I read that as that the gray cells are not part of the grid. They are effectively sea squares. Why gray cells instead of usual wavy lines indicating sea, I don't know.

On further consideration, I agree with your reading, and I'm going forward with the understanding that ships cannot occupy those cells.

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On the circular maze, (#18), the arrow "A" starts in the middle of an edge. Is the edge containing the arrow the last one or the first one around the circle? (if it contains a wall, do we count that wall as part of the first group or the last group). For example, if there were a single wall of length 3 on that circle, lying in the sector above the A, the sector containing the A, and the sector just below, would the answer key be 12 or 21?

The edge containing the arrow is the first one. The answer would be 21 in your example.

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly 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
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	Just right
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent?	All puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Lots of interesting puzzle types in this test. I really enjoyed the ones I managed to get to.

Great contest!

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
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	Just right
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent?	All puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Great puzzles, I enjoyed all of the ones that I had time for. It did seem like the XO type was over-represented though, with 1/3 of the puzzles being variations of this type. That said, some of the variations were really interesting, I especially enjoyed the XII puzzle.

Edited by ghirsch 2016-11-29 2:00 PM

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly 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
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	A bit too many puzzles
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Hello, I have written the answers for question 6 but have forgotten to click the 'submit' button !It is clear from the timing that it is not a last second submission. So is it possible to correct my total points accordingly ?

Cenan Denizer

I checked the score page and you have got the points for puzzle 6.

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
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	Just right
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	A bit skewed
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
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test?	Just right
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent?	All puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Whoops, doing this right after I wake up might not be a very good idea, with a slow start...

The obvious complaint is that there are too many XO puzzles and variations (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12). There could have been a better spread of puzzles. The puzzles themselves were nice; nothing particularly memorable though.

"Mostly perfect" answer keys instead of perfect because Interstellar Route has an awful answer key. Would be better with "lengths of loop segments in row", "column number of black cells", or "letters visited in order", something like that. While I didn't solve it, Build a Circular Maze also looked to have a pretty awkward answer key.

Otherwise, pretty enjoyable; at least it's a puzzle test. Not the best, but still good enough.

Thanks, that was a lot of fun! It's true that there were a lot of no-four-in-a-row puzzles, but while I don't particularly care for the base type, I really enjoyed them here.

Thanks for the puzzles Riad.
It was interesting to figure out new rules for the OX, COOLLL types as you go along.

One of the rounds of the Moscow Cup I called LOXIC. I have included in this round a new variations of XO. Puzzle XII was specifically invented to the 12 Cup.

Thanks to all the participants.
I congratulate with the victory Hideaki, Nikola and Michael!

I really enjoyed this. The XO with regions was a very satisfying solve, as was the build a maze. Thanks!