@ 2014-11-16 11:18 AM (#17136 - in reply to #17017) (#17136) TopPosts: 329
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neerajmehrotra posted @ 2014-11-16 11:18 AM
Thanks Deb for awesome puzzles.... however two wrongs put me off...
@ 2014-11-16 11:56 AM (#17137 - in reply to #17017) (#17137) TopPosts: 1
SRI VIDHYAA P G posted @ 2014-11-16 11:56 AM
How to download the password?
@ 2014-11-16 11:58 AM (#17138 - in reply to #17137) (#17138) Top
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debmohanty posted @ 2014-11-16 11:58 AM
SRI VIDHYAA P G - 2014-11-16 11:56 AM
How to download the password?
How to download the password?
Go to the submission page. Login there. Click on start "Odd Even Variations". You will see the password.
@ 2014-11-16 12:38 PM (#17139 - in reply to #17017) (#17139) TopPosts: 15
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purvishah posted @ 2014-11-16 12:38 PM
Nice puzzles. This one was the first for me as came to know about sudoku mahabhrat just 3-4 days back.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance.
@ 2014-11-16 2:57 PM (#17141 - in reply to #17017) (#17141) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-16 2:57 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 4:46 PM (#17142 - in reply to #17017) (#17142) TopPosts: 44
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MrLiang posted @ 2014-11-16 4:46 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 5:04 PM (#17143 - in reply to #17017) (#17143) TopPosts: 30
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margareta456 posted @ 2014-11-16 5:04 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 6:19 PM (#17144 - in reply to #17017) (#17144) TopPosts: 15
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purvishah posted @ 2014-11-16 6:19 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 6:24 PM (#17145 - in reply to #17017) (#17145) TopPosts: 164
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greenhorn posted @ 2014-11-16 6:24 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 6:30 PM (#17146 - in reply to #17139) (#17146) TopCountry : India
debmohanty posted @ 2014-11-16 6:30 PM
purvishah - 2014-11-16 12:38 PM
Nice puzzles. This one was the first for me as came to know about sudoku mahabhrat just 3-4 days back.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance.
Nice puzzles. This one was the first for me as came to know about sudoku mahabhrat just 3-4 days back.
so due to insufficient practice couldn't do that well. But tried my best. Enjoyed it!! looking forward to the next ones.
Thanks Deb Mohanty for the guidance.
Thanks for the feedback.
I think you have got a good score considering that 1) this is your first participation 2) there are no submission from you in last 30 minutes or so.
@ 2014-11-16 7:30 PM (#17147 - in reply to #17017) (#17147) TopPosts: 43
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davep posted @ 2014-11-16 7:30 PM
Deb - excellent set of puzzles my friend! I was making very good time until the large quadro. Made a goofy mistake early on, and took way too long trying to fix it. Not only did I still get that one wrong, but I cost myself the extra few minutes I needed to finish the last puzzle. Nevertheless, enjoyable as always. Regards to the LMI crew, Dave
@ 2014-11-16 7:44 PM (#17148 - in reply to #17017) (#17148) TopPosts: 329
Country : India
neerajmehrotra posted @ 2014-11-16 7:44 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-16 9:15 PM (#17149 - in reply to #17146) (#17149) TopPosts: 15
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purvishah posted @ 2014-11-16 9:15 PM
Thank you.
I did practice from the booklets of earlier rounds and insructions booklet of odd and even variations,as you had suggested.
Not new to sudoku completely. I participated in the Bombay Times Competition last year and had managed to clear the first round.
Thanks.
I did practice from the booklets of earlier rounds and insructions booklet of odd and even variations,as you had suggested.
Not new to sudoku completely. I participated in the Bombay Times Competition last year and had managed to clear the first round.
Thanks.
@ 2014-11-16 10:34 PM (#17150 - in reply to #17017) (#17150) TopPosts: 419
Country : India
kishy72 posted @ 2014-11-16 10:34 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Encompassing the less common variants,this episode of SM turned out to be very difficult for me.With about 2 minutes left on the clock and 25 odd cells to be filled in the odd even count(15),I made a desperate attempt and guessed at 2 circled cells knowing that chances of finishing it logically are close to nil.Thankfully and luckily,the guesses turned out to be right and the time was just enough to submit the 2 answer keys .
Even though the outcome is that I have completed all,I'm not content with the way that I solved this test,
as I remember resorting to guesswork in 3 sudokus atleast.
Oddly,my favourites in this test or the ones that I enjoyed solving the most are the classics as the rest were mostly a kind of struggle between me and the sudokus.I wasted a lot of time on the first sudoku that I attempted(Odd even count(5)) just like in the last episode.Got broken twice and then noticed the logical continuation.Not a great thing to experience at the beginning of a test.
So to conclude,an interesting and a very difficult test.Not surprising though,because the author is Deb!.
The sudokus were excellently constructed .Thanks a lot for a great test Deb.
@ 2014-11-17 12:11 AM (#17151 - in reply to #17150) (#17151) TopPosts: 1801
Country : India
prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-11-17 12:11 AM
kishy72 - 2014-11-16 10:34 PM
Encompassing the less common variants,this episode of SM turned out to be very difficult for me.With about 2 minutes left on the clock and 25 odd cells to be filled in the odd even count(15),I made a desperate attempt and guessed at 2 circled cells knowing that chances of finishing it logically are close to nil.Thankfully and luckily,the guesses turned out to be right and the time was just enough to submit the 2 answer keys .
Even though the outcome is that I have completed all,I'm not content with the way that I solved this test,
as I remember resorting to guesswork in 3 sudokus atleast.
Oddly,my favourites in this test or the ones that I enjoyed solving the most are the classics as the rest were mostly a kind of struggle between me and the sudokus.I wasted a lot of time on the first sudoku that I attempted(Odd even count(5)) just like in the last episode.Got broken twice and then noticed the logical continuation.Not a great thing to experience at the beginning of a test.
So to conclude,an interesting and a very difficult test.Not surprising though,because the author is Deb!.
The sudokus were excellently constructed .Thanks a lot for a great test Deb.
Encompassing the less common variants,this episode of SM turned out to be very difficult for me.With about 2 minutes left on the clock and 25 odd cells to be filled in the odd even count(15),I made a desperate attempt and guessed at 2 circled cells knowing that chances of finishing it logically are close to nil.Thankfully and luckily,the guesses turned out to be right and the time was just enough to submit the 2 answer keys .
Even though the outcome is that I have completed all,I'm not content with the way that I solved this test,
as I remember resorting to guesswork in 3 sudokus atleast.
Oddly,my favourites in this test or the ones that I enjoyed solving the most are the classics as the rest were mostly a kind of struggle between me and the sudokus.I wasted a lot of time on the first sudoku that I attempted(Odd even count(5)) just like in the last episode.Got broken twice and then noticed the logical continuation.Not a great thing to experience at the beginning of a test.
So to conclude,an interesting and a very difficult test.Not surprising though,because the author is Deb!.
The sudokus were excellently constructed .Thanks a lot for a great test Deb.
This is interesting because overall (including the Chain) I found Round 3 easier than Round 2. Maybe you are just not familiar with the O-E marking ways to make these puzzles easier? I am bringing up this point mainly because this is one of the reasons for categorizing the variants - to discuss specific techniques that may be common to a category.
My only pause was on the 6x6 Odd Sum Pair because I was being stupid with eliminating a possibility I shouldn't have. Everything else went pretty smoothly.
@ 2014-11-17 1:26 AM (#17152 - in reply to #17151) (#17152) TopPosts: 419
Country : India
kishy72 posted @ 2014-11-17 1:26 AM
prasanna16391 - 2014-11-17 12:11 AM
This is interesting because overall (including the Chain) I found Round 3 easier than Round 2.
This is interesting because overall (including the Chain) I found Round 3 easier than Round 2.
Subjective, I guess.I managed to finish episode 2 in about 65 mins and the current one dragged me until the very last.So you can pretty much sum up how difficult it was for me.
Maybe you are just not familiar with the O-E marking ways to make these puzzles easier? I am bringing up this point mainly because this is one of the reasons for categorizing the variants - to discuss specific techniques that may be common to a category.
You have hit the nail on the head.I too felt that the lack of familiarity with those O-E marking hurt me a lot.Also, I probably should have solved the example puzzles of the new variants like Odd sum pair and Odd Even count which I failed to do......
@ 2014-11-17 1:28 AM (#17153 - in reply to #17017) (#17153) TopPosts: 43
Country : United States
davep posted @ 2014-11-17 1:28 AM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-17 7:28 PM (#17158 - in reply to #17017) (#17158) TopPosts: 6
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Maksim posted @ 2014-11-17 7:28 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-17 8:59 PM (#17160 - in reply to #17017) (#17160) TopPosts: 28
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puzzlemad posted @ 2014-11-17 8:59 PM
Thanks for these. First competition for me for ages and no wrong submissions either. :)
@ 2014-11-17 9:02 PM (#17161 - in reply to #17017) (#17161) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-17 9:02 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-17 9:06 PM (#17162 - in reply to #17017) (#17162) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2014-11-17 9:06 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-17 9:31 PM (#17163 - in reply to #17017) (#17163) TopPosts: 28
Country : United Kingdom
puzzlemad posted @ 2014-11-17 9:31 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
I don't know if it was my printer, but I found the shading on the cells for teh even sudoku very dark. I'd actually printed the example booklet off a different printer and that was fine.
@ 2014-11-17 9:56 PM (#17164 - in reply to #17152) (#17164) TopPosts: 1801
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prasanna16391 posted @ 2014-11-17 9:56 PM
kishy72 - 2014-11-17 1:26 AM
You have hit the nail on the head.I too felt that the lack of familiarity with those O-E marking hurt me a lot.Also, I probably should have solved the example puzzles of the new variants like Odd sum pair and Odd Even count which I failed to do......
You have hit the nail on the head.I too felt that the lack of familiarity with those O-E marking hurt me a lot.Also, I probably should have solved the example puzzles of the new variants like Odd sum pair and Odd Even count which I failed to do......
The way I see it is, now you have a better idea where your strengths and weaknesses are, and that's a net positive to take out of it ;) I generally just circle the odds. Might be better markings out there, but practicing the types basically lets you try out such markings, and grow accustomed to the ones that suit you specifically.
@ 2014-11-17 11:31 PM (#17165 - in reply to #17017) (#17165) TopPosts: 542
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rajeshk posted @ 2014-11-17 11:31 PM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2014-11-18 4:02 AM (#17167 - in reply to #17017) (#17167) TopPosts: 7
Country : United States
easonrevant posted @ 2014-11-18 4:02 AM
| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | representation could have been better | |
| What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many easy puzzles | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Average | |
| Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount |