I am not sure, but I have the "feeling" of having seen the countdown still going. It seems quite likely that the time had indeed expired, I was surprised to still see some time left. Perhaps the timer was stopped between my last valid submission and the first invalid one, then restarted at the previous value. It seems counterintuitive, but I do not know how the timer is implemented.

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Due to many requests, the round has been extended by 24 hours. There will be no further extensions.

Thanks for a very fun and challenging round Nityant and James !

I stumbled too much on the irregular and lost precious time and Arrow I thought had a really narrow solve.

Favourites are :

i) Killer 9x9
ii) Parquet 9x9
iii) Arithmetic pair 9x9

Hope to see you all in offline finals !

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I am a bit late, but here is the Sudoku Mahabharat closing message :)

Firstly, I've now updated a new Puzzle Booklet PDF for this round. It contains a bonus puzzle 19, an Arrow Sudoku that was rejected for being too difficult. It is still a lovely puzzle and themed for the round so please give it a try and let us know your experience on it! (Edit - there is a problem with the answer check, I'll fix it soon (Edit - Fixed, but its still behaving weirdly for some solvers. Ignore the hurray message and go ahead and solve. Here is the solution for reference - https://tinyurl.com/26htecrl ))

Secondly, we have cumulative results! As you all know, this year we had 4 rounds and the best 3 scores are selected to add up to the grand total.

Here are the Indian results which are relevant to ISC qualification: https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2022-Ranks.asp
The top 60 will be sent a mail soon about this.

Here are the overall results including International Participants: https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2022-Ranks.asp?all=1
SM 2022 had 579 participants getting a non-zero score. Thank you all for participating, and hope to see you again for next year's series!

Hi
Tentatively when shall we be receiving the emails (for the first 60 solvers)

Regards,
Sunder

The mail was sent a while ago. If you haven't received it, check your spam, and if its not there either then mail logicmasteradmin@gmail.com, as long as you are in the top 60.

We will be sending a follow up mail soon too, as the venue has been finalized and there's more concrete information now.

The details for registration for the National Finals are here now - https://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2022pr-sm-finals.asp

We have also mailed participants about it (the top 60 from both sets of online rounds. If you are in the top 60 and didn't receive it, it may be because you have told us you are not attending in previous communications. If you are in the top 60 and are interested in attending, and didn't receive the mail, let us know here or by sending a mail to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com ). Others can feel free to sign up on the waiting list if they want to, after reading the details.