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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-29 10:31 PM chaotic_iak - 2015-12-29 10:22 PM > The answer for the example would be: The instruction booklet doesn't finish the sentence. Is that "111, 3, 111"? :) I missed the line. Next version of IB has uploaded, and yes the solution is 111,3,111 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-29 10:38 PM chaotic_iak - 2015-12-29 10:29 PM Tapa with Borders: Are the clues outside the small grid guaranteed to be false, or only that they don't matter (they can be true or false)? You can check the TVC V, we used this puzzle in there. Normally the grid sizes should be given, but this time I didn't. Outside clues can be true or false, it doesn't matter. We need to find a correct Tapa puzzle with a squared sized grid, other clues outside the grid are irrelevant. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 34 ![]() Country : Turkey | bskbri posted @ 2015-12-29 11:30 PM Will instant grading be used, or not? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 170 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2015-12-30 12:09 AM For Tapa Magic, digits must be non-zero? For Tapa Logic and Knapp Daneben Tapa, a clue with only zeros means no shaded cells, while a clue with some zeros and some non-zero digits, the zeros are ignored? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-30 12:28 AM bskbri - 2015-12-29 11:30 PM Will instant grading be used, or not? No we don't use | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-30 12:46 AM rob - 2015-12-30 12:09 AM For Tapa Magic, digits must be non-zero? For Tapa Logic and Knapp Daneben Tapa, a clue with only zeros means no shaded cells, while a clue with some zeros and some non-zero digits, the zeros are ignored? 1. Yes, digits must be non zero 2. For Knapp Daneben Tapa, if a clue contain zero/s all of them must be 1, but if I remember correctly I don't use zeros in this type. For Tapa Logic, if a clue is formed with just zeros there are no blackened cells around the cell; if a clue contain some zeros and digits, you should ignore the zero/s. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 170 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2015-12-30 12:53 AM yureklis - 2015-12-30 12:46 AM rob - 2015-12-30 12:09 AM For Tapa Magic, digits must be non-zero? For Tapa Logic and Knapp Daneben Tapa, a clue with only zeros means no shaded cells, while a clue with some zeros and some non-zero digits, the zeros are ignored? 1. Yes, digits must be non zero 2. For Knapp Daneben Tapa, if a clue contain zero/s all of them must be 1, but if I remember correctly I don't use zeros in this type. For Tapa Logic, if a clue is formed with just zeros there are no blackened cells around the cell; if a clue contain some zeros and digits, you should ignore the zero/s. Thanks. For Knapp Daneben, I was thinking of clues that become zeros. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2015-12-30 1:53 AM Could you explain how the extra time and penalties work? | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2015-12-30 8:04 AM ghirsch - 2015-12-30 1:53 AM Could you explain how the extra time and penalties work? The contest length is 75 minutes, however you can submit after 75 minutes, upto 80 minutes. This 5 minutes is "extra time" or "grace period". A penalty will be imposed if you submit during extra time (irrespective of whether the puzzle is correct or not). The penalty amount will be announced before the contest starts. For your reference, we used 5 points per minute in TVC XIII and 15 points per minute in TVC XVI. The timer in the submission page will have two components. The extra time will be in red color. Additionally, you will also be able to see how much penalty you will get if you submit right at that moment. Normal timer ![]() Timer during grace period ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 315 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2015-12-30 10:31 AM Come on. I don't want to actually have to defend my title. Can we just cancel this? ;) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 315 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2015-12-30 10:42 AM In Tapa Borders will the size of the square be known in the puzzle booklet or do you have to work that out? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-30 1:40 PM Para - 2015-12-30 10:31 AM Come on. I don't want to actually have to defend my title. Can we just cancel this? ;) :) eheheee, You must :) Will you prepare practice puzzles and share with others in your blog, as you made before? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-30 1:41 PM Para - 2015-12-30 10:42 AM In Tapa Borders will the size of the square be known in the puzzle booklet or do you have to work that out? Yes, we will give the size of the square in the puzzle booklet. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 1800 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2015-12-30 8:29 PM yureklis - 2015-12-30 1:40 PM Para - 2015-12-30 10:31 AM Come on. I don't want to actually have to defend my title. Can we just cancel this? ;) :) eheheee, You must :) Will you prepare practice puzzles and share with others in your blog, as you made before? Clearly he should continue this winning strategy. ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2015-12-30 8:49 PM prasanna16391 - 2015-12-30 8:29 PM yureklis - 2015-12-30 1:40 PM Para - 2015-12-30 10:31 AM Come on. I don't want to actually have to defend my title. Can we just cancel this? ;) :) eheheee, You must :) Will you prepare practice puzzles and share with others in your blog, as you made before? Clearly he should continue this winning strategy. ![]() Ahahaha this is good one :)))) I never thought like that. Yeee, I'm getting now why Bram prepared so many TVC practice puzzles :) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 315 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2015-12-30 9:47 PM yureklis - 2015-12-30 1:40 PM Para - 2015-12-30 10:31 AM Come on. I don't want to actually have to defend my title. Can we just cancel this? ;) :) eheheee, You must :) Will you prepare practice puzzles and share with others in your blog, as you made before? I assume this answers your question. :) http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/tvc-xvii-practise-par... | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-01-02 4:29 AM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-01-02 8:21 AM Link to score page : http://logicmastersindia.com/TVC/XVII/score.asp | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2016-01-02 9:00 AM
Thanks for a fun test. I especially liked the TAPA LOGIC, and the Tapa Magic puzzles. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 1 Country : India | logiclord posted @ 2016-01-02 9:16 AM I am a newbie..Could you please tell me the password of the puzzle booklet? | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-01-02 9:28 AM logiclord - 2016-01-02 9:16 AM We will not be posting the password here in the forum. You need to login at the submission page ( http://logicmastersindia.com/TVC/XVII/ ), start the test, and you will get the password. I am a newbie..Could you please tell me the password of the puzzle booklet? You might want to read the F.A.Q. about this. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2016-01-02 11:11 AM
Puzzles were nice. At some points I needed to bifurcate, but that's probably due to time pressure, not finding a more logical way quickly enough. The only complaint is perhaps Alternative Tapa; the grid is too big, so scanning which letters have been covered is difficult (see: Hitori puzzles), and the existence of letters occurring only once made me to reconsider for a moment whether it's possible for a letter to not have any shaded cell at all. (It said "only one of them are passed by the wall", not "exactly one", so that thought crossed my mind. At the end I just assumed it's a linguistic mistake.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-01-02 4:56 PM Clarification on Alternative TapaIf any letter is appearing exactly once in the grid, the corresponding cell must be part of the wall. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 139 ![]() ![]() Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2016-01-02 6:53 PM
Outside Tapa was much cheaper in my opinion - well nice points to me with small time. Tapa without borders were too cheap in my opinion - hard points from there for me. I really enjoyed the first one. really nice puzzle and with very good outer look. It was hard (also was expensive if I look it now) but was a good introduction to the contest. I was thinking about Florian during solving the puzzles (especially the first one) and reminded some good times we had together. Not much time of that but still something. We had some conversations more in BIST2012 as there were not so many from outside of China and we hanged out quite a lot together. I feel great that I have had many chances to meet him and am very sad about what happened. He was a great person with an extremely good humour sense. Also thanks to the creators of the puzzles. I really enjoyed it. | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2016-01-02 11:07 PM
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