Congratulations to Kota Morinishi , Jan Zverina and Seung Jae Kwak for taking the top 3 spots and also to Kishore Kumar, Rohan Rao and Shaheer Rahman for taking the top 3 spots among the Indians. I really enjoyed authoring this round. My personal favourites were Linked Classics (9x9) , XV (9x9) and Consecutive (9x9). Thanks to logicmastersindia for giving me this opportunity. I hope you all liked the sudokus . Its actually been a long time since I have solved sudokus. With all my authoring assignments over , I can get back to solving :)

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?	Linked Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

How to approach the XV(6x6) puzzle?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xk6iAnoFPsuaItTqnS1WTuLBT-Vgngqi/vi...

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks a lot!!

Ok - I have no idea what you have done to the PDFs, but this is printing completely blank - no misprints, just blank pieces of paper feeding out of my printer. I'm using a mac and preview to print the PDF files on to a Brother HL-L2340DW printer.

I've also just tried to print 2017 SM files. They print perfectly.

A little more info. The 2017 files seem to have been produced using "FREE PDFill PDF and".

This 2018 file has been produced using "PoDoFo - http://podofo.sf.net". Rather unhelpfully their bug tracker doesn't seem to exist.