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rakesh_rai
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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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Administrator
 
Country : India | Extension
The Contest is extended by 24 hours and can be taken till Wednesday (27th March) 2359 hrs IST.
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2019-03-26 11:29 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Letter Weights | | | 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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harmeet
Posts: 87
Country : India | harmeet posted @ 2019-03-26 11:40 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? | Meandering Words | | | 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 | |
Awesome set. I started badly by getting stuck in letter weights and had to let it go after spending lot of time. Somehow gathered momentum towards the end. Enjoyed word puzzles thoroughly. |
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MrWutki
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Country : ITALY | MrWutki posted @ 2019-03-26 11:58 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? | Meandering Words | | | 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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chaotic_iak
Posts: 241
Country : Indonesia | | 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? | 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 test. Sure, "casual is not guessing", but I intuited through several of these puzzles... only to realize that they do have nice logical solutions. (Most of them. I still have no idea about Almost Chess. ) |
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Elyot
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Country : Canada | Elyot posted @ 2019-03-27 5:46 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? | 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 | |
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tamz29
Posts: 225
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2019-03-28 12:46 AM It would be interesting to see how I'd place if the test only consisted of the Word half ;)
I love Scrabble, and after making lots of it, you definitely get a feel for them.
Curve Data is one of my kryptonites and after failing to tweak out a correct answer, I tried logically solving it and it worked!
Happy with a top-10 finish though.
Thanks Rakesh.
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sstackho
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Country : Canada | I wasn't able to solve #17 during the test time, but I tried it later. I get an answer key different than what is shown on the Summary page, but I can't find a flaw in my solution. Are there multiple solutions? FWIW, my key would be WUTHEA,OHISIN,RUPAHA. And I note that no-one else submitted this key, so I'm guessing I'm missing something somewhere.
EDIT: UGH! I found my problem. I missed this, which would have made it MUCH easier: "The first letter of each word is already given."
Edited by sstackho 2019-03-28 2:40 AM
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Mark
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Country : Italy | Mark posted @ 2019-03-28 4:24 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? | Curve Data | | | 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 | |
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Administrator
Country : India | Congratulations to Endo Ken, Bram de Laat and Nikola Zivanovic for taking the top three places.
Amongst Indian participants, Congratulations to Rohan Rao, Prasanna Seshadri and Amit Sowani for taking the top 3 places.
Of the 156 participants, 29 were from India and 21 from USA. Kazuya Yamamoto (Japan) was the first to start the test while Tawan Sunathvanichkul (Thailand) was the last person to start the test. 13 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 52.3.
Thanks Rakesh Rai for the puzzles!
Thanks to the participants who have shared feedback so far. Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page. |
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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? | 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 | |
Well it did not go as I expected. Another hard round for me, could have definitely done better. I was stuck on lower pointers than high. On bright side, I did better than last year in terms of score. Favourites were Scrabble and Curve Data. I still have to solve Almost Chess. Some reason I felt some lower pointers deserved more points, but could be just my personal experience. Puzzles were tricky rather than tough but I would say it as hard for a PR round. Nonetheless high quality puzzles. I enjoyed every bit. Thanks Rakesh. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | tamz29 - 2019-03-28 12:46 AM
It would be interesting to see how I'd place if the test only consisted of the Word half ;)
The answer is pretty clear. Based on the timestamps (and assuming time was continuously spent on a single puzzle ), we have the following winners of the "Word half". These are only estimates, though, and does not consider participants who submitted all answers in one go.
1. tamz29 27:22
2. sugitakukun 34:06
3. anderson 34:40
"Casual half"
1. EKBM 20:04
2. deu 26:41
3. panista 28:23
So, the test could have been done in 47:26, if we combine the best of both. |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | 3strikerz - 2019-03-26 8:44 AM
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. If you check out the PR (casual and word ) from 2018, there was a similar step in Scrabble puzzle. It was definitely put intentionally. |
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