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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-02-02 5:57 PM TVC XIX is postponed by a week. It will start on 13th Feb. | ||||||||||||||||||
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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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![]() Posts: 172 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : ITALY | forcolin posted @ 2016-02-07 2:38 AM Is TVC XIX overlapping with Converse? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 1800 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2016-02-07 1:41 PM 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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Posts: 315 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-02-11 12:21 PM Is the Instruction Booklet coming out soon? | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-11-21 12:16 PM Logic Masters Indian announces Tapa Variations Contest XIX (Revised) Dates: 9th - 12th December 2016 Length: 75+5 minutes IB and Submission Link : http://logicmastersindia.com/TVC/XIX/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 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.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2016-11-24 8:57 PM 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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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2016-11-25 6:58 AM 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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Posts: 72 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2016-12-02 9:46 AM New practice puzzle for Black Hole Tapa from Anderson Wang : https://qzqxq.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/puzzle-23-black-hole-tapa/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2016-12-06 1:41 AM 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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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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Posts: 9 Country : India | deepti.garg posted @ 2016-12-09 1:48 PM 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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Posts: 170 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-12-09 3:01 PM deepti.garg - 2016-12-09 1:48 PM Hi, I want to practice TAPA classic and variants, can you recommend some puzzle book which I can order online to practice. Sounds like Serkan's Tapa and Variations book is just what you're looking for: http://www.gmpuzzles.com/store/classic-and-variations-series Otherwise the TVC archives provide plenty of practice material: http://logicmastersindia.com/TVC/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-12-09 9:58 PM
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Posts: 183 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2016-12-10 12:00 AM Some practice puzzles collected by James: http://forum.ukpuzzles.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1619 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 9 Country : United States | Jacoblance posted @ 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!) | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2016-12-10 4:05 AM Jacoblance - 2016-12-10 3:15 AM We had not (yet) entered the solution keys in the score page. Have done that now. Please check score page again.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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Posts: 241 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2016-12-10 8:33 AM
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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Posts: 74 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | mstang posted @ 2016-12-10 9:11 AM
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Posts: 65 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | WA1729 posted @ 2016-12-11 6:52 AM
My favorites were 1-n, Arrows and Anglers. Thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2016-12-11 1:02 PM
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Posts: 26 ![]() Country : Finland | peluri posted @ 2016-12-11 8:39 PM
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Posts: 164 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Slovakia | greenhorn posted @ 2016-12-11 10:30 PM
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Posts: 170 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-12-11 11:47 PM Thanks Fatih and Serkan, that was a lovely set of puzzles. I struggled quite a bit with the Chain Tapa, and breezed through the Power of Tapa, but other than that things felt pretty even. Now I look forward to the next one! |