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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Almost Simple Loop
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Fun test, as are all of the Puzzle Ramayan series. It is satisfying to finish more puzzles within the time limit. I also enjoy the intructionless puzzles (none on this set). Looking forward to the next one.

What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Bosnian Road
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

In Heyawacky, does "the white area cannot span across 2 consecutive borders (thick lines)" mean a horizontal or vertical segment of white cells cannot be in more than 2 regions?

That is correct.

Thank you!

That was fun, thanks Walker! There was no time to appreciate the solving paths unfortunately, I'll have to go through the set again. But the puzzles certainly all looked pretty.

Apart from the first one, Almost Simple Loop felt more like Outside Yajilin. I thought Bosnian Snake was a bit of an odd choice as a shading puzzle, particularly with Bosnian Road in the second part. Speaking of Bosnian Road, it would have been nice to avoid the differing notions of loop length for the answer code.

Assuming Lake Loop is original (I don't remember seeing it), that one might have been a fun instructionless puzzle, too, though I guess it not being a variant of another of the loop puzzles is an argument against.

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Many puzzles were worth too much or too little
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Yin Yang
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Excellent set of puzzles.
Exactly suitable for PR environment. Thanks to author and LMI for conducting this test.

Apart from 10min waste of time at start due to printer issue, everthing else went smooth. I really enjoyed the test. I am happy I completed the set, after missing the completion of 1st PR round closely.

YinYang 3 was the one which took most of my time. Rest all were smooth solve.
Heyawake was nice logic. Fortunately i created some Heyawake with similar logic so found it quickly.

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Lakes Loop
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Thanks for the sprint test :)
I think Lakes Loop is the same as Nurikabe Loop (Akil Oyunlari Magazine Competition), no?
Most of these were intuitive types - so I think guessing is probably more efficient than finding logical paths.

What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many easy puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Lakes
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Thanks for the fun puzzles Walker! I spent way too long on Heyawake 3, but once I found the break-in I was very impressed, and it ended up being the most memorable one from the test.

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Almost Simple Loop
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Bosnian Road
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Lakes Loop
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Lakes
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Lakes Loop
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Great test, thank you Walker!
The biggest Heyawacky is the best one I've ever seen :)

Anyway, I should have done better, but my printer has decided to print only 4 out of 8 pages :(

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Bosnian Snake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Answer keys could have been better
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Thanks to Walker for authoring this test. Also thanks to Bram for test solving.

Congratulations to Endo, Rob and Hideaki for finishing the test with a combined time of less than 90 minutes. Endo's score is the best ever in any SM or PR episode so far.

Congratulations to Rohan, Swaroop, Rajesh, Ashish and Kishore for taking the top India positions.

Heyawake 3 was attempted by the least number of participants, but it was the most accurate submission too (82/83 correct answers). It had a nice solving path/trick. Those who have not attempted it yet should try it at leisure.

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Heyawake
What was your opinion about the answer key extraction?	Mostly perfect answer keys
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

There was a slight issue with the differing entry style for the solutions of the Bosnian road compared to the other loop puzzles. I spotted it beforehand but it could have been easier if they all had length of line or number of squares, rather than a mixture.

Bosnian Road accepted length of lines, because I did it that way.

The Almost Simple Loop feeling like Outside Yajilin was intended - we wanted to transition from the Simple Loop in last year's PR to something that is like another loop type, but still keeps the link to last year clear.

Last year, when we had a Snake round, some people noted that Snake is also a sub-genre of shading with a mixing in of path constraints. This year we have Pentomino instead of Snake as the specialized round, so it was good to have one snake somewhere and this seemed like a good spot :) Both variants are meant to take something from the other part, Lakes Loop was a step up from Lakes in the Shading side and Bosnian Road was a step up from Bosnian Snake in the Loop side.

Lakes Loop is indeed Nurikabe loop as Tawan pointed out. Since it doesn't have the 2x2 constraint we thought it was ok to name it Lakes loop here, especially to maintain the link to the Lakes type instead of making it feel like bringing in an entirely new type.

These weren't planned beforehand, but after some of Walker's initial submissions it just developed into these ideas.