In terms of issues such as the legibility of text, both for entering solution keys and also the tiny kakuro clues (which I too couldn't read that clearly once printed, even though I used a laser printer), now that there are so many excellent puzzle competitions on LMI might it not be possible to summarise for authors what text sizes and shades of grey "work" and which don't? Also important are page sizes and margins - this test had huge white margins which were unnecessary and made things smaller than they needed to be, and I've also noticed page sizes varying between authors (perhaps Letter versus A4, but I haven't checked to see).

Maybe, when a page is printed without any scaling, there could be a suggested minimum size of clue text and maybe even a minimum size of cell for sudoku-esque puzzles? And page sizes could be chosen so that they are scaled equally when printed on both A4 and Letter? (i.e. pick the minimum of the two sizes in each dimension so that whether you print 'to fit' or 'at original size' you will get a test that prints at a consistent size and is not cropped). In that way tests would generally print with content at the same size no matter where in the world the solver is. It's easy to do this if you're aware of it but possibly something that puzzle authors don't always think about.

Edited by Gareth 2011-11-23 4:04 AM

Can someone tell me how to solve akasuke?
I only find two "0" by "2003" :(

Tawan and Thomas have given some hints a couple of posts earlier.

I had to miss this test, and I'd like to download the booklet. Unfortunately, the [url=http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=M201111P]test page[/url] links to the PDF that is still password protected, and the password is not listed on the test page. Could somebody post the password?

Forgot to remove the password after the test. It is removed now.

In any case the password is TantAluM_tungsten and Tawan never told me what it means

A bit weird, but on the periodic table I once deleted Re (Rhenium) an substituted it for An (some random element), leaving Ta (Tantalum), W (Tungsten) and An which spelt out my name and bragged to my friends about how the table contained my name. The capitalized T A M is merely my nickname. :)