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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-03 11:53 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? | Thermo Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Tough but enjoyed thoroughly. kudos to the authors. |
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misko
Posts: 11
Country : Germany | misko posted @ 2018-03-04 12:17 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? | 2-5-8 Outside Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Gyuszi13
Posts: 17
Country : Hungary | | 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? | 2-5-8 Outside Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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pranavmanu
Posts: 55
Country : India | | 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? | Thermo Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Great test...Favourites were the thermo 9*9 and the outside sequence 6*6..really hard challenging test.Answer keys seem to have improved,so thats a plus. Thank you : ) |
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aashay
Posts: 46
Country : India | aashay posted @ 2018-03-04 11:15 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? | 2-5-8 Outside Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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pranavmanu
Posts: 55
Country : India | It is mentioned in the Test page that the booklet is of size 8 pages,but the actual booklet is 9 pages.I had kept only few pages in the printer and as a result,the last page was missed out :/.
Please rectify this error as soon as possible.
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MrLiang
Posts: 44
Country : Thailand | MrLiang posted @ 2018-03-04 11:26 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? | Outside Sequences Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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aditi2302
Posts: 18
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? | Renban Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I enjoyed the test a lot. I almost missed out on submitting the 9x9 Renban: ), I will definitely try harder in the April round. |
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vijaya_rajan
Posts: 22
Country : India | | 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? | Consecutive Pairs Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I look forward to these contests and generally feel satisfied if I manage to complete most of the classics and 2-3 of the variants. This time in SM this has not been the case and so feel quite discouraged. Evidently the level of practice required is very high. This is serious business, no longer a hobby : ) ! |
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Country : India | PB - Number of pages
Please note that the PB has 9 pages (not 8). If you are planning to solve on paper, we advise you to have a printer accessible with enough paper.
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2018-03-04 8:49 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | 2-5-8 Outside Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Too hard for an SM round, which made it a bit less enjoyable.
Sudokus were good, some of the 9x9 ones had narrow break-ins.
Thanks R and R!
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Ziti
Posts: 42
Country : United States | Ziti posted @ 2018-03-05 12:11 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? | Thermo Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-05 12:45 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? | 2-5-8 Outside 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 | |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2018-03-05 3:16 PM Very good logical Sudoku puzzles. It was bit harder than previous SMs but all the puzzles were having nice solving path. Totally enjoyed this test. Thanks to the LMI and authors Ramesh and Rakesh for this wonderful test.
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Country : India | Contest Extension
Based on requests from some players, and due to the Holi festival weekend, the SM3 contest is extended till Tuesday 2359 hrs IST. For exact time as per your timezone, please refer to the contest page.
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2018-03-05 10:22 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? | 2-5-8 Outside Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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bskbri
Posts: 34
Country : Turkey | bskbri posted @ 2018-03-06 4:02 AM Administrator - 2018-03-05 2:48 PM
Contest Extension
Based on requests from some players, and due to the Holi festival weekend, the SM3 contest is extended till Tuesday 2359 hrs IST. For exact time as per your timezone, please refer to the contest page.
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2018-03-06 11:00 AM I thought the contest was extended, but it doesn't seem to allow me to start. |
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Country : India | Contest Over
In spite of extending the contest, the team encountered an unforeseen technical glitch late in the night and the test did finish at the originally scheduled time.
Sincere apologies to bskbri, Para and other participants who may have planned to take the test today. We could have extended the contest today morning but since the password and PB were already public, we decided against it.
We are looking forward to hosting the March monthly sudoku contest during March 9th- 12th.
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rvarun
Posts: 268
Country : India | rvarun posted @ 2018-03-06 11:40 AM Oops. I had planned to take the test today. :( |
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Country : India | Congratulations to Kota Morinishi, Jakub Ondrousek and Michael Ley for taking the top three places.
Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Rohan Rao, Aashay Patil and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places.
20 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 40.6.
Thanks Ramesh and Rakesh for the puzzles! |
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Country : India | We did a post-test analysis of Top finishers' timings and found that skyscrapers were undervalued and classics overvalued by about 3-4 points. This is primarily due to our testers being relatively stronger at skyscrapers and relatively weaker at classics. This was a known fact and was adjusted for, but still the variation proved to be high enough in the end. Timings for all other variants roughly followed the points distribution pattern outlined in the IB. |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2018-03-06 1:48 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? | Renban Sudoku | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Very nice test. Enjoyed this test a lot. Some of the Sudoku variations required good logical flow which was really nice. |
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Country : India | Solution Booklet is available now.
Also Puzzle Booklet (without password ) can now be downloaded from the contest page. |
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RameshLMI
Posts: 51
Country : India | I would like to thank LMI for giving me the opportunity to co-author this round of SM contest alongside Rakesh. It was a great learning experience for me while creating Sudokus (both classics and variants) for the contest and I thoroughly enjoyed doing so.
Thanks to all the solvers for participating and providing their honest feedback on the grids. Although we got lot of mixed feedback, we will definitely work upon to improve the contents in future.
I know every solver has his/her personal liking which was obvious from the feedback but my personal favorites were Outside Sequence (9x9), Skyscraper (9x9) and 2-5-8 Outside (9x9) Sudokus.
Last but not the least, I would like to thank Rakesh for all the support and guidance provided by him to accomplish the task. |
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