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Posts: 18 Country : Germany | Nola posted @ 2015-03-15 12:31 AM
Maybe the difficult puzzles should get more points than the easier ones instead of 50 points each. Yes, the opinion about difficulty is different, but the overall order was quiet correct and maybe the number of solvers can be an additional hint. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 59 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | bob posted @ 2015-03-15 4:21 AM Three favorites--scrabble with loop, meandering numbers, summon. The summon puzzle was quite hard, but it had a satisfying learning curve for me. This was a new puzzle type for me. Overall quality--simply excellent. Beautiful thematic construction and several novel puzzles/variants to me. No website or printing problems whatsoever. I found the puzzles somewhat unbalanced. In particular, the Regional Coded Snake was utterly impossible for me, far more difficult than summon (the second hardest). Normal snake puzzles are a bit of a slog, trying out various bits and pieces until all of the numbers fit. But, here there is only a code. So it is trial and error and error and error and error and error... I put in over 6 hours over three separate evenings just on this one puzzle, far more than any of the others, and far beyond when it stopped being fun. I gave up for the first time ever. Just gave up. Ugh do I detest snake puzzles. Every change I tried would break one of the complex rules, usually on the other side of the board. So it was a bit of a wash...the snake puzzle attempts detracted from some of the pleasure from solving the others. Just my opinion...some people seem to have a natural intuition of where snake segments go and where the critical spots are. I most definitely do not. The other puzzles seemed appropriately categorized although the Nurikabe seemed not so easy. Rules, points, scoring--doesn't really matter. I solve mainly for fun and for the challenge. I do respect those who can fly through these things. Thank you, authors/constructors. And thanks LMI for setting this up. I do enjoy large, hard puzzles occasionally, and they are hard to find even on the internet. Most puzzles are snacks, these are banquets. Bob | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-03-15 10:37 AM Puzzle Marathon 2015 ends tonightPlease note that the Puzzle Marathon ends at 3/16/2015 5:29:59 AM IST | 3/15/2015 11:59:59 PM GMT | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 1 Country : China | PuzzlePanda posted @ 2015-03-15 3:46 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-15 3:56 PM
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Posts: 29 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | Nilz posted @ 2015-03-15 8:29 PM
This is always one of my favourite contests, so thanks to everyone involved. However, I think I did prefer last year's marathon, overall. This year's puzzles just seemed slightly too difficult- in particular, I found a large jump in difficulty between the easy ones and the medium ones. There was still some nice logic in some of the hard ones though, so I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more without the pressure of the clock! | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-15 8:34 PM
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Posts: 35 ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Bram28 posted @ 2015-03-15 10:40 PM
Always my favorite annual contest!!! Many thanks to the authors for the beautifully crafted puzzles! I found the puzzles on average harder than in previous marathon contexts though, so for average puzzlers it was hard to stay under an hour for any of the medium/hard puzzles. As a result, the final score and ranking was very much determined by the easy puzzles alone. | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-03-15 11:29 PM ExtensionBased on multiple requests, we are extending this contest by 24 hours. So it now ends at 11:59:59 PM GMT on 16th March.Timings on submission page shall be updated soon. | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-15 11:45 PM
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-03-16 2:28 AM Could someone give some tips on how to start the summon (once the competition is over of course)? I was very lost on that one and basically made no progress on it. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 42 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | PuzzleScott posted @ 2015-03-16 3:25 AM There should be no restriction when a puzzle can be started. Currently, when one puzzle is started, other puzzles cannot be started for some time period. The only purpose this serves is to remove options and cause annoyance for people with limited time. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 29 ![]() Country : Canada | ksun48 posted @ 2015-03-16 3:51 AM Great puzzles! Especially liked the Hidoku, Fillomino, and Statue Park. I'd say the Summon and RC Snake seemed too hard for an LMI contest, but they were fun anyway.P.S. I don't think the score sheet is sorting my 11315:21 on RC Snake correctly :P | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-16 3:54 AM
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-03-16 4:41 AM One way to fix this issue would be to have incorrect answers add time to the clock instead of just giving a penalty. That way if people really want to skip puzzles they've already started, they could just submit incorrect answers until the timer is over an hour, as opposed to waiting however long. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 83 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2015-03-16 6:28 AM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-03-16 6:34 AM PuzzleScott - 2015-03-16 3:25 AM There should be no restriction when a puzzle can be started. Currently, when one puzzle is started, other puzzles cannot be started for some time period. The only purpose this serves is to remove options and cause annoyance for people with limited time. There always have been a 1 hour wait period before one could start a new puzzle. But since it is last 24 hours, the wait period is removed. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 31 ![]() Country : United States | RALehrer posted @ 2015-03-16 8:29 AM
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Posts: 55 ![]() ![]() Country : India | ashaash11ash posted @ 2015-03-16 10:38 AM Thanks for your feedback about the regional coded snake. :) i never thought it would be so hard to solve it. being first puzzle contributed in LMI website for a competition, i was excited to make it something different and quite tough, but it went out to be more tough than i expected :) I will see to it that it never happens in upcoming future test. Thanks for all of your feedback :) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 43 ![]() ![]() Country : Japan | xevs posted @ 2015-03-16 12:15 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-16 12:43 PM
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Posts: 23 ![]() Country : Australia | flk posted @ 2015-03-16 4:22 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-16 7:37 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-03-17 2:16 AM
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Posts: 5 Country : Poland | karzym posted @ 2015-03-17 2:37 AM Nice puzzles. I thought Nurikabe was easier. The most puzzle I like is Summon even if it was hard, the least - Snake, I hate snakes, even more like spiders than those ba******. :) Can someone post the solution for this? (it can be priv message) After 2 hours of tortures I've got this http://i.imgur.com/PCQgIXt.jpg and wanted to throw my computer out of the window. Yeah, I know about the mistakes at the bottom and on the top... |