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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-09-12 1:48 PM
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Posts: 419 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-09-12 2:05 PM
That was an absolute feast of sudokus! Thanks Aditi and Prasanna for authoring a wonderful test.The sudokus were hard and testing.If I may add,this test should be a bit harsh on the beginners but it really must provide an excellent challenge to the veteran solvers.I anticipate the number of solvers who complete the test to be much lesser than the previous episode.Overall, this can be treated as an opportunity for the beginners to get some new ideas and understand more about tough sudokus in general. Repeated Neighbours was the hardest of the lot followed by Touchy and they certainly justified their points worth.I find it difficult to choose my favourites as I enjoyed solving almost all.However,the standouts for me were Renban(7),Quadruple(11) and Thermo(9) in that order .Good to see young Aditi entering into the fray of Indian authors.This bodes well for the future. ---Kishore--- | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 139 ![]() ![]() Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2015-09-12 2:08 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-09-12 2:12 PM
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Posts: 225 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2015-09-12 2:21 PM Lovely set of sudokus! I really liked the new gimmick on Quadruple Sudoku. Am I the only one who found the second Repeated Neighbours very tough? I thought that puzzle was rather unfairly more difficult than the second-hardest one in the lot. There's people with 17/18 but have very good times. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 1800 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2015-09-12 2:27 PM tamz29 - 2015-09-12 2:21 PM Lovely set of sudokus! I really liked the new gimmick on Quadruple Sudoku. Am I the only one who found the second Repeated Neighbours very tough? I thought that puzzle was rather unfairly more difficult than the second-hardest one in the lot. There's people with 17/18 but have very good times. It does seem to have been very tough going by the timings. I had both Deb and Rishi solve that one and had no issues (Rishi actually took longer on Touchy and still had a total testing time which was around 2 min more than his time for R1), but I guess it is a big strength for both of them. You need to get three pairs of repeating digits in each quadrant. I think it is possible to get those just by looking at the grid, but Jan Zverina says he missed the middle one and Tiit also says he missed the middle one for a while. So it might just be that. Was your experience of difficulty somewhere else? | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 225 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2015-09-12 7:01 PM I just took long to get the insight that there has to be three pairs in each 'region'. Even knowing that, I ended up bifurcating to get my answer. Nonetheless, it was a beautiful puzzle, requiring leaps of insight, one I would be happy with if I had wrote it :) | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 42 ![]() ![]() Country : ITALY | ingmanc posted @ 2015-09-12 7:32 PM
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Posts: 26 ![]() Country : Finland | peluri posted @ 2015-09-12 10:12 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-09-13 12:45 AM
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Posts: 42 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | PuzzleScott posted @ 2015-09-13 7:07 AM Feedback tool hangs for me (flash). Good variations for the theme. I personally liked the easy/hard distributiion -- probably too many hard ones for beginners though. Excellent puzzle quality! Some real delights. Point values seems pretty fair. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 114 ![]() Country : India | devarajand posted @ 2015-09-13 10:43 AM Prasanna's class stamped all over, including IB | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 114 ![]() Country : India | devarajand posted @ 2015-09-13 10:49 AM
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Posts: 191 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2015-09-13 12:05 PM
In my opinion, the neighbours theme sees on direct relationships between two orthogonal connected cells. Renban and Quadruple are a little bit off this theme. But: I enjoyed the test very much. Really nice aesthetics and solving routes. Maybe a bit on the hard side for beginners, exactly the right difficulty level for me! Thanks a lot! | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 22 ![]() Country : India | tnv posted @ 2015-09-13 12:17 PM
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Posts: 1800 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2015-09-13 12:17 PM devarajand - 2015-09-13 10:43 AM Prasanna's class stamped all over, including IB Thanks, but the IB is mostly by Deb :) The Repeated Neighbours 9x9 and the Thermo 9x9 at least are from previous contests I remember. Much easier to re-use than re-write for IBs. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 25 ![]() Country : South Korea | Kwaka posted @ 2015-09-13 4:52 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2015-09-13 5:22 PM
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-09-13 8:47 PM
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Posts: 44 ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2015-09-13 9:42 PM
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Posts: 774 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2015-09-14 12:07 AM
Nice puzzles. My top three: Quadruple, Touchy and Repeated Neighbours. As noted by Richard, technically, Renban and Quadruple do not necesarily belong to 'Neighbours' theme. Also, there is a variant by the name 'Neighbours' which could have been included to represent the theme better. The rule change in Quadruple came in fairly late and it made the variant tougher too. | ||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2015-09-14 6:05 AM rakesh_rai - 2015-09-14 12:07 AM Please elaborate. As noted by Richard, technically, Renban and Quadruple do not necesarily belong to 'Neighbours' theme. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 774 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2015-09-14 8:00 AM debmohanty - 2015-09-14 6:05 AM rakesh_rai - 2015-09-14 12:07 AM Please elaborate. As noted by Richard, technically, Renban and Quadruple do not necesarily belong to 'Neighbours' theme. The statement assumes Neighbours being interpreted as "direct relationships between two orthogonal connected cells" | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 24 ![]() Country : India | lrani posted @ 2015-09-14 8:17 AM
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Posts: 24 ![]() Country : India | lrani posted @ 2015-09-14 8:22 AM Can someone help explain me how to solve the Repeated neighbours 9X9 puzzle. I understood the rule and I was able to identify the orthogonally connected cells which will have same values but still couldnt solve it.. Found this one to be too tough.... |