Introduction

Welcome to the next installment in our daily contest series, Nurimisaki Nomad. This journey will take participants through a set of Nurimisaki puzzles. Check out the about page for rules and visual explanations.

The contest kicks off on 17th Sep 2022 at 8:00 AM IST with the first official puzzle and then a new puzzle releasing every 30 hours. The final official puzzle will be released on 6th October 2022 at 2:00 AM IST. There will be 21 puzzles, with the first five being trial puzzles, after which the actual contest will begin, containing 16 puzzles. The order of puzzles is not necessarily according to difficulty. Please read the following rules carefully.

1. Participants must solve within the 30-hour window of the puzzle to be considered for the official ranking of that day (i.e., the submission must be before the 30-hour window ends).
2. Participants can still solve the puzzle outside the official window but won't be awarded any points for that day.
3. The contest page will show which puzzle is active at any given moment.
4. Click on the "Start" button to start the puzzle. A new window will open. The puzzle page does not contain rules.
5. Once the solver thinks they have reached a solution, they must click the "Submit Solution" button at the bottom of the grid.
6. Instant grading is enabled. If the solution is correct, a pop-up will appear saying so, and the player can rate the puzzle and provide any feedback, which will appear on the discussions page. Next, there will be a link to go back to the contest page.
7. Penalty – Penalty system is same as used in previous series. With one wrong submission, a player's final time will be 110% of their actual solve time to reach the correct solution. With each further wrong submission, 20% will be added (e.g., with 3 wrong submissions, the final time will be 150% of the solve time, etc.
8. Scoring – Points are give to top 200 players for each puzzle. Details are explained in scoring page.

I know this is perhaps a niche request, but would it be possible to add a button to upcoming puzzles to let you copy as Discord timestamp (the sorts of things you can make with https://hammertime.cyou/)? I'm on a Discord with others doing this contest and we have a thread going where we post when new ones are up and with a timestamp to the next one; it would be nice if we could get it with one click :) (I personally like the :F and :R variants.)

We have added a button that copies timestamp for future puzzles. Hope this is what you were suggesting. Let us know.

Thanks, although I think you want to divide by 1000 :)

Done.

Can someone explain how the "Resize" button works? I tried to change the grid size to fit my display better and as a result fully destroy the puzzle and couldn't continue solving. Reload of the page doesn't help. Is there a button to return a default settings?

Hi Andrey,Firstly, Sorry for the inconvenience,The "Resize" button works exactly as you described. However, there is a known bug that, if the puzzle was rotated by the author, then the resize button creates an issue. It's a work in progress but might take time to get fixed as I am currently traveling.Can you please let me know which puzzle? So that I make sure, it's because of that reason and not something else.On your second note, how to reset it, This is because penpa+ has the feature to save your progress, unfortunately, the grid is now corrupted because of the bug and it got saved that way, follow the below steps to reset it)After you load the puzzle -> Click on the Settings on the Top Right --> Click on "Clear this puzzle" (Located at the bottom of the popup), Set Local Storage --> OFF and then reload the page. It should reset your puzzle back to its original.Let me know if you still face any issues,Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I really enjoy these puzzles, but I am very slow :( I only get by on the EarlyBirds leaderboard...

However, on the Nurimisaki 9, I don't understand what happened: I made two failed validation attempts before I got an accepted validation, after 34.51 minutes!

Problem: I always validated the same solution, just the first two times I still had blue instead of green, and a light grey instead of black. More surprisingly, I don't get any penalties! But then I should have a lower time, corresponding to my first validation, right?

Well, the stakes are not huge: it won't change the general ranking...

There is only one entry in the backend database, so we are not sure how this one happened. Do you have screenshots of error message after you submitted? Don't think it is possible to analyze further without them.

Congratulations to IHNN, WA1729 and Puzzle_Maestro for taking the top 3 spots. This is second win for IHNN after Kurotto Kingdom.



Hope everyone enjoyed the relatively unfamiliar genre.

Leftover puzzles from author's blog:

https://mark-sweep.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-nurimisaki-nomad-leftover...

Excellent puzzles, thank you for your great work Mark Sweep!