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)



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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?

The points are an indicator of the level of difficulty of the sudoku. So, yes; the 6×6 carries more points because of difficulty.