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Country : India | Twins Co-Ordinates - Any 5 pairsWe have decided to announce the number of pairs in Twins Co-Ordinates. While there will be exactly 6 identical pairs, only 5 pairs need to be found. The submission page will accept any 5 pairs. Players should submit as soon as they find 5 pairs.
Instructions Booklet is updated accordingly.
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SilBer
Posts: 8
Country : Germany | SilBer posted @ 2016-03-30 11:23 AM I still see no chance to get into one of the word search sudoku examples. Could anyone give me a hint how to start, maybe which word can be placed first? In the big one, I only got the "trivial" mini-sudoku-conclusions. In the 9x9 one, I only saw that "mocktest" has 3 possible positions and "sudokus" about 10 (I counted both directions seperate), both of course diagonal. Thank you... Silke
Edited by SilBer 2016-03-30 11:24 AM
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-03-30 8:46 PM For the big puzzle, are you remembering that the whole grid is also a Latin Square? You should be able to assign all letters to the grids at which point the word search starts. |
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SilBer
Posts: 8
Country : Germany | SilBer posted @ 2016-03-31 12:39 AM Yes, I know for every 4x4 sudoku, which four letters it contains. But after this, now I have to find a word which has only one possible place, or something like that, I think? And this is the point were I can't find something to go on. |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-03-31 2:06 AM SilBer - 2016-03-31 12:39 AM
Yes, I know for every 4x4 sudoku, which four letters it contains. But after this, now I have to find a word which has only one possible place, or something like that, I think? And this is the point were I can't find something to go on.
For example, there's just one way to place NORTH (and to get there, only one pair of 4x4 boxes with N and H where you can find ORT between them ). It helps to write down a 3x3 grid with the letters per box. Edited by rob 2016-03-31 2:07 AM
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SilBer
Posts: 8
Country : Germany | SilBer posted @ 2016-03-31 12:42 PM Okay, thank you, I try that. |
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SilBer
Posts: 8
Country : Germany | SilBer posted @ 2016-03-31 12:50 PM It works. :-) |
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debmohanty
Country : India | rob - 2016-03-31 2:06 AM
It helps to write down a 3x3 grid with the letters per box. Very useful tip! |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Puzzle grid sizes are displayed
Puzzle grid sizes are now displayed in submission page.
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debmohanty
Country : India | All password protected puzzle pdfs are zipped into a single file. The same can be downloaded from the submission page. Hope it is more convenient than downloading 12 different files. |
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Nikola
Posts: 103
Country : Serbia | Nikola posted @ 2016-04-01 2:02 AM One more short question. In Word Search Sudoku can a given word appear in the grid twice or multiple times?
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debmohanty
Country : India | Nikola - 2016-04-01 2:02 AM
One more short question. In Word Search Sudoku can a given word appear in the grid twice or multiple times?
Each given word has to appear at least once. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Like every year, he finished all the 12 puzzles in a stretch. Congratulations to Gotroch. |
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2016-04-01 8:04 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hex Slitherlink | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hidoku | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
I successfuly finished Marathon! (And I did it in quite Marathon way - solving all puzzles in one 8 hour session ) Thanks for very nice puzzles! |
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WA1729
Posts: 65
Country : United States | WA1729 posted @ 2016-04-02 6:53 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Spiral Galaxy | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Akari | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hidoku | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
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EoHeongMat
Posts: 7
Country : South Korea | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Linked Poset Futoshiki | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Word Search Sudoku | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Twin Co-Ordinates | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
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David McNeill
Posts: 63
Country : United Kingdom | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | LITS+ | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Domino Loop | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
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Eykir
Posts: 11
Country : United States | Eykir posted @ 2016-04-03 9:59 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Spiral Galaxy | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | LITS+ | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2016-04-03 12:41 PM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | LITS+ | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Neighbours | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hidoku | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
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Puzlifouk
Posts: 67
Country : France | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Domino Loop | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hex Slitherlink | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2016-04-03 9:56 PM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Spiral Galaxy | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Linked Poset Futoshiki | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
The puzzles actually were all reasonable in terms of difficulty. They were comparable with each other. Last year you never knew how long it takes and it was hard to plan solving them. This year it was nicely done. I was also afraid a bit of the Twin Coordinates puzzle but it actually took about the same time as others - so perfect. Some got a jackpot with this but if you consider that you can throw 2 away, it's not a big problem if you fail this. Anyway, cheers to the organizers for such a great competition. It'll be interesting to watch where I end up. TiiT |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-04-03 11:57 PM TiiT - 2016-04-03 9:56 PM
I was also afraid a bit of the Twin Coordinates puzzle but it actually took about the same time as others - so perfect. Some got a jackpot with this but if you consider that you can throw 2 away, it's not a big problem if you fail this.
Anyway, cheers to the organizers for such a great competition. It'll be interesting to watch where I end up.
TiiT
I think my copy of that puzzle was broken, it had just three twins. : )
Before the contest, I thought the scoring change which allowed authors to also skip two was unnecessary, but now I'm quite thankful for it! |
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Semax
Posts: 10
Country : Germany | Semax posted @ 2016-04-04 3:02 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
Great puzzles! Thank you. Now that I know the real rules of Poset Futoshiki, I am not very happy with the example. I thought that "X < Y" means I can only place numbers X and Y which are connected by an arrow. The fact that I can jump over numbers was not very clear. But that's just a minor remark. All in all it was a nice contest, I can't even choose my favorites, because each one of the puzzles was really cool. Edited by Semax 2016-04-04 3:04 AM
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ghirsch
Posts: 102
Country : United States | ghirsch posted @ 2016-04-04 10:22 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Linked Poset Futoshiki | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Pentopia | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Domino Loop | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2016-04-04 11:39 AM | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Linked Poset Futoshiki | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Word Search Sudoku | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Hex Slitherlink | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | |
Thanks to all authors for knitting together a beautiful contest . I greatly enjoyed the aesthetics and the solve path in all the puzzles with the exception of 1 or 2 puzzles which I hated. I also like this concept of slightly lesser difficult marathon puzzles enabling bonus. I hope this formula continues from next year .Thanks to Prasanna for helping me out with the example puzzles of Hex slitherlink and domino loop snake. These were new types to me and without solving the examples,I couldn't have solved the contest ones. The marathon is becoming better and sweeter each year and this year was no exception !! |
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