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Posts: 152 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United Kingdom | detuned posted @ 2019-02-08 1:49 PM Am I correct in thinking that “True or lie” is simply a less well presented (in my opinion) version of pencilmark sudoku? | ||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2019-02-08 2:02 PM The test has started. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 419 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2019-02-08 2:23 PM Well.You are entitled to think whatever you want to.But yes.True or lie is not very different from a pencilmark sudoku. | ||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2019-02-08 3:28 PM
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Posts: 74 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | mstang posted @ 2019-02-09 1:23 AM
The test was overall fine. I thought the True or Lie formatting was bad, though, because the given clues overlapped the place where a 1 pencil mark would go when solving online. I skipped the 9x9 puzzle mainly for this reason. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 18 Country : Philippines | Sedho posted @ 2019-02-09 8:30 AM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2019-02-09 9:54 AM mstang - I thought the True or Lie formatting was bad, though, because the given clues overlapped the place where a 1 pencil mark would go when solving online. I skipped the 9x9 puzzle mainly for this reason. Thanks for the feedback. Yes. There is partial overlap but we think it does not impact solving. Perhaps we could have used a lighter font for the True or Lie clues. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 739 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | vopani posted @ 2019-02-09 10:14 AM
Very nice set. Top quality sudokus. Felt the difficulty is too hard for SM. Favourite puzzles: Quadro 9x9, 2Odd2Even 9x9, True Or Lie 6x6 Thanks Ashish and Kishore! | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 668 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2019-02-09 10:48 AM
Excellent Set of Sudokus. Loved the 2Odd 2Even Sudoku, Although I solved it after the test. It was a wonderful test. Thanks LMI. Thanks Kishore and Ashish. Agree to Rohan, difficulty is on higher side for SM, so beginners might have some tough time. | ||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2019-02-09 2:22 PM
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Posts: 139 ![]() ![]() Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2019-02-09 3:27 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2019-02-09 6:08 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2019-02-09 10:58 PM
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Posts: 17 Country : Poland | udoroh posted @ 2019-02-09 11:55 PM
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Posts: 8 Country : France | geronimo92 posted @ 2019-02-10 12:37 AM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2019-02-10 1:45 AM
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Posts: 59 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | bob posted @ 2019-02-10 1:51 AM
Too hard for timed test but nice fun puzzles. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 46 ![]() ![]() Country : India | aashay posted @ 2019-02-10 11:37 AM
Great quality of Sudokus, really enjoyed the variants. But had a bad day and broke a lot of them, even some 6*6 ones. Thanks for the great Sudokus Ashish and Kishore! | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 17 Country : India | Anu G posted @ 2019-02-10 1:44 PM Extremely tough for a beginner. Added to it, my network conn was really bad. So personally pathetic performance again. Infact its getting worse with each round. But I guess this is required at this level of competition. So Great job done Ashish and Kishore. Edited by Anu G 2019-02-10 1:55 PM | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 63 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Hemant Kr Malani posted @ 2019-02-10 2:45 PM
After a bad performance in the 1st round I had targeted to perform well in this round. But couldn't perform as well. I lost a lot of time in the classics and the 9*9 2 Odd 2 Even. At the end I couldn't solve the 2 Odd 2 Even. Overall a good set of sudokus. I specially liked the Coded Sudokus. Thanks Kumars for the sudokus :p | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 71 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | shera90 posted @ 2019-02-10 3:25 PM
great set of sudokus. thankfuly i had no mistakes in this round. in my opinion i found true or lie and coded sudoku easy, finshed 9x9 for both of them in 10 mins combined. had already decided to go for the hghest pointer 2 odd 2 even first and thankfully it worked for me. i felt that quadro should've been given more points compared to true or lie and coded sudoku. overall i am glad that i finished the whole set within time | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 225 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2019-02-10 4:38 PM Nice test but rather difficult. Even the Classics were hard. I basically give up an hour fumbling hopelessly so it was a surprise to see other people found it just as hard. I thought Coded 2 was too guess-y and the 2O2E was beautifully made. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 87 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | harmeet posted @ 2019-02-10 5:09 PM
Thanks for this amazing set. I really enjoyed quadro and coded during the contest, and 2 odd 2 even offline. Edited by harmeet 2019-02-10 5:20 PM | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 152 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United Kingdom | detuned posted @ 2019-02-10 5:13 PM kishy72 - 2019-02-08 9:23 AM Well.You are entitled to think whatever you want to.But yes.True or lie is not very different from a pencilmark sudoku. Does this mean the only differences are to do with the presentation, rather than how you might solve the puzzle? That's certainly how it seems to me, so I'd be grateful if you could confirm this or else point out differences I might be missing. My interest in general is that sometimes Sudoku contests do themselves no favours with being overly complex and not friendly to beginners. So I see an old and relatively well-understood variation masquerading under new rules and new presentation, and I wonder if that is really being helpful. My personal opinion is that a beginner would look at a 12 in a pencilmark grid and be able to grasp what is going on far better than a 1 in a true or lie grid. If that's really the case, I ask myself what, if any, benefit this new presentation is bringing to the table. The whole "Liar" theme is also something that probably needs some further point - at some point in the WPC and WSC community someone decided that "Liar" should mean differing by exactly one and the precedent has stuck for whatever reason. However, to an outsider this might seem quite arbitrary, and whilst this might be lying in a technical sense, this +/- 1 concept is actually far more restrictive. That, to me, is something more like "fuzzy" clues. The final point I'd like to make is if this is really just a pencilmark sudoku, it kind of stretches the theme of "substitution" a little far. Granted, I personally don't care that much for themes as I know it's perfectly possible to group together variations that superficially look similar but fundamentally solve using different heuristics, however there may be solvers who end up confused by the theming. I tend to think it should be the puzzles that make the theme, rather than the theme that makes the puzzles. | ||||||||||||
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![]() Posts: 337 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2019-02-10 6:12 PM True or Lie sudoku is not a new idea. I think it was first created by Nikola in sept. 2014 for the tournament sudoku day: http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=M201409S, and appeared in a few occasions, like indian sudoku championship 2015. I've created some similar variants, liar sudoku: http://sudokuvariante.blogspot.com/search/label/Menteur, with only the "liar" idea. Concerning the points you raised: Presentation: In my opinion it's not less well presented than pencil marks. Here we have only one clue in each cell, which is in my opinion more readable than pencil marks sudoku. Of course it could have been presented as a pencil marks sudoku, it's only a small twist. I think this variants belongs to a category we could call "coded information" variants, exactly as roman numeral sudoku. Roman numeral sudoku could be presented as pencil marks sudoku, too: "V" means pencil marks 45678, "III" means pencil marks 38, etc... I don't see a problem in having a small twist from pencil marks variant which leads to true or lie sudoku. Beginner-friendly: I don't think the rule and presentation of true or lie sudoku is too complex for a beginner. I think the idea is quite simple and the presentation very clear. If a player prefer pencil marks, it takes few seconds to write them in all clued cells, I don't think it's a problem for players. "Liar", perhaps liar is not the right word to use, but who really cares about name of variants? The only complaint I would make is that playing online was not very easy with this formatting, as mstang noticed. Fred |