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DanAvi
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Country : India | DanAvi posted @ 2021-11-11 10:14 PM I agree that this will definitely be hours and hours of fun.
Initially I thought that the 10 days time frame would be enough to leisurely enjoy everything. But it looks like, to enjoy this fully and attempt every round, more time would be needed to most competitors, like me, who are beginners to this level of puzzling and also have busy schedule otherwise too. So it might be good if the organizers, extend the time limit by another week, upto 28th, to include 3 week-ends, so that more number of competitors would attempt the competition in full. Knowing about the extension now before the competition begins rather than on the last day of the competition works best for scheduling purposes. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Our motives here are to simultaneously provide a good challenge for the world's best competitors and also allow other solvers to have a fun 10 days of solving and interacting. To that end, we may look at a slight extension (e.g. a day) so that 2 weekends are completely used, and that is what we are discussing. A week isn't on the cards unfortunately - please consider that the convention is going to take a huge load on the website and also on the people supervising things. Also remember that the puzzles will be available for you to try out after the event too. |
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prasanna16391
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | We have shared an alternate registration form (a few posts above) so that participants who don't use google for whatever reason can access it. Please fill this OR the google form before participating. |
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | We have a small new feature at the top right of the home page to keep track of the rounds beginning/ending, etc. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | The main competition part is now available!
Please use this or one of the main threads for general queries but use the round specific threads for post contest discussion. All "Discussion Thread" links from the submission pages go to their specific rounds.
All the best to everyone!
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prasanna16391
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Country : India | Note: Minor error in the key of a Puzzle in Round 10 is fixed. Since only 2 people attempted it so far, we will amend those results and let it stay. Apologies to those two participants. |
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tony60
| tony60 posted @ 2021-11-13 11:22 PM just wondering how can i participate for the world sudoku for the first time. |
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Conniearthur
Posts: 1
| I am seeing something confusing to me. In Temple of Sudoku (Part 4) Instruction booklet, puzzle 6, it shows numbers on the outside of the large cube and says that number is the number of digits of that parity within that line as the first number going inward, as I understand it. But in row 6 of that example puzzle, each side has an odd number as a starting number, and the "parity" number is 1, but there is a 1:3 string in that row. Also in column 3, same question -shouldn't that be a 2 for each of those rows or columns? Thanks for taking the time to answer! I'm new to this, and trying to understand the rules. |
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Wendy
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Country : China | Wendy posted @ 2021-11-14 11:53 AM Hi! I'm not 100% sure I fully understood what you said. The outside digit being X means that the first X number of that direction has the same parity, and the (X+1)th number has a different parity. So, for example, in row 6, when you look from the left, the first digit is 7 (odd), and the second digit is 6 (even), which is of different parity from the first digit. So the outside number should be 1 from that direction, and similarly if you look from the right.
Let me know if this clears it up for you! |
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greenhorn
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fgeldon
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| fgeldon posted @ 2021-11-15 5:26 AM For those of us who will not have time to do all the puzzle competitions during the allotted time period, but would like to be able to do the puzzles afterwards at our "leisure," will the puzzles still be accessible online after the Puzzle Convention ends? I would like not to have to open each puzzle competition just to print the puzzles, and then score zero in most of them. That would be embarrassing! |
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Wendy
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Country : China | Wendy posted @ 2021-11-15 8:33 AM Hi! All the puzzles will be available here after the competition ends. As said in the opening ceremony, please go with your flow, enjoy the puzzles, and don't overwhelm yourself! |
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Administrator
Country : India |
Hall of Fame
There is a results summary up now in the form of a Hall Of Fame page, and this is linked to in the top right. As noted on the page, if your country appears as *Unknown* please update it in your profile.
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Administrator
Country : India |
Final Schedule Overview - Main Competition Extended
We have addressed a request for extension and the Main Competition rounds will be extended and now end on Monday, 3 PM GMT. The Bonus Rounds still end as per the previous plan on Sunday, Noon GMT. The changes will reflect on the progress page soon. The final header and schedule are posted in the Schedule Overview section of the Landing page, but here is a quick link - https://www.worldpuzzle.org/files/106/new%20header%20extend.pdf
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xiaoluobo
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Country : China | Dear administrator, I'm from China mainland. I've finished 2 rounds of sudoku on Monday night, but LMI website couldn't be conneted from last night till this morning,and now it seems normal again. Do you know what had happened? |
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Administrator
Country : India |
New Features
- Completed Time Trials can now be done unofficially.
- The progress page now has two new columns, one will contain Puzzle Booklets of completed rounds, and the other contains the passwords to open them with.
- The Hall of Fame page now has a link (under the WSC header and the WPC header respectively) to complete results for each of Sudoku and Puzzles. If you have completed all rounds of Sudoku, you will be able to see the scores as well, otherwise just the ranks, and same for Puzzles.
- The results pages of completed Time Trials are now public and can be viewed without any restriction. You can quickly navigate to them via the Progress page by clicking on the respective round link and then clicking the results at the top left of the submission page.
- The cooldown period for all live results pages is dropped down to 1 hour. However, please still be mindful of frequent refreshes impacting the load on the website.
Happy puzzling!
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Country : India | xiaoluobo - 2021-11-17 11:51 AM
Dear administrator, I'm from China mainland. I've finished 2 rounds of sudoku on Monday night, but LMI website couldn't be conneted from last night till this morning,and now it seems normal again. Do you know what had happened?
Considering there was frequent activity during this time on the LMI site, we do not know what happened unfortunately. We hope it doesn't happen again and you're able to enjoy the remainder of the event. |
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CJK
Posts: 11
Country : Germany | CJK posted @ 2021-11-17 11:49 PM I have completed all the Puzzle rounds, but cannot see the scores (there are "-" everywhere). Do you have an idea, why? |
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Administrator
Country : India | CJK - 2021-11-17 11:49 PM
I have completed all the Puzzle rounds, but cannot see the scores (there are "-" everywhere). Do you have an idea, why?
If you checked immediately, it may be because that page takes around 30 minutes at a time to periodically refresh. Try again a little later. If you still can't see it, report that to us again. Thanks. |
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CJK
Posts: 11
Country : Germany | CJK posted @ 2021-11-18 12:06 AM Administrator - 2021-11-17 6:56 PM
If you checked immediately, it may be because that page takes around 30 minutes at a time to periodically refresh. Try again a little later. If you still can't see it, report that to us again. Thanks.
I have completed the last round yesterday (about 28 hours ago, to be precise :D ), so I think that this shouldn't be the issue. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Ah, we will look into it. Give us some time. |
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Administrator
Country : India | CJK - 2021-11-18 12:06 AM
Administrator - 2021-11-17 6:56 PM
If you checked immediately, it may be because that page takes around 30 minutes at a time to periodically refresh. Try again a little later. If you still can't see it, report that to us again. Thanks.
I have completed the last round yesterday (about 28 hours ago, to be precise :D ), so I think that this shouldn't be the issue. We resolved a related issue now. Can you please check again and confirm?
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CJK
Posts: 11
Country : Germany | CJK posted @ 2021-11-18 4:56 AM Administrator - 2021-11-17 11:17 PM
I have completed the last round yesterday (about 28 hours ago, to be precise :D), so I think that this shouldn't be the issue. We resolved a related issue now. Can you please check again and confirm?
Yes, now it does work fine, thanks a lot :) |
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greenhorn
Posts: 164
Country : Slovakia |
Dear sudoku and puzzle friends,
we hope that you are enjoying the World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention 2021 and having fun with our sudoku, puzzles, or interviews.
As we wanted to give the essence of the championship to those who do not attend it every year, we decided to keep the whole event free. More than a thousand registered players proved to us that this was a good decision, and our puzzling community can benefit from that in the future.
However, you may have noticed how much work has been done in a few months to prepare for such an event. This is why we want to kindly ask you for a small donation so that we can reward the effort and time of the puzzle authors and organizers who volunteered in their free time and spent hundreds of hours creating, re-drawing, testing the puzzles, and preparing the side events.
You can use PayPal or the Buy Me a Coffee platform for the donation. We will be happy for any amount of money and that will be used for the winner‘s prizes, author‘s rewards, and extension of website capacity.
Thank you very much and enjoy the rest of the event!
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