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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-04-14 6:37 PM auroux - 2020-04-14 1:00 AM The Hashi example has a missing bridge in the solution in the lower-right corner. Thanks for pointing the error. It will be corrected. | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-04-14 6:38 PM (Updated) Instruction BookletAn updated Instruction Booklet is now available: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/202004/ Change: Solution for Hashi example corrected. | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-04-17 3:05 PM Puzzle BookletThe password protected Puzzle Booklet is now available here: http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/202004/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-04-17 3:09 PM TentsThe answer key should contain column letters for leftmost tents in each row. Column letters (A,B,C, etc) are displayed above the grid in the Puzzle Booklet in grey colour. Use column letter X if there are no tents in a row. Please go through the example in the Instructions Booklet for more clarity. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 25 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | Puzzle_Maestro posted @ 2020-04-17 6:57 PM
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Posts: 25 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | Puzzle_Maestro posted @ 2020-04-17 7:06 PM I don't understand why letters are used for columns: using numbers seems like a better option. Enjoyable puzzles, and a suitable difficulty level this time! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 65 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | WA1729 posted @ 2020-04-18 8:06 AM
Very nice test as usual! Thanks for putting this together. I'm not a huge fan of the magnets answer key because you have to alternate between holding shift for + and not holding shift for -. Could we use P and N instead? Favorite Puzzles: 4 Skyscrapers - I like the almost symmetric grid. 12 Anglers - The 2x2 blocks of fish made the solve interesting. 19 Skylines - This had a lot of loop / skyscraper interaction. 22 Magnetic Fields - I like this variation a lot. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 739 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | vopani posted @ 2020-04-18 1:51 PM
Too hard period. Favourites: Magnets 10x10, Skylines 8x8, Skyscrapers 7x7 Thanks Priyam and Prasanna! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 3 Country : Germany | Schachus posted @ 2020-04-18 7:01 PM
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Posts: 139 ![]() ![]() Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2020-04-18 8:32 PM
Had some trouble with big hashi. Also hoped to finish the set and it was close. In general nice and logical puzzles. But the points distribution was a bit off for me. Edited by TiiT 2020-04-18 8:32 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 30 ![]() Country : France | Grizix posted @ 2020-04-18 9:44 PM
Maybe it’s just me, but I find answer keys with letters for the column numbering (instead of numbers) really painful. And I cannot see the point of having to put letters instead of digits. The digits are ordered, and the letters are thrown on the keyboard randomly, so I have to put one hand on the grid to check the alignment with the top letter, and the other hand on the keyboard, trembling from one letter to another, eyes staring wildely to find the good letter. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 59 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | bob posted @ 2020-04-18 10:53 PM
Excellent, entertaining themed puzzles as usual. No where near enough time as usual (for me--I have never been a speedy solver). | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 87 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | harmeet posted @ 2020-04-19 1:25 PM
This was fabulous! Priyam, you don't look like a first time author with this episode. Kudos to you and Prasanna for this. Puzzles were on the difficult side but thoroughly enjoyable. Magnets (17) spoiled my day as I got stuck for 15+ minutes and ultimately broke it. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 419 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2020-04-19 5:43 PM
Too hard. Entering answer keys were a chore.In particular, Hashi's was very difficult to enter and I kept putting more digits than needed in the answer key due to wrong interpretation until I figured how it works.Maybe specific clues can be marked above by a letter and asking the number of clues connected to them would have been better ?! Also having so many left out puzzles is no fun when one looks to complete the set.Overall an okay contest with too many difficult puzzles than needed. Thanks Prasanna and Priyam for the contest. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 36 ![]() Country : India | priyambhushan posted @ 2020-04-19 11:07 PM Thank you so much, for your kind words, Harmeet! As a first time author it is very encouraging to hear.. Really glad you liked the Puzzles :) Much thanks to everyone else too for the honest feedback on puzzle quality! Much appreciated :) Edited by priyambhushan 2020-04-19 11:17 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 55 ![]() ![]() Country : India | ashaash11ash posted @ 2020-04-19 11:25 PM The quality of the puzzles were Awesome. I really liked the logic of each and every puzzle. The test was quite hard but enjoyable. It does not seems to be your first round Priyam :) Prasanna is one of the best authors so no need to mention him ;) . unfortunately i solved 2 magnet puzzles and did not type the answer key. 14 points less from the total score :( | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-04-20 12:56 AM
Very nice puzzles. Anglers were all very enjoyable. The exploratory puzzles were very good too. The other 10 pointers were difficult but had very nice solve paths. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 774 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2020-04-20 1:01 AM ashaash11ash - 2020-04-19 11:25 PM Magnets were 2, 6 and 10 points. Which two added up to 14?The quality of the puzzles were Awesome. I really liked the logic of each and every puzzle. The test was quite hard but enjoyable. It does not seems to be your first round Priyam :) Prasanna is one of the best authors so no need to mention him ;) . unfortunately i solved 2 magnet puzzles and did not type the answer key. 14 points less from the total score :( | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 55 ![]() ![]() Country : India | ashaash11ash posted @ 2020-04-20 1:16 AM The 4 pointer exploratory one and the 10 pointer classic one.. | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-04-20 4:17 AM
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Posts: 668 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2020-04-20 9:01 AM
As a lockdown exception, I participated in this round. Superb puzles. Quality and logic was amazing. Of course as others have already stated, its definitely hard round. I broke skyscraper 7 pointer and Hashi 10 pointer at the end. Could have been 17 points more. Didn't get time to even touch Magnets. My favourites were: Skylines and Magnetic Fields Awesome Job Priyam. Quality was excellent though difficulty was hard. Thoroughly Enjoyed. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 26 ![]() Country : Finland | peluri posted @ 2020-04-21 4:23 PM
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Posts: 74 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | mstang posted @ 2020-04-22 7:12 AM
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Posts: 55 ![]() ![]() Country : India | pranavmanu posted @ 2020-04-22 1:35 PM
Fantastic puzzles, great quality. Laptop shut down midway for some reason,and wasted ample time to boot it up again. The difficulty level was pretty high for me, as even the medium pointers took too long to fall. Loved the anglers 8 pointer especially and the magnets set. Slitherlink was a good solve as well. I feel answer key for magnets can be kept as P,N rather than +,-. Thank you Priyam and Prasanna ! | ||||||||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-04-22 8:41 PM
I am a beginner and my opinion is not so important for the general good of the game, because I would never became a representative player. Also I am not a fast person in any aspect so probably I will never be a fast solver, even let assume experience in the end will give me some improvement. Still, I feel most of the tests are build on a difficult or very difficult side and the target diistribution of puzzles (mentioned in the feedback form - 50% easy, 40% medium, 10% hard) is not respected in most cases. Maybe I misjudge the difficulty and maybe this kind of tests are excellent for the top solvers - which is good in perspective of National & World Championship. Did you tought of a B-division kind of? I mean something like a preparation stage for medium or beginners solvers? Maybe this is not a purpose of this project, in this case my question is pointless. And I am not an Indian player, maybe this is also biasing me and is not relevant. I am just curious how you, the experienced players, see this matter. |