Thread - Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January

@ 2016-02-26 12:16 AM (#21112 - in reply to #20393) (#21112)Quote Reply Top

CTC Comments

CTC Comments posted @ 2016-02-26 12:16 AM

Comments on 2016-02-23's Tapa

Hotel commented at 2016-02-23 16:53:56
This is the last day, and it's a nice puzzle too. Thanks for great Tapa puzzles!

Nola commented at 2016-02-23 16:56:08
Oh no, finally my first error on the last day. But 50 wonderful puzzles! Thanks for the nice series!

rajeshk commented at 2016-02-23 23:25:26
Thanks a lot for this Tapa Contest. Looking forward to some more similar contests :)

hinowbye commented at 2016-02-24 01:15:06
Nice puzzle for the end :) my mouse kinda died during this so I kinda lost like 45 seconds but its ok :)

@ 2016-02-26 8:09 AM (#21116 - in reply to #20393) (#21116)Quote Reply Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2016-02-26 8:09 AM

Classic Tapa Contest for 2016 is officially over. sai won the contest, by a huge margin, as most of us were expecting. EKBM and Prasanna had a very close contest, with EKBM jumping ahead in last few days. Congratulations.

Despite the minor hiccups on few days, I hope everyone enjoyed the contest. Like every year, we will be posting some stats soon.

@ 2016-02-26 8:13 AM (#21117 - in reply to #20393) (#21117)Quote Reply Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2016-02-26 8:13 AM

Personally, it would have been very exciting to have Prasanna at the second place, but he can take consolation in the fact that he has lost to none other than the World Puzzle Champion.

@ 2016-03-04 4:48 AM (#21192 - in reply to #20393) (#21192)Quote Reply Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2016-03-04 4:48 AM

Some statistics about CTC 2016

@ 2016-03-04 5:42 AM (#21193 - in reply to #20393) (#21193)Quote Reply Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2016-03-04 5:42 AM

Some statistics (about different days)

@ 2016-03-04 5:43 AM (#21194 - in reply to #20393) (#21194)Quote Reply Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2016-03-04 5:43 AM

Some statistics (By Sizes)

@ 2016-03-04 7:10 AM (#21195 - in reply to #20393) (#21195)Quote Reply Top

swaroop2011

Posts: 668

Country : India

swaroop2011 posted @ 2016-03-04 7:10 AM

I could solve this puzzle logically upto this point. I would like to know apart from intuition of using uniqueness at center, is there any other steps if others can figure out ?

@ 2016-03-04 7:32 AM (#21196 - in reply to #20393) (#21196)Quote Reply Top

Para

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Country : The Netherlands

Para posted @ 2016-03-04 7:32 AM

There is a hard deduction on the left side. You can't get past the 113 in R8C2. If you were to go past the left of it R7C3 would be an isolated cell because of the 14 and 24. The 22 blocks passing down the bottom. This means that section of the Tapa wall must connect down the bottom of the grid.

Edited by Para 2016-03-04 7:34 AM

@ 2016-03-04 11:27 AM (#21197 - in reply to #21196) (#21197)Quote Reply Top

swaroop2011

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Country : India

swaroop2011 posted @ 2016-03-04 11:27 AM

Para - 2016-03-04 7:32 AM

There is a hard deduction on the left side. You can't get past the 113 in R8C2. If you were to go past the left of it R7C3 would be an isolated cell because of the 14 and 24. The 22 blocks passing down the bottom. This means that section of the Tapa wall must connect down the bottom of the grid.

ah i see now. Nice. Thanks.

@ 2016-03-08 2:56 PM (#21218 - in reply to #21192) (#21218)Quote Reply Top

prasanna16391

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Country : India

prasanna16391 posted @ 2016-03-08 2:56 PM

debmohanty - 2016-03-04 4:48 AM

Some statistics about CTC 2016

Who would have predicted in 2012 that I would be one of the most consistent ones in a future edition? :P I still remember the drastic ups and downs from that year. Its sad that that one mistake came because of a double click around a 1-1 corner clue, would have been nice to have perfect accuracy like deu :)