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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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Posts: 69 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | Realshaggy posted @ 2016-01-03 2:03 AM Nice puzzles. Imho it should be clarified, that there may not be 0-clues in Magic Tapa, since this would cause non-uniqueness in the lower left corner. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 28 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | puzzlemad posted @ 2016-01-03 2:27 AM Thank you very much for these. It would help if I noticed things like the size of the area for the Tapa with Borders. The Florian theme was lovely - as TiiT says, I was thinking of him too whilst solving - in particular of the 24hr competitions. | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2016-01-03 12:26 PM
The fact that each puzzle's key has the letters ABC makes it very easy to enter the answer into the wrong puzzle. I did this several times before correcting them (in the end they were all right). But having them be "ABC" "DEF"etc would be helpful. Also it would be nice if the points were listed in the IB. Not in the first version, but in the final version. Thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 315 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-01-03 6:41 PM
Wooo. Full 0.2 points of bonus. Got stuck on the last Tapa Magic because I can't count to 2 (kept colouring 3 around a cell). When I saw my mistake I somehow managed to solve it and enter it just within the time limit in the last minute. Fun set. Will have to get back to the second Skyscraper to figure out a bit more of the logic. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 7 Country : Bulgaria | Deyan posted @ 2016-01-03 10:01 PM
The last puzzle allows a double solution (although with the same answer) It's good to avoid unnecessary graphics in booklets, which slow down printing | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 102 ![]() Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2016-01-03 11:04 PM Deyan - 2016-01-02 11:01 PM The last puzzle allows a double solution (although with the same answer) It's good to avoid unnecessary graphics in booklets, which slow down printing You should check again, I'm confident that it has only one solution. Maybe your alternate solution has some rows with repeated digits. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2016-01-03 11:18 PM Realshaggy - 2016-01-03 2:03 AM Nice puzzles. Imho it should be clarified, that there may not be 0-clues in Magic Tapa, since this would cause non-uniqueness in the lower left corner. Zero is not Classic Tapa clue. Tapa clues are from 1 to 8. If the zero is used in a varition we mention in the instruction. Moreover if the zero had been used in this variation, you would use the zero in clue cells with slash like 0/3, 0/1, 0/4. So it means there are tons of solutions. So you cannot use the zero in regular Tapa unless the instruction says 0-8 digits . | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 49 ![]() ![]() Country : France | Kithyane posted @ 2016-01-04 12:43 AM
Just started playing here at LMI for a few weeks (also working the backlog since 2010 on my free time), and for now the puzzles are really excellent. I haven't played a lot of tapa puzzles before, but it is a puzzle type I really like, and I look forward to do more ! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2016-01-04 12:57 AM yureklis - 2016-01-04 2:18 AM Realshaggy - 2016-01-03 2:03 AM Nice puzzles. Imho it should be clarified, that there may not be 0-clues in Magic Tapa, since this would cause non-uniqueness in the lower left corner. Zero is not Classic Tapa clue. Tapa clues are from 1 to 8. If the zero is used in a varition we mention in the instruction. Moreover if the zero had been used in this variation, you would use the zero in clue cells with slash like 0/3, 0/1, 0/4. So it means there are tons of solutions. So you cannot use the zero in regular Tapa unless the instruction says 0-8 digits . A single zero is a Classic Tapa clue. (0/1, 0/2, etc isn't a Classic Tapa clue, but a single 0 is.) Otherwise, how would you explain the existence of Classic Tapa puzzles that involve a 0 (indicating all squares around it are empty)? Edited by chaotic_iak 2016-01-04 12:57 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 170 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-01-04 1:24 AM
Thanks, really good to have a new TVC series. The dedication is great way to keep Florian remembered. I felt like I had a slow start, though the points per time don't really reflect that. One oversight on the harder skyscrapers meant I solved that one twice, but no trouble otherwise. I should revisit the star battle, the option I chose towards the end went through. The outside tapa also seemed a bit overvalued to me. For less experienced solvers, it would be helpful tobe a bit more explicit in the instructions about details like those 0s in the magic tapa, it's just very hard to tell if you haven't solved the example carefully. By the way, the base "tapa rule" at the start of the booklet makes no mention of a digit range 1-8. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 28 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | puzzlemad posted @ 2016-01-04 2:20 AM
I've now solved most of the puzzles - just the skyscrapers ones left. I was surprised how easy I found the Outside Tapa (for the points) - I should have tried that one in the test. Thanks again. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 225 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2016-01-04 2:26 AM I made the effort to practise for this using Bram's puzzles. His puzzles were frighteningly difficult, but if it weren't for those, I wouldn't have grasped so many Tapa concepts doing this test. In general, I feel Tapa is heavily intuitive and to score well in these sprint tests, you're better off "guessing" your path. All the puzzles are so neat. Make Room for Tapa was lovely because it had enough clear logical deductions to discourage guessing from early on. Tapa Magic was cool, but sadly this type might be quickly worn out after, say, 10 puzzles. I was on intense mode for the entire 80 minutes and I still have two big puzzles left. How on earth are you guys so good at this!? ; |