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?	Arrow Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Many puzzles were worth too much or too little

I am way too slow to ever be a competitive solver. That being said, I enjoyed the few puzzles I had time to solve and will try the rest later.

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?	Palindrome Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Can i take part in this competition now only?and how?plz help

Yes. You can take part now.

Details here: http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?start=1&t...

- You need to go to the contest page.
- Download the Instructions Booklet and Sudoku Booklet.
- Go through the Instructions Booklet and get familiar with sudoku types.
- Once you are ready, click on "Start" button on the test page.
- You will get the password on the screen.
- Copy the password and use it to open the Sudoku booklet pdf.
- Print the booklet, solve and enter the answer key(s).
- Solve and submit as many as possible till the timer on the screen is running (It will run for 90 minutes).
- Check the score on the Results link.
- You can also solve online (There is a link on the top of the contest page).

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?	Diagonal Sudoku
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 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?	Palindrome Sudoku
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 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?	Classic Sudoku
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 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?	Diagonal Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

I thought this was a nice set of puzzles, and well graded relative to each other. I always like a set I can finish within the time limit! Would LMI be interested in our mentioning the Mahabharat and perhaps showing a video about one of the puzzles on the Cracking the Cryptic Youtube channel? Mark Goodliffe

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?	Palindrome Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Congratulations to Jakub Ondrousek, Jan Mrozowski and Seung Jae Kwak for taking the top three places.

Thanks to the 467 participants from 39 countries. Anukul (India) was the first to start the test while Daniel Victor (India) was the last person to start the test. 99 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 55.

Top 3 for countries with 10+ participants:

India(203): Rohan Rao, Kishore Kumar and Ashish Kumar
Japan(27): Endo Ken, Kota Morinishi and Hideaki Jo
USA(23): William Blatt, Jason Zuffranieri and Jenna Rivet
Italy(21): Vittorio Schiavone, Matteo Testa and Laura Tarchetti
Germany(19): Michael Ley, Robert Vollmert and Martin Merker
France(19): Timothy Doyle, Yannick Meyapin and Philippe Meyer
Poland(15): Jan Mrozowski, Jakub Majewski and Kristian Swiderski
Czech Republic(11): Jakub Ondrousek, Jakub Hrazdira and Pavel Kadlecik
Korea(11): Seungjae Kwak, Hwangrae Lee and Choi Yong Seok
Slovakia(11): Natália Chanová, Marek Kasar and Veronika Kolvekova
UK(11): Tom Collyer, Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Mark Goodlife

Thanks Prasanna Seshadri for the sudokus!

Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.

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?	Palindrome Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

can someone help me with the password for standard (SM 18)? i want to practice

thestandardbattle

Thank you to everyone who participated. I am especially encouraged by 203 Indian participants, 8 of whom were from the offline SM round which we hope will grow in popularity as the year progresses. My only request to all the participants now is to continue through the six rounds to get the full SM experience. To some of the beginners and newcomers, don't get discouraged by a low score, we all started from somewhere similar :)

Congratulations to Jakub, Jan and Seungjae, and Rohan, Kishore and Ashish for securing the top 3 International and Indian spots respectively. Also congratulations to the participants who finished all 18 Sudokus of an SM round within 90 minutes for the first time!

I hope everyone enjoyed the set! Now we can look forward to the Substitution and Neighbours variants the youthful duo of Hemant and Pranav come up with for Round 2.

Thanks Mark!
We have sent a reply to your email.

In the scoreboard, rank "D" means the participant has been disqualified for using unfair means in the contest.

Can I get some samples for Substitution & Neighbours to pratice? Or if they are available on the website, where can I access it from?

https://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=SM201901

https://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=SM201902

https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/201803/

https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018032/

Link to the solution booklet please !

please make it user friendly. I am a registered new comer. unable to participate. Not getting password for pdf. can you help?

you are helping new comers to participate despite several requests.

This round of Sudoku Mahabharat finished in 15.01. You cannot participate now in competition as is closed. But you can wait for next round of sudoku competition in 2 weeks (7.02-10.02, if I am correct).