You don't need java. If you are able to see the login box, that means you don't need any additional software on your machine.

Can I suggest to refresh your page and try again? As per our database, you haven't started the test yet. So you can try to start again.

I already refreshed that. Nothing.


I see buttons "start" and "show examples" but they are not acctive (grey) so I cannot proceed further.

The below, there is already mentioned "Connecting to server to get status".

Edited by beat 2011-05-29 8:07 PM

This is really strange. I just made some changes and started the test for you. Can you refresh the page?
Let me know if you can see the password and the timer. If yes, your test has started.

I'll adjust the timer accordingly.

Sorry, still nothing.

Please check my message

You should see the credit for "incomplete sums" in the score page.
Thank you for participating, and keep tab on the List of Monthly tests for the next puzzle and sudoku tests.

There are no black and white kropki in kropki !!!

Edited by Gotroch 2011-05-29 10:06 PM

For beat:




Edited by Gotroch 2011-05-29 10:08 PM

Excellent puzzles, I did the silly silly idiotic mistake of putting the "Incomplete Sums" Answer key in the "X is Alive" space :( probably missed 60 points coz of that, would love to know if that answer was right.

Tricky and hard but enjoyable puzzles...Like Fred, I also missed 60 points by 2 or 3 seconds.

I ask myself why organizers chose a duration of 100 minutes and not 100 minutes + 4 seconds for this test

Haha that always happens to me in all other tests but in this one I got the answer in a few seconds before time but like I said earlier I got it into the wrong place :D

The answer is wrong by few digits :-)

Since no one is participating right now, "Something is Missing" is now officially over.
No doubt tough Sudokus, but motris breezed through 9 of them, and takes the first position. uvo, deu and misko take the next positions.

Among Indian results, Rakesh and Rohan take top 2 positions with respectable scores, and prasanna takes 3rd position.

Hello - I attempted to start this too late. I would still like to download the contest and attempt the puzzles, but it seems you cannot do that this time. I cant get the password when I log on. Can you please provide it? Thanks.

Password will be automatically be displayed after 7:10AM (Indian time), anyway here is the password - 28_Good_5_Luck_29
Or, you can download the booklet without password from the downloads section

Hey, thanks very much!

120 minutes would have been more appropriate - at least couple of players could have completed, but I'm not sure.
Some of the puzzles were very hard - as I see from the score page, lots of players last submitted puzzles long time before their scheduled end time (e.g. Ulrich 23 minutes)

In any case, I thought it was a nice theme, and a nice set of puzzles. I especially liked NonConsecutive - I have never seen (or thought about) an NC puzzle with only odd or even digits.

I made an all even NC "Getting Even" for Mutant Sudoku, but I enjoyed Gotroch's just as much here. I'm inspired to attempt a 2-number NC sometime soon. The challenge isn't getting a valid puzzle, so much as getting an interesting puzzle that a normal person can solve. I also completely expected the Kropki to have no dots and enjoyed solving that puzzle with negative inference as well.

My biggest downfall was starting on the Instructionless. Looking at it while the test was printing was a perfect use of the time, but then breaking the puzzle and catching it on checking, only to restart, was not a good use of 15 minutes for 30 points. While the test might have timed perfectly without us making mistakes, with so many hard puzzles I bet a few of us, myself included, found needing to start over or from a fresh printout to be absolutely necessary.

Edited by motris 2011-05-30 7:13 AM

Good luck with 2-digits NC - it sounds too difficult to make (as well as to solve)
Missing dots in Kropki was very much expected line and it fitted the theme perfectly, but there were at least 3 posts saying "hey, the pdf file has some problem and I can't see the dots in Kropki". We edited those posts during the test, and unedited later.

The first time I encountered nonconsecutive was in a section of Japanese nanpure variants that was consecutive and then suddenly lost all the bars. It was a really fun discovery. I suppose I'm fully spoiled to get the "no dots is not a problem" experience now, but I can appreciate the comments others had on the Kropki.

One thing I've learned with making NC is that it is incredibly easy to specify just 1 puzzle but very difficult for a human to appreciate the packing constraints that give it just one solution. That's why I liked the smoothness of the NC on this test a whole lot, for doing a very limiting theme. But to show it's not impossible, these six givens form a valid 1-digit NC, but I've yet to work through the whole puzzle logically to get to the solution:

_ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _
_ 3 _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _
_ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ 3 _
------+-------+------
_ _ 3 | _ _ _ | _ _ _
_ _ _ | _ _ 3 | _ _ _
_ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _
------+-------+------
_ _ _ | _ 3 _ | _ _ _
_ _ _ | _ _ _ | 3 _ _
_ _ _ | _ _ _ | _ _ _

Excellent puzzles, Jakub!
Lost lot of time in "which digit is missing" because i forgot a rule that all digits on the connected green line are different; realizing it just in time.
the instructionless puzzle is still intriguing me... can anyone help in letting know the instructions?

Best regards.

Edited by harmeet 2011-05-30 12:20 PM

I must admit that I didn't get it for a while.
Instead of revealing the answer, let me give you a clue.

Thats good to know, I guessed once towards the end knowing time was running out and I didn't want to miss submission by few seconds again

Hi,

I submitted 7 correct answers and it shows as 0/7. I sent in answers to Nonconsecutive, Kropki, Jigsaw, Toroidal, Incomplete Sums, Draw a Jigsaw and Which Digit is Missing? My user name is shreyas2k6 and I'm Shreyas for India.

Please check the same. I worked really hard on these puzzles :)