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?	234 Outside 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?	Toroidal 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, Takuya Sugimoto and Seung Jae Kwak for taking the top three places. The first and third place winners are the same as in SM1 and SM2. Amazing consistency!

Thanks to the 334 participants from 39 countries. Jakub Hrazdira (Czech Republic) was the first to start the test and Daniel Victor (India) was the last person to start the test. 66 participants completed the set within the allotted time, and 321 participants (93.31%) scored non-zero points. The median score of the test was 62.

Top 3 for countries with 10+ participants:

India(123): Prasanna Seshadri, Pranav Kamesh and Rohan Rao (All three in overall Top 10)
Japan(24): Takuya Sugimoto, Kota Morinishi and Hideaki Jo
USA(19): Jason Zuffranieri, William Blatt and Jenna Rivet
Italy(19): Laura Tarchetti, Daniele Colnaghi and Giovanni Frugoli
France(16): Denis Auroux, Yannick MEYAPIN and Arnaud Dumont
Germany(14): Michael Ley, Martin Merker and Robert Vollmert
Poland(13): Piotr Gdowski, Krystian Swiderski and Tomasz Skalski

Thanks Gaurav Kumar Jain for the sudokus!

Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page. The feedback part of the score page is working currently.

Results are currently available here: https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/202003/SM3-Results.pdf

SM3 was dedicated to Shaheer and every participant have paid their tribute to Shaheer by their participation. I whole heartedly thank each and every one of you.

I had almost completed the sudokus set for SM3 when we recevied the tragic news of Shaheer demise and I decided to change the entire theme of the set in his memory. Thanks to organizers to provide me some extra time.

Coming to the feedback that this is easy set, YES this was well thought out decision that this set should be approachable and on the easy side with few high pointers.

I am thankful for your feedback and hopefully will keep improving.

Congratulations to People who are Top-3 overall and Top-3 in India and all the participants. Please participate regularly and dont get scared with Top-50/60 scores, you will surely reach there with practice and regular participation.

I would like to thank Rakesh Rai who is always amazing support. He always remain cool head in accomodating last minute change requests. He is actual hero of running entire show, we are just supplying the sudokus and amount of work he is putting in backend is just superb which always remain unnoticed, believe me it is the most hard part. Thanks Rakesh.

Finally thanks to LMI for giving me the opportunity, which helps author like me to stand with world class authors.

Thanks Gaurav for dedicating SM3 set to Shaheer.

The mini sudokus (page 1 of PB) read 9 A U G (birthday of Shaheer). The other sudokus used his initials (S R) in different forms.

Five variants 6x6 sudokus make S H E R A. His nick name.

The Solution Booklet is now available here.