Great set of puzzles guys!
Best wishes to all the participants!
Unfortunately I entered the competition late and lost few critical minutes.

Edited by harmeet 2010-09-13 9:46 AM

Deb - Thanks very much to you and team India for allowing international participation; enjoyed the puzzles (as always) ....
best regards,
dave

Great contest guys. Thanks for allowing us foreigners to participate. Much appreciated!

Alan

http://www.ukpuzzles.org/

Thanks Alan...

Rishi

great competition!!..kudos...
but don't you think that the selection of the Indian team should not be made through a two and a half hour test but rather should be
spread over many such competitions and people with highest cumulative scores be selected...or any similar method..
thanks

Hi Sumit,

Thanks for the suggestion and taking part in the IPC.

The purpose of the National championship is to find the best in the Country and have the best team sent for the World Championships. The other monthly competitions that we host at LMI is treated more as friendly competitions and practice.

Rishi

@Administrator
I have answered battleships as N,E,P,C,P,E,P,G which is same as C,E,E,G,N,P
I have been avoided zero points
kindly check this out

Correct answer is CM,EN,EP,GP

Answer Keys

PuzzleName	Solution
B1 - Kakuro	94586926#96859124
B2 - Hitori	333
B3 - Fence	3032
B4 - Arrows	5#5
B5 - Battleship	CM,EN,EP,GP
O1 - Spot Differences	B5,C2,E7,G6,H5
O2 - Word Search	CZESTOCHOWA,KATOWICE,RYBNIK,WROCLAW
O3 - LMI fill	DROWN,OPERA
O4 - SFINKS Cut	213212
O5 - Paint by numbers	0000010001#1001001001|1111101110#0110110110
P1 - Trimino Clubs	1#3
P2 - Shield	0246975138
P3 - Box 321	132312#321312
P4 - Poplotek	31412
P5 - More More	3021054|302054
S1 - Classic Sudoku	526189743#127386495
S2 - Killer Sudoku	496852317#912847536
S3 - Irregular Sudoku	198372465#586791243
S4 - Equal to Sudoku	517326948#734612859
S5 - Divisible by 3 Sudoku	864579312#486291735
V1 - Dominos	5#5
V2 - ABC Connection	ABCBDBEFEB
V3 - Skyscraper	532251#224122
V4 - Easy as ABCD	XBCDA
V5 - Hashi	3

The official results of the Indian Puzzle Championship which only includes Indian nationals who participated during the official test timings are available here.
http://logicmastersindia.com/IPC2010/results.asp
Congrats to Rohan Rao, Rajesh Kumar, Gaurav Korde and Tejal Phatak for making it to the top 4.

The complete results for the entire event are available here.
http://logicmastersindia.com/IPC2010/score.asp
Congrats to Thomas Snyder, Michael Ley and Branko Ceranic for topping the test with huge bonus points.

Thank you everybody for your participation and making the event a successful one.

Congrats to Rohan on bagging a double in 2010... ISC and IPC..... Great Show by Thomas Snyder, Michael Ley and Branko Ceranic.

Also a great performance by Rajesh, Gaurav and Tejal...

Rishi

Congrats to all winners !!!

Congrats Rohan for winning both ISC, IPC for year 2010. Hoping that you will be attending WPC 2010.

Thanks Amit/Rishi/Deb. Wonderful contest, amazing puzzles and a successful championship.
Thanks Rakesh, Rajesh and others. It feels nice to be the best in the country :-)

Congrats to Snyder, Ley and Ceranic for their top 3 positions.

Congrats Rohan! :)

Thanks to Amit/Deb/Rishi for the wonderful set of puzzles! :)

Congratulations, Rohan!!! And also Thomas, Michael...

I wish to thank also to all puzzle makers and LMI masters.

Branko

Heartiest congratulations to all the winners and many congratulations to Amit, Deb and Rishi for organizing it!

Thanks everybody for the wonderful response.
Let me take this opportunity to thank team working behind the scenes to make IPC 2010 happen.
The initial plan was of Deb participating in the IPC after a long time (post 2007), with me and Rishi organizing the IPC.
But Deb, being indispensable to the IPC team ended up creating a large number of puzzles and designing the submission interface. Some of these puzzles like the Divisible by 3, Equal to Sudoku ended up being the most appreciated puzzles as expected :)
Rishi chipped in with some of the puzzles even while on paternity leave and most importantly ensured that the server did not let us down during the test duration.
Also thanks to Kshitij Sharma for creating a couple of puzzles for the IPC, both of which were the first time he was creating puzzles for that type. Should serve as some inspiration for participants dabbling around with creating their own puzzles :)
On my part, I did most of the IB and PB compilation, which did leave a lot to be desired, but I'm sure the learning out here would come in good stead while organizing future championships.
And special thanks to Nikola who did not get a chance to defend his IPC 2009 title in giving us quick feedback on puzzle timings and also helping with the answer format.

Yo, thanks to the organizers, the puzzles were a lovely set, going through them felt like a cool breeze. I mean, not literally, but that is the closest I can describe it. Thanks again :)

Edited by aman_pruthi 2010-09-14 11:26 AM

Amit, Deb, Kshitij, Nikola, Rishi (in alphabetical order)

Thanks Branko and Harmeet.
Thanks to Kshitij and Nikola too... :-)

Thanks to the IPC organizers.

Congrats to Thomas, Michael, Branko, Rohan, Rajesh, Gaurav and all these guys who are very good at puzzle
I'm not (yet?) a big fan of puzzles, but as there were a big part of sudoku, I decided to participate. I enjoy some of other puzzles, too

Fred

Congratulations to all winners and to all who participated! The puzzles were very nice and "newbies friendly". I had unfortunately power outage 15 minutes into the competition and solving with candle light in hope that the electricity will come back (it did the same minute the time for submission expired) was not best but still enjoybale. It was at least a nice practice and a good motivation to exted my horizons from sudoku only.