Thanks for the feedback. Noted.

Thanks for the feedback. Noted.

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

A really good round. Even though untouch had 50 % higher weightage, i solved it at a better pace compared to quadruple 6x6.

Overall my favourite is the palindrome 9x9 and diagonal 9x9.

For a change I started with high pointer variants (9x9 grids) this time. Successfully completed 9x9 Diagonal and then took 9x9 Untouch, which probably was a wrong choice, I guess, as I wasted lot of time looking for a break. Got the 9x9 Extra Region easily and was on the way to finish the 9x9 Palindrome, but unfortunately made an error and lost it completely. With last few minutes remaining then I decided to pickup some points with 9x9 Classics. Barring my poor performance, I found the set really good. After the contest, I solved 6x6 Quadruple which to my surprise was created with superb logic and was substantiated by high point attributed to it... Thumbs Up to the Authors .. Hemant and Swaroop.

This was good set liked the logic. Kudos to Hemant and Swaroop

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?	Extra Region Sudoku
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 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?	Untouch Sudoku
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 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?	Untouch Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth too much or too little

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

The one thing I disliked was that there were two antisymmetric puzzles in this set: Untouch 2 and Extra Region 2. They are never enjoyable to me, because any deduction for one digit is also automatically true for another digit on the other side of the grid.

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

The quality of puzzles were really nice . Really enjoyed solving the set .

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

If the time of the present 1st place is true, I will not able to try hard to do my best...

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

Really nice set of sudokus. My favourites are:

Extra Region 9x9
Diagonal 9x9
Quadruple 6x6

Thanks Hemant and Swaroop. Excellent stuff!

One small feedback on formatting: The extra region shaded cells are too dark in my printouts.

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

Congratulations to Jan Zverina, Seungjae Kwak and Tiit Vunk for taking the top three places. Jan was miles ahead of the rest of the competition in this round, five minutes ahead of the 2nd placed competitor.

Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Rohan Rao (overall 5th), Rishi Puri and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places. The 'R' factor on display again.

Of the 308 participants, 131 were from India, 23 from Japan and 19 from USA. Jakub Majewski (Poland) was the first to start the test while Bhupendra Singh (India) was the last person to start the test. 67 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 51.9.

Thanks Hemant and Swaroop for the puzzles!

Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.

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?	Fairly Nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Untouch Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Solution Booklet is available now.

I would like to share a walkthrough on solving the Quadruple Sudoku 6*6 (attached)



Attachments
----------------
quad6x6 walkthough (2).zip (87KB - 32 downloads)

Thanks Kumaresan.

Congratulations to Jan Zverina, Seungjae Kwak and Tiit Vunk for taking the top three places. Also congratulations to Rohan Rao, Rishi Puri and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places amongst the Indians.
Thanks to LMI for giving me this opportunity. It was a lot of fun creating the Sudokus. From the set my personal favourites were 6x6 Quadruple and 9x9 Untouch. And the Quadruple actually got most attention out of the entire set :P
Also thanks to Swaroop. It was a very nice experience of authoring with you. Apart from the sudokus you created, you also helped me a lot in making my creations better by your suggestions :)

Thank you for the feedback. This being my first time as an author, I have a lot to learn. And this feedback will surely help me.

Congrats to top 3 overall as well as Indians. It was great experience supporting Hemant. Its so good to see youngsters rising in solving and creating.
Sorry to Hemant if I was too strict mentoring(rejected lots of his creations) just wanted him to learn as much possible and create a good round.
I was very much aware of the half solve of Untouch 9x9 due to symmetry, but I let it through because I like his design and idea. Thanks to LMI for the opportunity and all testers.
Thanks to all participants and their feedback, will surely keep that in mind during next contest. I hope you all enjoyed.
Any participant if they feel they could not solve any particular sudoku, please feel free to post here we will be happy to help you.
Good luck with upcoming contests. :)

Generally, the 9*9 version carries more points than the 6*6 version of each variant. Is it because of the difficulty level of 6*6 is greater than 9*9?