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Posts: 774 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2015-12-27 8:14 AM
Solved logically rather than intuitively, and it took a lot more time perhaps than it should have taken. I was too slow and could not even lay hands on any of the toroidals or exploratory ones. But I liked all the puzzles I solved. Somehow my expecatations before the test were high for this test, and I was expecting 80+ points but fell short by a lot in the end. The test turned out a little tougher than expected. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 668 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2015-12-27 9:25 AM
Another beautiful set of Puzzles. That's surprising that, I am ahead of others in Indian contingent. Thought Rohan would be way ahead. Personally, I don't like snakes and I am very bad at those. But somehow these puzzles i went logically and fluently. Especially I liked the Summed Snake (ALL 4 , didn't had to do lot of calculations and it was more intuitive how the path should go). Only part where I guessed was the classic SNAKE big one. This test itself was on harder side, but was expected after last easy round. I second Rohan that, I couldn't even do any toroidal (not even smaller ones). But lets see, will try soon and see if I can still get it. Horse Snake,while practicing i found a nice notation technique for myself (don't know how other solve usually), which helped a lot and that worked out well during contest too. So horse snake i did pretty smoothly. Graffiti were easy, that was reflected in points as well. Even the variant was small in size so pretty easy. Multiple Snakes, not even got a chance to touch it. Overall wonderful test. Thanks Ashish for the contest. I thought I would do bad, but seems I did pretty well. Let's see how others do. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 23 ![]() Country : United States | thesubro posted @ 2015-12-27 10:59 AM
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-12-27 11:56 AM
Definitely a tougher test for me, but still lots of fun. I broke a lot of the puzzles from trying to go too quickly, but the ones that I did finish I really enjoyed and I'm looking forward to sitting down with them and going through more carefully. I especially liked the summed snakes, and the horse snakes. Those toroidal snakes were brutal though. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2015-12-27 4:39 PM It's interesting that many people find this test to be tough, since for me I find it pretty easy. (Finished all puzzles in 70 minutes, comparable to last test's 60 minutes.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 739 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-12-27 4:50 PM chaotic_iak - 2015-12-27 4:39 PM It's interesting that many people find this test to be tough, since for me I find it pretty easy. (Finished all puzzles in 70 minutes, comparable to last test's 60 minutes.) I think players have strong and weak areas. I could blaze through the Regions round in 47-minutes whereas I scored just 57 points here after 90-minutes :-| Also, being a single puzzle type, it widens the points gap between the players. Besides, you did quite well in SVC 2015 too! | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-12-27 7:33 PM We are facing some unexpected problems with the LMI server. Although the web site is accessible now, some of the features do not seem to be working. All the issues are fixed now, and it is back to normal. | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-12-28 6:39 AM Site issuesAll the site issues are fixed now, and site is back to normal. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2015-12-28 7:07 AM Rohan Rao - 2015-12-27 7:50 PM chaotic_iak - 2015-12-27 4:39 PM It's interesting that many people find this test to be tough, since for me I find it pretty easy. (Finished all puzzles in 70 minutes, comparable to last test's 60 minutes.) I think players have strong and weak areas. I could blaze through the Regions round in 47-minutes whereas I scored just 57 points here after 90-minutes :-| Also, being a single puzzle type, it widens the points gap between the players. Besides, you did quite well in SVC 2015 too! Oh right, there is SVC just 1.5 months ago. Yes, it might just because I'm stronger in Snakes, although then again I finished SVC in 56 out of 60 minutes and this one in 71 out of 90 minutes, meaning this should be slightly easier than SVC. But I already forgot how difficult SVC was. Oh well. Still a good test regardless of difficulty. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 164 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Slovakia | greenhorn posted @ 2015-12-28 7:46 AM Administrator - 2015-12-27 7:33 PM We are facing some unexpected problems with the LMI server. Although the web site is accessible now, some of the features do not seem to be working. All the issues are fixed now, and it is back to normal. I have started the competition around 15:30 GMT+2, few minutes before the breakdown, so I could not submit my solutions. It is not important now, I just want to mention that I still cannot read the comments and observe the results. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-12-28 8:27 AM chaotic_iak - 2015-12-26 5:39 PM It's interesting that many people find this test to be tough, since for me I find it pretty easy. (Finished all puzzles in 70 minutes, comparable to last test's 60 minutes.) One thing I personally find difficult about snakes is that it often leads me to trying intuitive solves, and I'm still not great with that during competitions. If everything goes well then great, it's fast, but if not I have to decide how much time to spend trying to tweak the solution, or scrapping portions of it, or just moving on to other puzzles, and I sometimes end up wasting a lot of time. That's more of just a personal thing though that I need to fix, not anything inherently difficult about the type. After looking through the puzzles again though I agree with you that most of them weren't too difficult (though I still think that some of those toroidal snakes were pretty tricky). | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 44 ![]() ![]() Country : Russia | AndreyBogdanov posted @ 2015-12-28 2:26 PM What is the duration of the test? Sorry for silly question, but I couldn't find this in the instruction booklet. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 24 ![]() Country : Poland | wgryciuk posted @ 2015-12-28 3:16 PM
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Posts: 739 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | vopani posted @ 2015-12-28 3:38 PM AndreyBogdanov - 2015-12-28 2:26 PM What is the duration of the test? Sorry for silly question, but I couldn't find this in the instruction booklet. Thanks for pointing it out. The duration is 90-minutes. Timings are mentioned on the submission page too: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201512/ The line about timings seems to have got deleted from the IB. It is present in the previous PR rounds. It will be added from the next round again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 542 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2015-12-28 6:09 PM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-12-28 7:41 PM Contest extendedDue to the issues with the site, the contest has been extended by 48 hours. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 6 Country : India | shankarsudhir posted @ 2015-12-28 8:20 PM Just wanted to confirm if the deadline for the test has been extended by an extra two days ? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 44 ![]() ![]() Country : Russia | AndreyBogdanov posted @ 2015-12-28 8:57 PM
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Posts: 44 ![]() ![]() Country : Russia | AndreyBogdanov posted @ 2015-12-28 9:02 PM Rohan Rao - 2015-12-28 1:38 PM Timings are mentioned on the submission page too: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201512/ Thank you. Sorry, I didn't understand, that I can click on the "Timing" word. Edited by AndreyBogdanov 2015-12-28 9:02 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2015-12-28 9:48 PM shankarsudhir - 2015-12-28 8:20 PM That is right.Just wanted to confirm if the deadline for the test has been extended by an extra two days ? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 59 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | bob posted @ 2015-12-28 10:43 PM
Well, that was annoying. I'll be honest, I have never cared much for snake puzzles--too much intuition (=bifurcation for me). I solved all of the grafitti snake puzzles, which seem the most logical. I did the first three regular snakes. I wasted about 30 minutes on the last one but never got the right combination of turns. I then wasted about 30 minutes on the first "easy" toroidal snake and got nowhere. Summed snake--all the "fun" of trial and error combined with lots of arithmetic? No thanks, and there was no time anyway. Ugh, thoroughly frustrating and now I dislike snake puzzles more than ever. To those that can magically do these, kudos to you! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 44 ![]() ![]() Country : Russia | AndreyBogdanov posted @ 2015-12-28 11:55 PM Summed snake--all the "fun" of trial and error combined with lots of arithmetic? For my opinion summed was most logical puzzles in this contest. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 16 Country : United Kingdom | BohemianCoast posted @ 2015-12-29 1:10 AM I'm feeling a tiny bit hard done by because I started the contest, the site crashed almost immediately (as I was entering my first answer) and didn't come back until long after my 90 minutes were up. No worries really; I'm rubbish at Snake puzzles anyway. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 35 ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Bram28 posted @ 2015-12-29 2:49 AM Not a good time for my printer to refuse printing ... had to do them all by hand. Oh well! Nice puzzles anyway!! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 1800 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2015-12-29 5:10 AM Bram28 - 2015-12-29 2:49 AM Not a good time for my printer to refuse printing ... had to do them all by hand. Oh well! Nice puzzles anyway!! Interesting. If my printer had issues I'd just do this on MS Paint. In fact, I was debating with myself about solving this round on paint because I actually thought I'd be faster, but then I thought solving on paper will help me more with offline competitions and went with that. Still, I personally think Snake is a puzzle which can be done with the fill option on paint. The only variant from the contest for which I'd say its better on paper is Summed Snake. Our notations while solving the puzzle probably differ though. |