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kishy72
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Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-12-10 3:58 AM Here's a start that you can focus upon.Digits 7,8 and 9 will be in R1C9/R3C9 and R4C9 in some order.These are the only places these digits can be in the last column.After this ,6 can only be in R6C9 in Column 9 considering the bottom 7 clue.
Edited by kishy72 2015-12-10 4:11 AM
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | An easier way to look at it - R2,R5 and R9C9 form a 123 triplet, so anything in the other cells of C9 will block R2 and R5C9. Since only two places can be blocked for a 7 clue, these are your two places, and that means the remaining digits have to immediately be in order 4-5-6-7-8-9 in the other cells. |
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RameshLMI
Posts: 51
Country : India | Can someone suggest practice puzzles for X Sum Sudokus |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-12-11 8:22 AM |
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Richard
Posts: 191
Country : The Netherlands | Richard posted @ 2015-12-11 10:36 AM RameshLMI - 2015-12-10 10:39 PM
Can someone suggest practice puzzles for X Sum Sudokus
I have created one for my Sudoku Variants Series. You can find it here.
And there was a puzzle of this kind in the LMI-test Road to London from last year.
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vopani
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Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-12-11 12:27 PM |
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himan##007
Posts: 4
Country : India | sorry
Edited by himan##007 2015-12-11 11:36 PM
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rakesh_rai
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Country : India | | 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 medium difficult 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 | |
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ghirsch
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Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-12-12 3:41 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 | |
There were some fun variations here that I hadn't seen before. I especially liked the 2-3 and 2-3-4 sudokus and the X-sums. |
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-12-12 4:53 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? | 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
I felt that this test had harder classics and were under-valued compared to the Variants.This probably got accentuated by the fact that I just didn't solve the classics in the way they were meant to be solved. I was doing the variants really well and suddenly I thought that I had completed all of the variants when actually I had completed only 4 of the 5 variant types . As a result,crossed over to the classics wherein I suffered a lot even at the 'hands' of a 2 pointer.In hindsight,I should have solved the 2-3-4 rather than persisting with the classics a lot.Got to submit a few classics in the dying moments and salvage some points.This test comes in the category of the hard sets like Evergreen (PR ) and Maths (SM ) My favourites of the test are X-sums followed by skyscrapers.Really clean solve paths.Variants were really lovely and I enjoyed solving them a lot.Thanks for authoring the set Rishi. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-12-12 12:40 PM | 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 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 | |
nice outside variants, some new to me. A standard outside (1-2-3 outside for 9x9 ) would also have been highly desirable. |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-12-12 12:46 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Had a few stumbles, but enjoyed the set. Loved the 2-3-4 Outside 9x9 |
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Fred76
Posts: 337
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2015-12-12 4:23 PM Nice test !
Thanks Rishi ! |
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MrLiang
Posts: 44
Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2015-12-12 9:07 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 medium difficult 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 | |
I think some classic puzzles in this test are harder than others test. Otherwise, enjoy the outside clues variants, thanks. |
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Swagatam
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Country : India | | 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? | Fairly Nice | |
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justinlam3
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Country : Hong Kong | | 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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detuned
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Country : United Kingdom | detuned posted @ 2015-12-13 12:38 AM | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
A good solid test - I couldn't quite get the last puzzle out in time sadly. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-12-13 6:57 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-12-13 10:12 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2015-12-14 12:50 AM Strange.We have no contender finishing in the 90-100 range (so far).The Forbidden gap eh?!
100.6 and then a straight 12 points down directly to 88.6.Now, what are the odds of that happening ?! |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-12-14 1:00 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 | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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wgryciuk
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Country : Poland | | 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 | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2015-12-14 5:32 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 | |
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Rubben
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Country : Romania | Rubben posted @ 2015-12-14 8:25 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 | |
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puneet87
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Country : India | | 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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