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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-01-17 6:05 PM Is the example for Latin Tapa wrong or am I not understanding the rules correctly? The clue in R3C4 does not seem to read WORD clockwise. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Lonely Tapa is on page 54, not 53. |
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rob
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Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-01-17 11:48 PM Para - 2016-01-17 6:05 PM
Is the example for Latin Tapa wrong or am I not understanding the rules correctly? The clue in R3C4 does not seem to read WORD clockwise.
Yes, that clue should be "WDRO", compare https://maybepuzzles.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/latintapa-example.p... .
I have a question about Radar Tapa: Could there be a clue in the corner, which would imply that the diagonally adjacent cell is used by that clue? |
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kiwijam
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Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2016-01-18 2:17 AM rob - 2016-01-18 6:48 AM
I have a question about Radar Tapa: Could there be a clue in the corner, which would imply that the diagonally adjacent cell is used by that clue?
No, clues will be only be in the centre and/or the edges for this variant (but corner clues are an obvious way to extend the idea ). |
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Para
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Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-01-18 4:40 AM prasanna16391 - 2016-01-17 10:13 PM
Lonely Tapa is on page 54, not 53.
And appropriately all by itself. : ) |
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Country : India | Voting for TVC XIX is closed now. As announced, we will include the top 6 voted variations [ Lonely Tapa (page 54), Tapa Pentopool (page 4), Thermometer Tapa (page 15), Tapa Chain (page 44), Tapa Row (page 23) & Anglers Tapa (page 29) ] in the contest.
Many thanks to the 45 players who participated in this voting.
Voting for TVC XX will be open in about a week.
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Country : India | TVC XIX is postponed by a week. It will start on 13th Feb. |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2016-02-05 3:03 PM What about TVC XX? Also postponed by a week? (Feb 27-29) |
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forcolin
Posts: 172
Country : ITALY | Is TVC XIX overlapping with Converse? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Yes that is the plan as of now. The LMI schedule is pretty full right now so any potential delay to a particular contest may cause an overlap. We did consider that, to the general audience, having TVC this weekend would have caused an overlap with the Sudoku GP anyway, so we thought it will just be two contests on another weekend. We will also be making some extensions during overlap weekends, as announced for the SM Converse Round in its discussion thread. |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-02-11 12:21 PM Is the Instruction Booklet coming out soon? |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | Well, that was an interestingly long delay, but hey, puzzles.
Black Hole Tapa: Just as confirmation, black holes may touch/share a side, right? (Only applies if N >= 2, of course.)
Power of Tapa: I suppose a clue of 0 means it's just ignored? (Like the 2-0 clue at R2C1 having only a single segment of 2.)
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yureklis
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Country : Turkey | chaotic_iak - 2016-11-21 5:08 PM
Well, that was an interestingly long delay, but hey, puzzles.
Black Hole Tapa: Just as confirmation, black holes may touch/share a side, right? (Only applies if N >= 2, of course.)
Power of Tapa: I suppose a clue of 0 means it's just ignored? (Like the 2-0 clue at R2C1 having only a single segment of 2.)
Sure, there is not any restriction of touching, so you are right if N is bigger than 2, blackholes can touch each other from the side.
If the zero in clue R2C1 was the exponential power of 2, the clue would be 1, but in this case the clue as it seems, so it means 2-0, and it should be blackened just 2 adjacent cells. |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | Yeah, I meant the question is whether a 0 that is not in an exponential clue is just ignored ("0 adjacent cells"). Looks like yes. |
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Joo M.Y
Posts: 72
Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2016-12-02 9:46 AM |
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | A clarification of Lonely Tapa. The instruction says "each orthogonally connected are of empty cells can contain at most one clue cell." So if it says "at most" it means there might be some empty cell blocks that don't connect any clue cells, however in the example all empty cell blocks connect to exactly one clue. So, please check the new example, because there might appear some empty cell or blocks that doesn't have any connection with clue cells.
Lonely Tapa Example
 Edited by yureklis 2016-12-06 1:51 AM
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ghirsch
Posts: 102
Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2016-12-06 7:53 AM For Tapa 1-n, is it required that the numbers of cells in each row/column must be in the range 1-n (as the name seems to suggest)? Or can there be rows/columns with 0 shaded cells? |
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deepti.garg
Posts: 9
Country : India | Hi,
I want to practice TAPA classic and variants, can you recommend some puzzle book which I can order online to practice.
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-12-09 3:01 PM |
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yureklis
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Jacoblance
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Country : United States | Why are all answers marked as wrong? (Or just all 7 people who have submitted so far did not get any correct answers, but I doubt that!) |
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Country : India | Jacoblance - 2016-12-10 3:15 AM
Why are all answers marked as wrong? (Or just all 7 people who have submitted so far did not get any correct answers, but I doubt that!) We had not (yet ) entered the solution keys in the score page. Have done that now. Please check score page again. |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
All nice puzzles, no complaints. Okay, maybe Chain Tapa should be named Cyclic Tapa (#105, p40 ), but otherwise no problem. All good puzzles; memorable ones are Arrow Tapa, the second Anglers Tapa, and Tapa Pentopool (which I typoed because I thought the last grid was 10x10, not 11x11 ). |
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