@ 2020-02-20 10:02 PM (#27614 - in reply to #27596) (#27614) Top
Country : India
Administrator posted @ 2020-02-20 10:02 PM
Puzzle Booklet
The password protected Puzzle Booklet is now available here: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/202002/
@ 2020-02-21 8:21 AM (#27615 - in reply to #27596) (#27615) TopPosts: 65
Country : United States
WA1729 posted @ 2020-02-21 8:21 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 |
A little on the hard side but puzzles were very good. Thank you!
Favorites:
5 Kropki
9 Ripple Effect
14 Battleships
@ 2020-02-21 3:43 PM (#27616 - in reply to #27596) (#27616) TopPosts: 739
Country : India
vopani posted @ 2020-02-21 3:43 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
Too hard for PR.
Favourite puzzles: 14-Battleships, 22-LoadedBattleships, 11-Kropshiki
Thanks Harmeet and Pranav!
@ 2020-02-21 5:43 PM (#27617 - in reply to #27596) (#27617) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-21 5:43 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? | Battleships | |
| 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.
Battleships and Ripple Loop had very nice logic in all puzzles. Kropkis were a bit hard. Polyomino 9x9 was very nice. The exploratory puzzles had a nice twist from the original rules (no-converse and ship weight respectively).
@ 2020-02-21 11:16 PM (#27618 - in reply to #27596) (#27618) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-21 11:16 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? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-22 7:45 AM (#27621 - in reply to #27596) (#27621) TopPosts: 241
Country : Indonesia
chaotic_iak posted @ 2020-02-22 7:45 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? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
Puzzles were very nice, from what I attempted. Genre balance is still off: too many Latin square puzzles (Kropki and Futoshiki), and too many Battleships-like puzzles (Battleships and Polyominoes). I got through the 10-pointer without much trouble, but I had lots of trouble with 6- and 8-pointer Kropkis; it might be me being bad in Latin square-like puzzles in general, though.
@ 2020-02-22 10:40 PM (#27622 - in reply to #27596) (#27622) TopPosts: 1
Country : India
Lavanyakrishnan posted @ 2020-02-22 10:40 PM
answers once submitted..... cant it be redone
@ 2020-02-22 11:19 PM (#27623 - in reply to #27596) (#27623) TopPosts: 1
Country : India
anuj42 posted @ 2020-02-22 11:19 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? | Loaded Battleships | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-22 11:41 PM (#27624 - in reply to #27622) (#27624) TopCountry : India
Administrator posted @ 2020-02-22 11:41 PM
Lavanyakrishnan - 2020-02-22 10:40 PM
answers once submitted..... cant it be redone
answers once submitted..... cant it be redone
Yes. You can resubmit if there is an error. The instant grader will tell you if your answer is right or wrong. There is some penalty for these resubmissions as mentioned in IB.
@ 2020-02-23 3:02 AM (#27625 - in reply to #27596) (#27625) TopPosts: 9
Country : Finland
blivet posted @ 2020-02-23 3:02 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? | Polyominoes | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-23 3:25 AM (#27626 - in reply to #27596) (#27626) TopPosts: 23
Country : Japan
EctoPlasma posted @ 2020-02-23 3:25 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Polyominoes | |
| 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 |
Quite hard test for a PR it was! I like this difficulty level more, but it may be too hard for a national quali I guess?
@ 2020-02-23 10:01 AM (#27627 - in reply to #27596) (#27627) TopPosts: 145
Country : France
auroux posted @ 2020-02-23 10:01 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? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
This was much harder than PR rounds in past years (I still don't know what to think of last month's lopsided PR round), but it was also felt very fair and well-designed. The puzzles were nice and had a good mix of logical solve path / ability to use intuition when solve path is not apparent. I enjoyed it, even though I had expected to finish it and wasn't able to.
@ 2020-02-23 10:01 AM (#27628 - in reply to #27596) (#27628) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-23 10:01 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? | Average | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-23 2:13 PM (#27629 - in reply to #27596) (#27629) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-23 2:13 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? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-23 3:19 PM (#27630 - in reply to #27596) (#27630) TopPosts: 419
Country : India
kishy72 posted @ 2020-02-23 3:19 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 challenging and tough set but puzzles were very nice and fun to solve.
My favourites are Ripple Effect (8 points), Futoshiki (5 points) and Battlseships (7 points).The other puzzles also from these genres were intereting to solve.
Thanks Harmeet and Pranav for an enjoyable set !
@ 2020-02-23 9:44 PM (#27631 - in reply to #27596) (#27631) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-23 9:44 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? | Fairly Nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-24 3:46 AM (#27632 - in reply to #27596) (#27632) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-24 3:46 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 | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-24 7:09 AM (#27633 - in reply to #27596) (#27633) TopPosts: 59
Country : United States
bob posted @ 2020-02-24 7:09 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Kropkshiki | |
| 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 |
Fun puzzles. Just no where near enough time for me. Didn't eveln look at some of them.
@ 2020-02-24 10:25 AM (#27634 - in reply to #27596) (#27634) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-24 10:25 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 too much or too little | |
| What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right |
@ 2020-02-24 8:48 PM (#27646 - in reply to #27596) (#27646) TopPosts: 30
Country : France
Grizix posted @ 2020-02-24 8:48 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? | Fairly Nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Loaded Battleships | |
| What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys were horrible | |
| 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 really don't like entering columns as letters for the battleships answer keys. It could be digits, it's simpler to read, and faster to type on a numpad.
Same for polyominoes, it could be the size of the colored parts, it's faster to type than letters.
@ 2020-02-24 9:41 PM (#27647 - in reply to #27646) (#27647) TopPosts: 774
Country : India
rakesh_rai posted @ 2020-02-24 9:41 PM
Grizix - 2020-02-24 8:48 PM
I really don't like entering columns as letters for the battleships answer keys. It could be digits, it's simpler to read, and faster to type on a numpad.
Same for polyominoes, it could be the size of the colored parts, it's faster to type than letters.
I really don't like entering columns as letters for the battleships answer keys. It could be digits, it's simpler to read, and faster to type on a numpad.
Same for polyominoes, it could be the size of the colored parts, it's faster to type than letters.
Thanks for your viewpoint and we are concerned that you found the answer keys horrible while most other participants were ok.
For Polyominoes, your suggested answer key is an altogether different kind of answer key and does not clearly tell if the solver placed the correct polyomino. So the letters do serve a purpose here. Last year, we had asked names of the first three shapes from a direction, again letters only.
For Battleships, letters are already provided for easy reference above the grid. So it should not be that difficult. The numbers are avoided for a reason again. Numbers can possibly cause confusion with battleship outside clues which are also numbers.
Yes, we do consider things like "simpler to read" and "easier to type" but that is not the only consideration.
@ 2020-02-24 11:05 PM (#27651 - in reply to #27596) (#27651) TopPosts: 50
Country : India
ABcDexter posted @ 2020-02-24 11:05 PM
| What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many easy puzzles | |
| What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Battleships | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-25 4:10 AM (#27653 - in reply to #27596) (#27653) TopPosts: 22
Country : United Kingdom
Feadoor posted @ 2020-02-25 4:10 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? | Ripple Loop | |
| 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 |
@ 2020-02-25 7:12 AM (#27654 - in reply to #27596) (#27654) TopAn LMI player
An LMI player posted @ 2020-02-25 7:12 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? | Futoshiki | |
| What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Perfect answer keys | |
| What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right |
@ 2020-02-25 10:15 AM (#27656 - in reply to #27596) (#27656) TopPosts: 74
Country : United States
mstang posted @ 2020-02-25 10:15 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? | Very nice | |
| Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Polyominoes | |
| 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 |
Good test, although harder than I expected! I got everything but the last two Kropkis. The quality was very high, in my view. Thanks!!
Edited by mstang 2020-02-25 10:15 AM