Some really great puzzles in the test.
Had a really smooth run in the classics.

Loved the incomplete killer and the kind of logic involved to solve it.
Could not get around to solve the blackout sum sudoku and will give it a shot at leisure.

Thanks for creating such a wonderful set.

The food was excellent. Besides, I'm so gourmand that after 2 hours I had not finished eating.

Which course do you like best?

dessert was not light, but very good

It was a pleasure to meet you too. You did a great job this time.

Thankfully I did not leave any blank cells this time

Actually I did but fortunately corrected it before time was up.. lol

Not like me

Bad luck Fred. The 2 missed cells will cost you at least 2 ranks :-)

Ooops.... Fred, I thought leaving blank cells was my prerogative...sorry to hear that..............

Usually I don't make too many mistakes of this kind . This time I just loose 15 points, I can live with that

I hope they are 2 nice people

hi
good contest as usual

there is something i do not understand
I submitted my solution to diagram #. I made a mistake in copying (in fact I copied the last 3 digits fromthe upper row). I clicked on "submit"
Immediately after I noticed the mistake, amended the 3 cells, and sumbitted again. However the result shown in the table is the first submission (wrong)
What is the problem? Perhaps did I NOT click stongly enough on the SUBMIT button the second time? Or there is a routine which saves only the first submission?
Could you have a look?
thank you
stefano

Hi Stefano, the only possibility I can think of is when you submitted the 2nd time, your 120 minutes were over. Is that the case?

Congratulations to Thomas, Rishi and Michael for topping in Hot Pot.
Looks like everyone liked the dishes :-) Many thanks to the authors for the nice Sudoku set.

133 out of 158 participants got non-zero scores.

no, i did it immediately after (and there were 20 minutes at least to go)
stefano

Many thanks to Ours brun who tested all the Sudokus for LMI.

There was a Fed-Sudoku Party this weekend, and they also enjoyed Sudoku HotPot test offline.
Thanks to mtronic who collected the results and sent in quick time.

There were 17 participants. In the score page their country is marked as *Fed-Party*

Thanks to TThSieh, jcvb, cpickerel, Ours brun for coming up with excellent sudokus.

I am not a big fan of classics and diagonal, so I tried only a few in the end. Had I seen Tejal's comments before starting the test, perhaps I would have tried them all first.

Among the variations, the PI sudoku, surprisingly, turned out to be the toughest - I think one reason was the difficulty in marking the numbers online. Also, I was not totally clear (initially) whether the 3 in the second row would be part of the sequence or not. Then I concluded it must be part of the sequence and an intended starting point for solving. Among the "expected to be tough" variations, I found the Blackout sum sudoku very easy, as compared to the points allotted. Incomplete killer had a beautiful piece of logic going for it, as mentioned earlier ("jaw-dropping") and I am glad I tried it at the start. If I had tried it towards the end, it would not have got done. Here, I wasted quite some time in identifying that the top left 2-cell box must have sum 12 or above. After that, it was easier. As for outside sudoku, I could not give it a fair attempt in the time given. Again, that puzzle could perhaps have been better solved offline.

The Incomplete Killer indeed had a great piece of logic. May be it will help if we can have a write up on the logic. Any takers?

I can do it if you wish Deb... I really loved the concept and the logic behind it :)

please do it.

Heartiest congratulations to all the winners......and special congratulations to Rishi for coming second only to Thomas.......Grt job...
I missed it Thanx to BSNL....no internet for last 3 days.........

Thanks Neeraj... I seriously didnt expect to see my name there.... When I completed I thought atleast a top 5 finish

PI Sudoku (Sequence) was the least solved one.
Was it just too difficult OR instructions were not clear?

It was clear but I presume people overlooked the fact that in every row even if grey cells are not connected, the numbers have to be in sequential order from the given sequence... in my discussions with players, they assumed every individual grey cell will have an individual number from the sequence.

Rishi