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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Contest start
The Contest starts in 5 minutes, 00:45 India time.
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | Just confirming: There is no 2x2 constraint in Top Heavy puzzle. |
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TiiT
Posts: 139
Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2021-03-07 10:13 PM I liked the puzzles!
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2021-03-09 6:01 PM Nice set of puzzles. All the puzzles were solvable logically. I liked the innovative paths in the Nanro Puzzles.
Thanks, Rakesh. Enjoyed this test a lot.
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2021-03-09 10:52 PM Great set of puzzles, very enjoyable test.
Favourite puzzles:
9x9 Top Heavy
10x10 Nanro Signpost
6x6 TomTom (bottom)
Thanks Rakesh!
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A Carton Mutant
Posts: 33
Country : Turkey | Really nice puzzles with logical solving paths. Still, maybe I should have been a bit more intuitive here and there. :)
My favorites: TomTom 2, Top Heavy 1, Magic Summer 2, Top Heavy TomTom 1.
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kishy72
Posts: 419
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2021-03-10 10:48 PM Set was very balanced in difficulty. Amazingly done!
Enjoyed Top Heavy (12) the most followed by Nanro (7).Thanks for the contest Rakesh. Couldn't have expected a better set !
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Country : India | Contest Extension
The contest is extended by 24 hours and shall be open till Thursday 11:59 PM IST (11th March) - based on requests from some participants.
(Participants must start the test before 11:59 PM on 11th March.)
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Country : India | Thanks to the 283 participants from 39+ countries.
Congratulations to Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Hideaki Jo and Nikola Zivanovic for taking the top 3 spots.
Congratulations to Ashish Kumar, Rohan Rao and Jaipal Reddy for taking the top 3 spots from India.
Thanks to Rakesh Rai for authoring this round!
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rakesh_rai
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Country : India | Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate.
Stunning performance from Sam Cappleman-Lynes!. From the submission timings, it seems he got Magic Summer 3 answer key very very quickly (~3:38) and that made a huge difference. Amongst participants from India, Ashish Kumar turned up a very impressive performance - his approach of solving the puzzles in the reverse order worked well.
57 participants completed the set, with seven in the nervous 90s (and many on 84). So, it seems the set was of a decent approachable difficulty level. True to its name, Easy as 123 was the most correctly submitted puzzle - 240 correct submissions; and Magic Summer 3 was, as expected, the least solved - with only 93 participants getting it right.
Thanks for the feedback - Tiit, Rajesh, Rohan, Murat and Kishore. It was the first time I have created Nanro, Magic Summer, Top Heavy and the exploratory types. So the puzzles may have been a mixed bag. As noticed by Kishore, there was an attempt to balance the overall difficulty, although there may have been a skew towards some puzzles. There was an intended attempt to keep the puzzles easier - with inside givens in skyscrapers, lot of clues in Easy as 123, and small cages in tomtom and Nanro - and most participants breezed through them.
The initial version of puzzles had a 10x10 Top Heavy (Range 1-6), an easier / smaller Nanro 3, and less clues in Magic Summer 3. I think all the three changes worked fine.
PR4 is Regions by Swaroop. Looking forward to it.
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