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rob
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Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2016-05-01 4:43 AM chaotic_iak - 2016-05-01 1:25 AM
Re Crossmind: That's why I'm interested to know the intended logical path to solve Crossmind, because it just looks completely beyond any approach I can think of.
I would guess that you missed some of the Mastermind deductions. If my notes are correct, there are just 7 ambiguous words, of which only two have more than two options.
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | No, I'm very confident my "solves" for Mastermind were right (because I just used programming to brute force each combination). But even with all of that, I still can't figure out where to start placing any of them. |
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dm_litv
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Country : Russia | dm_litv posted @ 2016-05-01 3:43 PM About the "Crossmind" discussion:
The crossword part of this puzzle is completely logically solvable without using of uniqueness.
You should start with second "left-to-right" word (middle top of the grid).
The first and the last letters of this word must be 4th letters in some pair of words.
There are only 3 possible words, 2 of them very quickly lead to the contradiction.
Next - everything goes without problems.
On the competition as a whole - it is exactly as it should be.
Edited by dm_litv 2016-05-01 3:46 PM
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forcolin
Posts: 172
Country : ITALY | dm_litv - 2016-05-01 3:43 PM
On the competition as a whole - it is exactly as it should be.
I fully agree.
[a bit OT, a question for admin] Is there scope for competitions dedicated to optimization puzzles only?
Stefano Edited by forcolin 2016-05-01 8:19 PM
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hsaa509
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Country : India | hsaa509 posted @ 2016-05-02 4:38 PM I am unable to understand about it, could you reply me with proper or actual question? |
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kiwijam
Posts: 187
Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2016-05-04 4:58 AM forcolin - 2016-05-02 3:19 AM
Is there scope for competitions dedicated to optimization puzzles only?
Stefano
I think the optimization puzzles are the highlight of Riad's tests.
This time there were only 2, and they were 'solvable', but I'd like to see more too! |
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Riad Khanmagomedov
Posts: 234
Country : Russia | Thanks to all the participants! Next year it will be necessary to return to the format with three optimization puzzles. |
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forcolin
Posts: 172
Country : ITALY | I agree with both the last posts. However I miss a bit the good old DOM.
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Eugene Porter
Posts: 11
Country : United States | Does anyone have a solution for the Trid-Fir? I keep getting stuck. |
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Eugene Porter
Posts: 11
Country : United States | This is a very tough contest. I am also struggling with the Voyage puzzle. Even after looking at the answer string I am not sure how to do this puzzle. Is there a solutions page somewhere. After spending several days on these and getting nowhere it would be nice to know what it is I am not getting. Any help would be great. |
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kiwijam
Posts: 187
Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2017-08-28 10:24 AM It was a tough contest, much harder than other contests because you have a week instead of an hour to solve them.
Perhaps show us an image of where you are up to and we can suggest some next steps? |
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