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ABcDexter
Posts: 50
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? | Non-Integer Kakuro | | | 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 | |
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Country : India | Contest extended by 24 hours
Based on requests, the test end time is now extended by 24 hours, and will be open full day on 20th February. Check submission page for exact timing.
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2018-02-20 1:52 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? | Incorrect Products | | | 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 | |
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kiwijam
Posts: 187
Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2018-02-20 4:22 AM "Contest extended by 24 hours" post is not visible when I'm not logged in.
Edited by kiwijam 2018-02-20 4:22 AM
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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? | Unknown Calendar | | | 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 | |
Well interesting set of puzzles. Wasted lot of time in switching between puzzles and couldn't complete lots of them. Have to solve remaining. Thanks for the test. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-20 10:32 AM | 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? | Triangular Minesweeper | | | 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-20 12:16 PM | 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? | Unknown Diginet | | | 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 | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-21 3:37 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? | Unknown Calendar | | | 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 | |
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | My first ever podium finish that I can remember, and this is done when I'm half-asleep. Clearly I should do contests while half-asleep. :P |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | chaotic_iak - 2018-02-21 6:41 AM
My first ever podium finish that I can remember, and this is done when I'm half-asleep. Clearly I should do contests while half-asleep. :P
I've come to a similar conclusion recently. I make more mistakes when I'm solving fresh -_- There's probably a weird theory explaining it somewhere even if I can't think of one now.  |
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forsmarts
Posts: 33
Country : Belarus | Big thanks to all the competitors and congratulations to Endo, Ivan and Kota, who made it to a top-3.
I would also like to thank my co-authors:
Olga Shut, who created all Unknown puzzles and Instructionless Gamma
and Andrey Bogdanov, author of all Triangular puzzles.
Edited by forsmarts 2018-02-21 3:37 PM
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skrzypl1
Posts: 1
Country : Poland | I think that Unknown digits have second possible solution: 1234. Connecting: 1-6, 2-7, 3-5, 3-9, 4-5. Am I wrong?
Also, can we know rules for instructionless puzzles? For example when I solve alpha I get multiple solutions (but proper answer keys nevertheless).
EDIT: I just figured out proper alpha rules that don't give multiple solutions.
Edited by skrzypl1 2018-02-21 4:04 PM
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forsmarts
Posts: 33
Country : Belarus | skrzypl1 - 2018-02-21 3:43 PM
I think that Unknown digits have second possible solution: 1234. Connecting: 1-6, 2-7, 3-5, 3-9, 4-5. Am I wrong?
Seems like you're right : ( Confirmed with Olga.
I'll ask an administrator to give full points for this one as well. |
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Ziti
Posts: 42
Country : United States | Ziti posted @ 2018-02-22 10:22 AM Thank you Vladimir and all your helpers for an entertaining and challenging set of puzzles. I never know how such creative people come up with new puzzle types but I am grateful that you do!
Will there be a solution pdf published? Man oh man I do not see what I did wrong on Gamma -- at least the first one seems like it follows a perfectly unique set of rules. |
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forsmarts
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tamz29
Posts: 225
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2018-02-22 11:49 PM Great puzzles and a lot of new ideas!
Is there a way to see the puzzles from the aforementioned Moscow Cup ? |
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forsmarts
Posts: 33
Country : Belarus | tamz29 - 2018-02-22 11:49 PM
Is there a way to see the puzzles from the aforementioned Moscow Cup ?
They'll be posted shortly on http://diogenclub.com/, but it will be in Russian. |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2018-02-23 5:58 AM Isn’t this a valid solution for Incorrect Products too?
42513
31452
23145
54231
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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | Para: The 6 is replaced by a 18; that's not a change of one digit.
And to the puzzle: It's a shame to know that Unknown Diginet has multiple solutions. That must be why I was wondering how you can possibly approach this logically.
Edited by chaotic_iak 2018-02-23 6:56 AM
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2018-02-23 10:29 AM chaotic_iak - 2018-02-23 6:55 AM
Para: The 6 is replaced by a 18; that's not a change of one digit.
And to the puzzle: It's a shame to know that Unknown Diginet has multiple solutions. That must be why I was wondering how you can possibly approach this logically.
Ah, okay. I didn’t really read the rules carefully enough. I just went with, they all work the same as the first, which was one incorrect clue. |
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rob
Posts: 170
Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2018-02-24 8:36 PM For beta, also the line has to turn at each dot? Otherwise the example seems not unique.
The alpha rules are nice, unfortunately some Slalom-like rules were too promising for me (no loops, then no crosses: seemed to work fine for the example and the first puzzle, but the second one is contradictory quite late). |
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forsmarts
Posts: 33
Country : Belarus | rob - 2018-02-24 8:36 PM
For beta, also the line has to turn at each dot? Otherwise the example seems not unique.
You're right, it should also make a turn at each dot!
rob - 2018-02-24 8:36 PM
The alpha rules are nice, unfortunately some Slalom-like rules were too promising for me (no loops, then no crosses: seemed to work fine for the example and the first puzzle, but the second one is contradictory quite late).
Example is not unique for slalom-like solution, there's one cell that may contain either slash. |
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Ziti
Posts: 42
Country : United States | Ziti posted @ 2018-02-25 3:46 AM Thank you for the solutions, Vladimir. I solved Gamma as "Path must alternate going through circle-wall-circle-wall..." but did not realize the additional constraint. It solved the example uniquely but obviously not uniquely for the puzzles themselves. Which might explain why I had to guess and was happy (at the time!) to reach a conclusion! :) |
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Eugene Porter
Posts: 11
Country : United States | I thought it was a great contest. I did have one question about the incorrect products puzzle. I got an answer of 45213 and 23541 doing this the 36 was the incorrect product. Maybe I am missing something but after checking many times this seems to be a possible alternative solution. |
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