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Country : India | A lookback at past winners of SM contests with Converse and/or Twisted Classics theme:
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akash.doulani
Posts: 157
Country : India | All the best to all the participants. |
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Country : India | Puzzle Booklet
The PB is available now at http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/201801/
Notes for Offline solvers:
(1 ) Linked 6x6 and 9x9: The shading of the linked cells may be printed little lightly (feebly ) on some printers. In case you face this issue, please refer to the PB pdf for actual shaded cells.
Notes for Online solvers:
(1 ) Linked 9x9: For some users, there may be a slight gap in the alignment of the cell boundary and the pencilmarks (orange square ). You can ignore the alignment gaps and continue solving as normal.
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-01-12 12:08 AM | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Average Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | XV Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Well that's not a good start for me. Most probably this would be my discard. I kept breaking puzzles. I broke both overlapping again and again. I broke bigger linked. 30 min are gone by this time with all wrong. Started fresh again. And this time i got it right fortunately. Nonetheless very nice set of puzzles. Enjoyed a lot. Well done. |
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paramesis
Posts: 20
Country : United States | | 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? | Linked Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
2018 is going to be such an exciting year for puzzle competitions, and I couldn't have asked for a better set to start. My only real issue is that the 6x6 expanded sudoku isn't really a variation, but rather two completely independent grids presented in a somewhat confusing way. It took me 180 minutes to finish the whole set, so I've got a lot to work on when it comes to solve times. Everything fell apart when I tried to enter the answer key for the large XV with seconds to go, but I mixed up the answer strings. Thanks for a great set! Edited by paramesis 2018-01-12 6:55 AM
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | paramesis - 2018-01-12 6:52 AM
My only real issue is that the 6x6 expanded sudoku isn't really a variation, but rather two completely independent grids presented in a somewhat confusing way.
Since the grid was effectively 12x12, the intention was to keep the solve simple and "hide" two 6x6s, as you correctly noted. There were multiple ways of complicating the grid but we decided against it for the contest since the grid had become large. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | swaroop2011 - 2018-01-12 4:06 AM
30 min are gone by this time with all wrong. Started fresh again.
On hindsight, you should probably have started the test 30 minutes later. Timing matters. |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | rakesh_rai - 2018-01-12 9:42 AM
swaroop2011 - 2018-01-12 4:06 AM
30 min are gone by this time with all wrong. Started fresh again.
On hindsight, you should probably have started the test 30 minutes later. Timing matters.
Haha. Will come back strong in next test (which is 3rd round ; ) ) : ). Will see the timing to start ; ) |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-01-12 10:47 AM | 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? | XV Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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lucky2712
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Country : India | There are puzzles that comply with the consideration for it to be valid answer, but it doesn't accepts that solution. Why is that so? |
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lucky2712
Posts: 2
Country : India | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Expanded Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Despite the fact that I enjoyed a lot, there were some puzzles that had multiple correct answers, but apparently system was willing to accept only of the possible correct solution. Please look into the matter so points can be given fairly to each participants. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-01-12 4:26 PM | 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? | Linked Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | lucky2712 - 2018-01-12 2:06 PM
Despite the fact that I enjoyed a lot, there were some puzzles that had multiple correct answers, but apparently system was willing to accept only of the possible correct solution. Please look into the matter so points can be given fairly to each participants.
It seems you missed the converse rule. Converse is the theme of three sudokus - XV, Consecutive and Average. In these puzzles, ALL the possible symbols (bars for consecutive, X / V for XV, and lines for Average ) are marked on the grid.
Kindly check your multiple answers. I am sure there will be rule violations in these -
(a ) two neighbouring numbers adding to 10 without an X, or adding to 5 without a V
(b ) consecutive numbers without a symbol, and
(c ) central number being the average of two neighbours without a line. |
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akash.doulani
Posts: 157
Country : India | lucky2712 - 2018-01-12 2:06 PM
Despite the fact that I enjoyed a lot, there were some puzzles that had multiple correct answers, but apparently system was willing to accept only of the possible correct solution. Please look into the matter so points can be given fairly to each participants.
For your knowledge , all the puzzles that appear in any test on www.logicmastersindia.com are tested by the best of solvers to make sure that all the puzzles are unique. If you still have a doubt , you can take the photographs of your solved puzzles and mail me at akash.doulani@gmail.com |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-01-12 8:41 PM | 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? | Average Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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lenzo
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Country : ITALY | lenzo posted @ 2018-01-12 10:56 PM | 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? | Average Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Gyuszi13
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Country : Hungary | | 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? | Average Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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aditi2302
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Country : India | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Overlapping Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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SEREnSEALS
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Country : India | | 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? | XV Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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geronimo92
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Country : France | | 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? | Overlapping Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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pranavmanu
Posts: 55
Country : India | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | XV Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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davep
Posts: 43
Country : United States | davep posted @ 2018-01-13 7:21 PM | 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? | Overlapping Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Enjoyed the test, nice puzzle designs! |
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2018-01-13 7:37 PM | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
A great start to SM 2018 ! I hope the trend continues in all respects and aspects : ).I had a very smooth run during the test.Not breaking any sudokus helped a lot. I really enjoyed solving the Linked Classics (14 points ) ,overlapping (12 ) and Expanded (7 ) as well.Consecutive (11 ) was the hardest to crack for me following by XV (9 ).I felt that the set is on the harder side and should be difficult to complete but there was no doubt about the fun quotient.I enjoyed a lot .Well done Akash ! |
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Llewellyn
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Country : India | XV Sudoku 1 has an error i guess... Ive managed to solve the sudoku with the adjacent "x"'s and yet the solution says wrong -
136452
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@ 2018-01-11 11:25 AM (#23970 - in reply to #23957) (#23970) Top