're sorry for the confusion.
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Country : India | How to get the password?
Exactly following steps are needed to get the password for the puzzle pdf.
Note that the "Start IPC 2014" button will be enabled only after 2:00PM.
If the button is still disabled, you need to refresh your browser.
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Country : India | PrizesApart from the top 3 being invited to represent India at the World Championships, we have some prizes to offer the top 10, in the form of LMI Merchandise. We haven't yet decided the exact distributions, but those eligible will be posted here and e-mailed to to provide their address and other details if they want to receive the prizes.
Also, participation certificates will be e-mailed to everyone, but if you want a signed hard copy of the certificate with your rank, it will be couriered to you for a fee that will be announced later. Please mail at prasannaseshadri@logicmastersindia.com if you want to order a hard copy.
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Will this become restricted forum after test begins like other monthly tests ? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | swaroop2011 - 2014-05-25 1:31 PM
Will this become restricted forum after test begins like other monthly tests ? Yes. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | ok
Best of luck to all :) |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-25 1:52 PM All the best :)
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achan1058
Posts: 80
Country : Canada | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I really should not do the test when tired. Wasted a huge amount of time on the easy questions.
By the way, only my score is showing on the scoreboard, while everyone else gets 0 points. Is that normal? Edited by achan1058 2014-05-25 4:59 PM
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | achan1058 - 2014-05-25 4:53 PM
I really should not do the test when tired. Wasted a huge amount of time on the easy questions.
By the way, only my score is showing on the scoreboard, while everyone else gets 0 points. Is that normal?
For now, yes. We're working on the incorrect submissions to release the proper official results. |
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rajibrborah
Posts: 8
Country : India | | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
The rules of the every puzzle should be listed in bullet form. Each bullet point should have one and only one restriction of the puzzle mentioned in it. Currently, one instruction statement of the puzzle has multiple restrictions mentioned in it (or all the rules are described in a paragraph format ) - increasing the probability of a new-comer to miss one of the multiple restrictions. (Anyway, some of the statements in the instructions are complicated/convoluted for new comers. So breaking the instruction statement down into individual bullet points, with one rule per bullet point will make it clearer to new-comers ) = = = = While the participants are supposed to read the rules very carefully, but it does help if the same are listed in bullet-wise fashion so that the solvers (especially new-comers and non-regular-puzzle-solvers ) don't miss any facet of the puzzle. It also makes it easier for non-regular solvers to validate the answers upon submission - by checking against each bullet point. Edited by rajibrborah 2014-05-25 5:24 PM
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macherlakumar
Posts: 123
Country : India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | rajibrborah - 2014-05-25 5:13 PM
The rules of the every puzzle should be listed in bullet form.
Each bullet point should have one and only one restriction of the puzzle mentioned in it.
Currently, one instruction statement of the puzzle has multiple restrictions mentioned in it - increasing the probability of a new-comer to miss one of the multiple restrictions.
(Anyway, some of the statements in the instructions are complicated/convoluted for new comers.
So breaking the instruction statement down into individual bullet points, with one rule per bullet point will make it clearer to new-comers)
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While the participants are supposed to read the rules very carefully, but it does help if the same are listed in bullet-wise fashion so that the solvers (especially new-comers and non-regular-puzzle-solvers) don't miss any facet of the puzzle.
It also makes it easier for non-regular solvers to validate the answers upon submission - by checking against each bullet point.
Thanks for this feedback. These are very good points. We'll consider them in the future. |
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2014-05-25 5:24 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2014-05-25 5:33 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Official Results
Congrats to the top 3 -
1. Amit Sowani
2. Rohan Rao
3. Swaroop Guggilam
The Official results can be seen here - http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC/score.asp
As mentioned earlier, the top 10 are eligible for prizes. Please mail me at prasannaseshadri@logicmastersindia.com for claiming prizes/certificate hard copies.
Thanks.
On a personal note, I'm quite happy with the 3 solvers making it to the Indian team.
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | Congratulations to all winners. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Congrats Amit for winning the title. Congrats Rohan too.
Finally feeling happy, break through after missing from past 3 years.
Will give detailed comment about test later.
Thanks for awesome puzzles to all authors. Thanks to Deb and Prasanna for organizing so well.
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macherlakumar
Posts: 123
Country : India | Firstly thanks to the organizers and authors for a wonderful test.
Congrats to Amit, Rohan and Swaroop.
Swaroop finally made it no more close miss this time :D
Thanks and Regards,
Ravi |
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megu
Posts: 9
Country : India | megu posted @ 2014-05-25 6:17 PM I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.
I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2
What is the right answer?
Edited by megu 2014-05-25 6:18 PM
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Megu3 - 2014-05-25 6:17 PM
I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.
I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2
What is the right answer?
Without releasing right answer yet, I'll give you a chance to solve it yourself. You've missed the rule that operator precedence is followed, i.e., Multiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction. So your equation for 1 will actually become 15 - 1.5, not 6/6. |
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macherlakumar
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5 x 3 - 9 / 6 is (5 x 3) - (9/6) = 15-(3/2) = 13.5
Regards,
Ravi
Edited by debmohanty 2014-05-25 7:44 PM
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achan1058
Posts: 80
Country : Canada | Equation 3 is wrong, since you need to respect the order of operations, which gets you 13.5.
Edited by achan1058 2014-05-25 6:25 PM
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2014-05-25 6:31 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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