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rob
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Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2021-01-22 10:38 PM greenhorn - 2021-01-22 12:49 AM
Hi, I am struggling to find the time limit for this test. Am I missing something, or do the Instruction Booklet and contest page lack this information?
The "More Information" link on the contest page has these details. (Also wasn't obvious to me to look there initially. ) |
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Country : India | greenhorn - 2021-01-22 12:49 AM
Hi, I am struggling to find the time limit for this test. Am I missing something, or do the Instruction Booklet and contest page lack this information?
The puzzle duration is 90 minutes. The contest page has this information in the "more information" section. The timer also displays the "time remaining" once the contest starts.
However, the Instruction Booklet in its current form does not explicitly mention this. This will be corrected in future contest IBs. Thanks for mentioning this.
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auroux
Posts: 145
Country : France | auroux posted @ 2021-01-22 10:52 PM Most of the puzzles were very nice, but the point values were complete nonsense -- they don't correlate at all with my solving times for the puzzles I solved. Also, after spending 20 minutes on it I just gave up on #22... not a 5-point problem in my opinion, though I probably missed something. Does it have a logical solving path, and if so what is it? (clearly the even-numbered columns must contain a lot of ship segments, but I don't see how to get anywhere from this observation). |
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Puzzle_Maestro
Posts: 25
Country : United Kingdom | Note that the rules state that arrows indicate the number of DIFFERENT ships in the given direction, not the number of ship segments. (A lot of other made the same mistake!) |
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auroux
Posts: 145
Country : France | auroux posted @ 2021-01-23 1:21 AM Puzzle_Maestro - 2021-01-22 10:44 AMNote that the rules state that arrows indicate the number of DIFFERENT ships in the given direction, not the number of ship segments. (A lot of other made the same mistake!) Argh. I can't believe I missed that. That does explain a lot of things.Thanks Freddie for pointing it out. I'm still feeling stupid about this puzzle but for different reasons now... |
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greenhorn
Posts: 164
Country : Slovakia | Administrator - 2021-01-22 10:42 PM
greenhorn - 2021-01-22 12:49 AM
Hi, I am struggling to find the time limit for this test. Am I missing something, or do the Instruction Booklet and contest page lack this information?
The puzzle duration is 90 minutes. The contest page has this information in the "more information" section. The timer also displays the "time remaining" once the contest starts.
However, the Instruction Booklet in its current form does not explicitly mention this. This will be corrected in future contest IBs. Thanks for mentioning this.
Thanks to you and Rob as well... Yes, this is definitely the answer for the "am I missing something?" dilemma : ) |
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Kithyane
Posts: 49
Country : France | Administrator - 2021-01-22 6:38 PM
Kithyane - 2021-01-22 7:55 PM
I have finished the contest and still cannot read this thread. Am I the only one ?
(I'm sure I didn't have this problem for the previous contests of 2021, I always read the thread just after solving) There was likely an issue with the restricting algorithm for this test.
Can you confirm if you can read this message now?
Yes, it's all good now : ) Edited by Kithyane 2021-01-23 5:14 PM
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sojaboon
Posts: 5
Country : The Netherlands | Puzzle_Maestro - 2021-01-23 7:44 AM
Note that the rules state that arrows indicate the number of DIFFERENT ships in the given direction, not the number of ship segments. (A lot of other made the same mistake!)
Aaah, that makes things a lot easier! I'm in team Stupid. :- ) Edited by sojaboon 2021-01-23 8:54 PM
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xiao01wei
Posts: 6
Country : China | there are 2 strange penalty of my submission, both same subTime, same answer, and both correct, although the bonus and points are normal. |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2021-01-24 7:28 PM Very nice set of puzzles. I miss the feedback form :-)
I felt the points distribution was off across types. Kakuros, Four Winds were over-valued, Hitoris / some Yajilins were under-valued.
Favourite puzzles:
Shikaku 10x10
Hitori 9x9
Kakuro-Shikaku 6x6
Thanks Prasanna!
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bskbri
Posts: 34
Country : Turkey | bskbri posted @ 2021-01-25 1:02 AM The test was nice. Thanks :-) My favourites are the hitori puzzles.
I want to suggest to resume the regular format of instructions. The instruction of a single puzzle should be complete (instruction + example + solution of the example) in a single page.
The last puzzle is also nice after reading the instructions :)
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | bskbri - 2021-01-25 1:02 AM
I want to suggest to resume the regular format of instructions. The instruction of a single puzzle should be complete (instruction + example + solution of the example) in a single page.
I would like to have more opinions on this front and also reasoning either way if I am to change the format back. I got feedback that people like to solve the examples and find it difficult to do so with the solution next to it. This seemed like a legitimate concern so I switched it up, and I can't see a concrete reason to switch back, but I may be missing something. |
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Feadoor
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Country : United Kingdom | Feadoor posted @ 2021-01-25 11:23 PM The only disadvantage I see to the new system is that the description of the answer code is on a different page to the actual example answer code, and I had to flick back and forth to make sure I understood the code correctly.
This could be fixed by having a (perhaps shortened) reminder of the code's description on the answer page. |
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professorX
Posts: 35
Country : India | excellent test ... i used penpa for the test and I felt that solving is faster using penpa. |
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professorX
Posts: 35
Country : India | Can LMI ensure that from now onwards all tests including PR and Monthly tests will have penpa links for all puzzles? That would be really awesome .... |
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puzzlemad
Posts: 28
Country : United Kingdom | Thank you. First timed comp for a long time for myself. Got a few puzzles left to solve without time constraint now but nice not to make any mistakes with answer keys on my submissions at all.
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Administrator
Country : India | professorX - 2021-01-26 7:19 PM
Can LMI ensure that from now onwards all tests including PR and Monthly tests will have penpa links for all puzzles? That would be really awesome ....
We have already announced that they will be present for SM and PR rounds. For non SM and PR rounds we can't make any such statement, it is up to the author (s ) if they wish to include them. |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2021-01-29 8:32 AM Great test with a very nice set of puzzles.
I agree with most of the players feedback here that puzzle points allocation could have been better. I found Four Winds Puzzles very easy but has to struggle with the Hitori Puzzles with the same points.
However, overall a great test. Thanks, Prasanna for these puzzles. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Thanks to the 291 participants.
Congratulations to Endo Ken, Hideaki Jo and Walker Anderson for taking the top 3 spots.
Also, Congratulations to Rohan Rao, Amit Sowani and Rajesh Kumar for taking the top 3 spots from India.
Thanks to Prasanna Seshadri for authoring this round! |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | I enjoyed this test - some nice puzzles there.
I liked all the exploratory puzzles and the "3rd puzzle" in all types.
Thanks Prasanna! |
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swaroop2011
Posts: 668
Country : India | Wonderful puzzles.
Although a pretty bad start for me, probably going to the discard pile.
I loved the hitori and shikaku variant.
Thanks, Prasanna, LMI, and the testers. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | |
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