Since there are not that many sudokus of 7x7 available, I have made a list of all more or less relevant sudokus of that size that I have published earlier on the website of LM Germany. More or less, because I didn’t create all variants in the test earlier. Instead, there are also variants in the list below that do not appear at all in the test. Nevertheless they can be helpful to practise 7x7 in general. I hope it will help.

Variants that are in the 7x7-test:
Toroidal: basic
Kropki: (S)
Kropki: (S)
Consecutive: (T)
Diagonal: (C)
Diagonal + Killer: (C)
Killer: (S)
Killer: (S) (Very hard puzzle!)

Variants that are not in the 7x7-test:
No Touch: (C)
Even: (C)
Outside Sums: (S)
Edge Sums: (S)
X-Sums: (C)
X-Sums: (C)
X-Sums: (S)

As always, I have a few leftover puzzles as well as a few extra practise puzzles. They will be published at the website of LM Germany in the next days in the following schedule:
Saturday: basic chaos and basic toroidal
Sunday: basic scattered and basic double scattered
Monday: Killer (C) and Low (T)
Tuesday: none (My Sudoku Variants Series runs on Tuesdays)
Wednesday: QuadSums (S) and Consecutive Circles (C)
Thursday: Sum 100 (C) and OddMax (S)
Friday: ? and ? That’s still open. If you like to have one or two more practise puzzles, I can prepare those if I know it by Tuesday evening the latest. I have time to make them on Wednesday. Just let me know here in this forum thread what type(s) it should be. If there is no request, that’s fine too.

I hope everyone can have a decent preparation to this test.

No promises about online solving at the moment.

5. QuadSums: "A circle at a corner implies that one digit is the sum of the remaining three digits at that corner." Does the absence of a circle imply that no digit is the sum of the three others?

No. In the IB there is a square with digits 1351 without dot in R45C67.

A dot is missing in the consecutive sudoku. I'll let you find where

In Points table,

'13. Equal'

should be

'13. Equal (S)'

8. OddMax: Can the highest odd digit appear TWO times in four cells?
For example: When the highest odd digit is 3, is the set of (3,3,2,1) OK?

No; the instructions say 'A digit in a circle appears exactly one time in the four surrounding cells...'

Other digits may appear more than once, as is the case multiple times in the example.

Basic Chaos, Toroidal, Scattered and Double Scattered are published meanwhile.
These basic puzzles were all on the hard side to be used in the real test.

Enjoy!

How do we register for this test?

No separate registration is needed. Use your credentials for this website to log-in on the answer page after it is enabled.

Edited by lenson 2014-07-07 12:37 PM

Adding to that, refer here for an idea on how to go about participating in an online contest here - http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=381

Found it. And corrected it as well. Thx!


Fixed it. Thanks.

There will be an updated IB, but I guess that will be after the test is finished. Both corrections are not that interesting...



Two new practice puzzles were added: Killer (C) and Low (T)


So far, I didn’t receive a request. If you still like one or two extra practise puzzles, just let me know.

I want to know how can I participate in 12-14 July test?

Hi. Please check the posts in this thread. You will get an idea on how to participate in it.

As promised, the last puzzles were published yesterday and today:

Quad Sums (S)
Consecutive Circles (C)
OddMax (S)
Sum 100 (C)

Now everyone can have a decent preparation for the test!

I want to know what is the procedure to participate in 12-14 July Sudoku test?

Hi Niranjana. Please refer this link. You will get details on participating in an LMI test. If you have more queries, please post in this forum.

http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=381

Online solving will not be available in this test.

Score page doesn't work, although it says that I can see it after solving. Is it a bug or just meant to be so?

Score page is now available. the link as usual is - http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/07S/score.asp

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?	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

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
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	A bit too many puzzles
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

Thanks for the puzzles, Richard! I enjoyed the variety, and I thought putting 4 to a page was a good idea. (and when I say a bit too many puzzles, I really mean not quite enough time - for me anyway!)

Cheers,
Dave

Edited by davep 2014-07-13 4:00 AM

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	A bit skewed
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many hard puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	A bit too many puzzles
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

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?	Too many hard puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	Way too many puzzles (too little time)
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Many puzzles were worth too much or too little
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Excellent quality puzzles, but very hard. Good for vacation. I miss Me. Stolk's puzzles in Breinbrekers. Maybe someday Puzzelsport will accept credit cards and I could subscribe in the USA.