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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-07 8:35 PM purifire - 2010-09-07 9:53 AM
rajeshk - 2010-09-06 7:31 PM
It will be good to request the international Participant, not to participate during the official test to avoid overloading on the server.
Rajesh, I dont think there is any worry with regards to overloading of the server, we have not faced any overloading issues in any of the monthly tests. and it is unlikely that a highly drastic change will be there in the number of foreign players participating.
In the monthly tests, test remains open for 48 hours. If consider that there are 160 participants then on the average, people submitting the answers will be around 4/hour. The test will be open for 2 hours and say 100 people participate and all submitting the answers at the same, it may overload server. Hopefully LMI server will be able to take this load. |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-08 7:59 AM Administrator - 2010-08-24 11:03 AM
The instruction booklet will be available around 8th September.
Rules and Regulations posted here
Waiting for the IB  |
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priygupt
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Country : India | The Instruction Booklet is not yet posted, Can we expect it to be up by 5pm today? |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | priygupt - 2010-09-08 2:11 PM
The Instruction Booklet is not yet posted, Can we expect it to be up by 5pm today?
We cannot give a specific cut off time... |
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anurag
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Country : India | anurag posted @ 2010-09-08 6:05 PM I am with rajesh here,the server may not take that load. |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | The IB for IPC 2010 has been uploaded. It can be downloaded Here |
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amitsowani
Posts: 349
Country : India | The puzzles have been divided into five groups.
The first group is dedicated to Sudoku, which is definitely one of the most popular puzzle type. A couple of the Sudoku concepts have been borrowed from Jan Mrzowski's blog and from the Polish Puzzle Championship 2010.
The next section is for Basic Variants which the participants are very likely to have seen before even in newspapers.
The third section has observational and word puzzles, like spot differences, word search which I am sure most of you must have solved when you were kids :)
The fourth section is dedicated to Puzzle types from the Polish Puzzle Championship in accordance to the fact that WPC 2010 will be hosted by Poland.
The last section is again a section of basic variants which have commonly occured in past Polish Championships.
Hope you all have a great time solving these puzzles.
Please go through the Instruction Booklet carefully and do post any doubts regarding the puzzle instructions answer format etc. on the forum.
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-09 11:58 AM Thanks Amit/Rishi
Looking forward to this championship. Just one doubt as of now. Will there be any bonus points in this championship? |
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amitsowani
Posts: 349
Country : India | There are no bonus points for the official rankings in the IPC.
We will include a bonus of 10 points per minute saved in the rankings which include all non Indian participants.
In case participants finish all puzzles correctly within the alloted time then the tie will be broken based on the time stamp of the last correctly submitted answer.
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-09 1:57 PM Instructions for Poplotek is not clear. Does the number represents number of fence sides or number of turns taken on that side? |
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purifire
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Country : India | rajeshk - 2010-09-09 1:57 PM
Instructions for Poplotek is not clear. Does the number represents number of fence sides or number of turns taken on that side?
Rajesh, There will be numbers on all 4 sides of the figure.
The numbers on the left and bottom indicate the number of corners (turns ) and the numbers on the right and top of the figure indicate the number of sides of the loop.
Hope this clarifies. |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-09 2:37 PM purifire - 2010-09-09 2:07 PM
rajeshk - 2010-09-09 1:57 PM
Instructions for Poplotek is not clear. Does the number represents number of fence sides or number of turns taken on that side?
Rajesh, There will be numbers on all 4 sides of the figure.
The numbers on the left and bottom indicate the number of corners (turns ) and the numbers on the right and top of the figure indicate the number of sides of the loop.
Hope this clarifies.
Thanks Rishi
In fact this was clear from the instructions itself. Sorry for confusion. |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | No Problem :) |
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anurag
Posts: 136
Country : India | anurag posted @ 2010-09-09 3:31 PM unfortunately,the instruction booklet is not worth looking through. i suggest posting links to other pdfs which contain examples of those puzzle types.Hope the test pdf looks better. |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | anurag - 2010-09-09 3:31 PM
unfortunately,the instruction booklet is not worth looking through. i suggest posting links to other pdfs which contain examples of those puzzle types.Hope the test pdf looks better.
The purpose of the IB is to give an idea of the type of puzzle and inform the participants of the answer key. If anyone wants practice material, google search is the best option. 
Rishi |
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SrikanthB
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Country : India | I believe so much effort has been spent on it by the Organizers that you cannot just ridicule it. As mentioned by Rishi, most of these puzzles are standard ones. And if you are serious enough and have been trying puzzles long enough, you would know the rules of a puzzle just by the name of it. And if not, you cannot comment on others efforts. |
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rajeshk
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Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-09 7:20 PM Agree with Rishi that idea of IB to give idea regarding the puzzle type and answer format. Most of the puzzle are standard puzzle and new variations are taken from Polish Championship which is mentioned in the IB.
One can download the Polish Championship puzzles from following link
http://sfinks.org.pl/zadania.php?lang=EN
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
Country : India | anurag - 2010-09-09 3:31 PM
unfortunately,the instruction booklet is not worth looking through. i suggest posting links to other pdfs which contain examples of those puzzle types.Hope the test pdf looks better.
@Anurag
I think if u google the various puzzle types u can get lot of samples.... so instead of depending on organizers please find some links and post them for the benefit of the public..... |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2010-09-09 8:03 PM |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
Country : India | In Box 321 is it necessary that we have only 2 sets of 1,2 ,3 in each row and each column............. at least the example is like that |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
Country : India | Another query.........
Does the size of puzzles remain same or will it be increased...................example ABCD, DOMINOES, KAKURO, etc |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | neerajmehrotra - 2010-09-09 9:45 PM
In Box 321 is it necessary that we have only 2 sets of 1,2 ,3 in each row and each column............. at least the example is like that
Neeraj, if in a row the sequence of 1,2,3 occurs, then that sequence cannot repeat in any other row. similarly, the sequence of numbers in a every column is unique. Hope this helps.
Rishi |
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purifire
Posts: 460
Country : India | neerajmehrotra - 2010-09-09 9:55 PM
Another query.........
Does the size of puzzles remain same or will it be increased...................example ABCD, DOMINOES, KAKURO, etc
The examples given in the IB have no bearing on the size of the actual puzzles.
Rishi |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
Country : India | thanx a lot Rishi.......
concept of the puzzles is really nice (though I am not very gud at them)..........looking forward for the competition... |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2010-09-09 10:29 PM Spot The Differences: Can we enter all 5 answers? If yes, will we get full marks if 1 is wrong and 4 are correct? |
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