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Country : India | Can you try from the contest page now? It should be available. |
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Country : India | Instruction Booklet
The updated Instruction Booklet is now available at the contest page.
Changes
1) Almost chess example fixed.
2) Points table added.
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Country : India | Puzzle Booklet
The password protected Puzzle Booklet is now available for download at the contest page.
It is advisable to go through the IB and the answer key notations before starting the test.
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Country : India | Start Time
The test starts at 5:30 PM IST.
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sstackho
Posts: 18
Country : Canada | rakesh_rai - 2019-03-22 12:31 AM
sstackho - 2019-03-22 5:18 AM
In addition to the Chess example, is there an error in the sample answer key for Curve Data? I believe the given example answer key should be 22,13
The answer key (11,2 ) is fine. We need to consider lengths of horizontal segments in this case. Since the segment goes from center to center, the length of the segments in row 2 (for example ) is 1, and not 2.
There is always this confusion in puzzles with loops/segments (length of segment v/s number of cells ). So your answer will also be considered valid (22,13 ) but an answer like (22,3 ) or (11, 13 ) will not be considered correct. As long as there is consistency in the submitted answer, it will be considered correct.
Oops! Of course, you're right. Sorry, my brain must not have been working properly when I posted this yesterday! Nice to know you accept either answer key. |
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anurag
Posts: 136
Country : India | anurag posted @ 2019-03-22 10:15 PM Stairs can go top to bottom? |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | anurag - 2019-03-22 10:15 PM
Stairs can go top to bottom?
Yes.
These are the possibilities:
Up/right/up....
Up/left/up....
Left/up/left...
Left/down/left...
Down/left/down...
Down/right/down...
Right/up/right...
Right/down/right... |
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puzzler05
Posts: 7
Country : South Korea | | 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? | Letter Scrabble | | | 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 @ 2019-03-23 5:26 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? | Average | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Almost Chess | | | 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 | |
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bob
Posts: 59
Country : United States | bob posted @ 2019-03-23 10:24 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? | Curve Data | | | 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 enjoyed this contest much more than I thought I would, since "casual" puzzles for me seem to involve more intuition than I care for (or maybe my intuition was good today ). Anyway I especially liked the word puzzles and the curve data puzzles. I think there is a typographical error in the word list for puzzle 20. The word PI sohould be PS. The S in PS worked in my answer key. Thanks for fun diversion. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | bob - I think there is a typographical error in the word list for puzzle 20. The word PI sohould be PS. The S in PS worked in my answer key.
I think there is no typographical error. You probably got lucky there. The letter in R7C4 is indeed S. But it is part of the word SIPS and not PI. PI is in R6C2 and R7C2. |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2019-03-24 12:52 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? | Curve Data | | | 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 | |
Oh that was a challenge. The Instructions looked scary and some puzzles needed lot of struggling. It was like competing with myself all the way. Too bad I couldn't get the last one correctly done. Everything but one word was placed, but the last one didn't fit : ) ) ) |
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mstang
Posts: 74
Country : United States | mstang posted @ 2019-03-24 2:20 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? | Average | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Letter Scrabble | | | 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 | |
The word puzzles were good, but some of the casual puzzles just seemed like too much guessing/manual labor. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | mstang - some of the casual puzzles just seemed like too much guessing/manual labor.
- Almost Chess - needed lot of pencilmarking and elimination. And it is better done at the start. It is difficult to do under time pressure. Maybe 2 and 3 needed more diligent effort and people could tend to guess. But all three can be done by logical elimination if you work with the right piece (s )
- Curve data - can be done logically
- Shortest distances - can be done logically
- Arithmetic square - can be done logically
- Letter weights - can be done logically
- Compass - can be done logically
- Pyramid Climbers - can be done logically |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | Tiit - The Instructions looked scary
Which one (s )? |
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pranavmanu
Posts: 55
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? | Letter Scrabble | | | 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 | |
Very Nice Puzzles. My favourites were the Almost chess 5 pointer,Meandering words and the Letter scrabble 11 pointer,for which i somehow couldnt place only 1 word,which was frustrating and ate up my time in trying to fix it. Enjoyed the test.Thanks Rakesh for the puzzles |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2019-03-24 10:33 PM Generally instructions looked scary. Quite many puzzles, first. Also for me many unconvenient puzzle types. |
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anurag
Posts: 136
Country : India | anurag posted @ 2019-03-24 11:45 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? | Curve Data | | | 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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kiwijam
Posts: 187
Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2019-03-25 2:50 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? | Letter Scrabble | | | 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 | |
Great contest, thank you. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | pranavamanu - My favourites were the Almost chess 5 pointer ... There was no 5 pointer in Almost Chess : ) |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2019-03-25 3:31 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? | Double Letter Scrabble | | | 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 | |
Very nice set of puzzles, but on the harder side for PR. Favourites puzzles: Scrabble, Almost Chess 2, Meandering Words 2
I spent nearly 15+ minutes on Letter Weights, and ultimately still couldn't solve it in time :- (
Thanks Rakesh!
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | vopani - I spent nearly 15+ minutes on Letter Weights, and ultimately still couldn't solve it in time :( The trick was NIKOLA = 25. That means PRWZ =20. And with help of PARA and WA you can get this real quick, in about 3-4 minutes. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2019-03-26 8:16 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Double Letter Scrabble | | | 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? | 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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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2019-03-26 8:39 AM Is it possible to extend the test deadline by a day ? |
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3strikerz
Posts: 8
Country : South Korea | | 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? | Letter Scrabble | | | 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 | |
Loved how the placement of the 3-letter-word was a trick in the last puzzle in Letter scrabble. At first I placed it in the wrong slot (which was perfectly fine by scrabble rules ) which blocked a final word from being placed in the grid. Curve datas apparently are my weak point, but very interesting puzzles overall. |
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