@ 2018-02-22 11:25 PM (#24317 - in reply to #24217) (#24317) Top
Country : India
Administrator posted @ 2018-02-22 11:25 PM
A lookback at similar PR contests earlier:
@ 2018-02-23 12:12 AM (#24320 - in reply to #24217) (#24320) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-23 12:12 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? | Partiti | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-23 8:36 AM (#24325 - in reply to #24217) (#24325) TopPosts: 668
Country : India
swaroop2011 posted @ 2018-02-23 8:36 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? | Partiti | |
| 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 |
Interesting Set of Puzzles.
Each Puzzle had nice logic behind it , probably new techniques or I didn't know. I was too slow to discover.
Not a good round for me but nonetheless puzzle quality was great. Probably my discard round. Felt difficuitly was hard though , may be very hard in comparison to 1st round.
Yet to solve remaining.
Thanks Amit for wonderful set of puzzles. Thanks LMI.
@ 2018-02-24 3:00 AM (#24329 - in reply to #24217) (#24329) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-24 3:00 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? | Half Dominoes | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-24 4:17 PM (#24331 - in reply to #24217) (#24331) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-24 4:17 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? | Partiti | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-24 10:08 PM (#24333 - in reply to #24217) (#24333) TopPosts: 225
Country : Thailand
tamz29 posted @ 2018-02-24 10:08 PM
Next time the wording for the Battleships answer keys should be changed.
"Left to right and top to bottom" would mean entering the submarines' co-ordinates column by column.
Rather than the going from "top to bottom and left to right" - which is the case with the example.
"Left to right and top to bottom" would mean entering the submarines' co-ordinates column by column.
Rather than the going from "top to bottom and left to right" - which is the case with the example.
@ 2018-02-25 6:39 AM (#24336 - in reply to #24217) (#24336) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-25 6:39 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? | Fairly Nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Effect | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-25 11:34 PM (#24338 - in reply to #24217) (#24338) TopPosts: 164
Country : Slovakia
greenhorn posted @ 2018-02-25 11:34 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? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
I like the LMI theme, but the puzzle type selection was really weird and I didn't enjoyed solving Partiti (they were worth 29 points - almost one third of the whole contest).
@ 2018-02-26 4:46 AM (#24339 - in reply to #24217) (#24339) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-26 4:46 AM
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Statue Park | |
| 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 too much or too little | |
| What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | I have a different complaint |
Prefer all pages have header even if it's the second page of a set of puzzles. If papers get out of order it's soemtimes hard to see which puzzles you're on.
(both puzzle #s and page #s were too small to be helpful)
Edited by An LMI player 2018-02-26 4:48 AM
@ 2018-02-26 8:12 AM (#24340 - in reply to #24217) (#24340) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-26 8:12 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? | Partiti | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-26 1:10 PM (#24351 - in reply to #24217) (#24351) TopPosts: 241
Country : Indonesia
chaotic_iak posted @ 2018-02-26 1:10 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? | Partiti | |
| What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | |
| 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 |
These are some incredible puzzles. Some difficult ones, too. Partiti is a really tough genre, but that's probably just because it's very new; the logic was really nice. But not only that; all of them in general are very good puzzles. The only complaint is answer keys; for Battleships, I believe the usual answer key is "leftmost ship segment in each row", and I much prefer that than locating submarines. (Or if we need to locate submarines, at least give us the row numbers.) And for Partiti, I feel like putting the largest number only feels off (would probably be better "put all numbers in each cell from lowest to highest"). But minor complaints; the puzzles themselves are top-notch.
@ 2018-02-26 2:45 PM (#24352 - in reply to #24217) (#24352) TopPosts: 187
Country : New Zealand
kiwijam posted @ 2018-02-26 2:45 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? | Half Dominoes | |
| 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 |
I was confused by the lack of row numbers for the Battleships answer key, had to redownload the instruction book to see what my error was.
But the puzzles were generally very well written, thank you Amit for a great contest.
@ 2018-02-26 3:41 PM (#24353 - in reply to #24217) (#24353) TopPosts: 33
Country : Belarus
forsmarts posted @ 2018-02-26 3:41 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? | Half Dominoes | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-26 4:07 PM (#24354 - in reply to #24217) (#24354) TopPosts: 17
Country : Hungary
Gyuszi13 posted @ 2018-02-26 4:07 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? | Partiti Regions | |
| 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? | Too many pages / too large grids |
@ 2018-02-26 6:53 PM (#24355 - in reply to #24217) (#24355) TopPosts: 50
Country : India
ABcDexter posted @ 2018-02-26 6:53 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Effect | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-26 7:36 PM (#24356 - in reply to #24217) (#24356) TopPosts: 315
Country : The Netherlands
Para posted @ 2018-02-26 7:36 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? | Statue Park | |
| 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 |
I did enjoy the puzzles, but I think that maybe too many puzzles needed the right insight and I used uniqueness maybe a bit too much to get through this whole set.
Also, is there like a non-japanese ranking in these things? ;)
@ 2018-02-26 7:51 PM (#24357 - in reply to #24217) (#24357) TopPosts: 739
Country : India
vopani posted @ 2018-02-26 7:51 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
Too hard for a PR round.
Puzzles were excellent... felt like a typical Amit Sowani set. Loved the Partiti Regions and Battleships, was hard to pick one as favourite.
@ 2018-02-26 8:56 PM (#24358 - in reply to #24217) (#24358) TopPosts: 89
Country : India
utkaarsh posted @ 2018-02-26 8:56 PM
The difficulty of puzzles would either motivate non-regular solvers to practice much more or drive them away
@ 2018-02-27 12:04 AM (#24359 - in reply to #24217) (#24359) TopPosts: 51
Country : India
RameshLMI posted @ 2018-02-27 12:04 AM
Quite tough a set. Though enjoyed solving Ripple Effect puzzles.
@ 2018-02-27 9:29 AM (#24360 - in reply to #24217) (#24360) TopPosts: 65
Country : United States
WA1729 posted @ 2018-02-27 9:29 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? | Statue Park | |
| 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 |
Thank you!
Favorite Puzzles:
Ripple Effect 2
Partiti 3
Partiti Regions 2
@ 2018-02-27 4:54 PM (#24363 - in reply to #24217) (#24363) TopPosts: 419
Country : India
kishy72 posted @ 2018-02-27 4:54 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? | Ripple Effect | |
| What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | |
| 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 booklet formatting and printing? | Just right |
A very hard set.My score is more or less half of what I scored in the previous PR round.I couldn't enjoy the round becuase of the difficulty level and it was a total struggle getting to the point tally that I eventually did.It would have been better if the supposedly lower pointer puzzles(1,2 etc pointers ) were valued better and the number of puzzles to solve had been lesser to account for the increase in difficulty level.
Favourite is Ripple Effect(9 points).Thanks for the set Amit.
@ 2018-02-28 12:48 AM (#24366 - in reply to #24217) (#24366) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2018-02-28 12:48 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? | Fairly Nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Hidden Statue | |
| What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | |
| 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 |
@ 2018-02-28 12:10 PM (#24367 - in reply to #24217) (#24367) TopCountry : India
Administrator posted @ 2018-02-28 12:10 PM
Congratulations to Endo Ken, Yuki Kawabe, and Hideaki Jo for making it an all-Japan Top 3.
Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Prasanna Seshadri, Rohan Rao and Ashish Kumar for taking the top 3 places.
Of the 206 participants, 35 were from India, 28 from Japan and 23 from USA. Morey Garelick (USA) was the first to start the test while Esther Naef (Switzerland) was the last person to start the test. 9 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 41.
Thanks Amit Sowani for the puzzles!
Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.
Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Prasanna Seshadri, Rohan Rao and Ashish Kumar for taking the top 3 places.
Of the 206 participants, 35 were from India, 28 from Japan and 23 from USA. Morey Garelick (USA) was the first to start the test while Esther Naef (Switzerland) was the last person to start the test. 9 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 41.
Thanks Amit Sowani for the puzzles!
Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.
@ 2018-02-28 3:07 PM (#24368 - in reply to #24338) (#24368) TopPosts: 349
Country : India
amitsowani posted @ 2018-02-28 3:07 PM
greenhorn - 2018-02-25 11:34 PM
I like the LMI theme, but the puzzle type selection was really weird and I didn't enjoyed solving Partiti (they were worth 29 points - almost one third of the whole contest).
I like the LMI theme, but the puzzle type selection was really weird and I didn't enjoyed solving Partiti (they were worth 29 points - almost one third of the whole contest).
Thanks for your feedback Matus. We are contemplating a polling mechanism for selection of puzzle types for each contest.
For this particular contest with Number and Object Placement as the theme I went with three each. In wanted number placement to be different from symbol placement so each puzzle used a different properties of numbers. Futoshiki has number comparisons, Ripple Effect uses numbers to indicate distance and Partiti has number arithmetic.
For object placement I went with puzzles which have a given set of objects which need to be placed. Most of these are classic types.
Partiti is a slow moving puzzle with local logic. I attempted to make the grids smaller and introduce symmetry to aid with solving.
@ 2018-02-28 3:12 PM (#24369 - in reply to #24351) (#24369) TopPosts: 349
Country : India
amitsowani posted @ 2018-02-28 3:12 PM
chaotic_iak - 2018-02-26 1:10 PM
These are some incredible puzzles. Some difficult ones, too. Partiti is a really tough genre, but that's probably just because it's very new; the logic was really nice. But not only that; all of them in general are very good puzzles. The only complaint is answer keys; for Battleships, I believe the usual answer key is "leftmost ship segment in each row", and I much prefer that than locating submarines. (Or if we need to locate submarines, at least give us the row numbers.) And for Partiti, I feel like putting the largest number only feels off (would probably be better "put all numbers in each cell from lowest to highest"). But minor complaints; the puzzles themselves are top-notch.
These are some incredible puzzles. Some difficult ones, too. Partiti is a really tough genre, but that's probably just because it's very new; the logic was really nice. But not only that; all of them in general are very good puzzles. The only complaint is answer keys; for Battleships, I believe the usual answer key is "leftmost ship segment in each row", and I much prefer that than locating submarines. (Or if we need to locate submarines, at least give us the row numbers.) And for Partiti, I feel like putting the largest number only feels off (would probably be better "put all numbers in each cell from lowest to highest"). But minor complaints; the puzzles themselves are top-notch.
Thanks for your feedback Ivan. We realized the error in Battleship formatting after the booklet had been published and the test had started. We will note this for future contests.
The answer key for Partiti was based on the need for fixed length answer keys for real time validation of answer keys.
Partiti usually solves bottom up, the smaller numbers get filled in earlier than the larger ones, hence we went with the answer key for the test.