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Fred76
Posts: 337
 
Country : Switzerland | Fred76 posted @ 2011-11-23 5:57 PM Para - 2011-11-23 4:16 AM
Is there any chance there can be an optimalisation used like they have on logic masters deutschland for late submissions? That way you always get your maximum score and don't have to worry about calculating how many points you lost by submitting late and then comparing it to the score of the puzzle. Because in the calculating of that you might lose another 12 points while verifying if it's worth submitting or not.
Agree with that. The LMD optimisation system is good. It's always a bit frustating when you submit after the time, and you notice that you lose points because of that.
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | debmohanty - 2011-11-23 9:45 AM
I can see two usages of the extra time.
1) If you check Janoslaw's submissions in Fusion test, it looks like he was engrossed in solving, almost forgot to submit. But when he started submitting, he didn't have enough time to submit all. Having extra time would have enabled him to submit all his solved ones with a minor penalty
2) If your 120 minutes is up, but you are may be 1 or 2 minutes away from finishing a puzzle, you should continue solving and submit asap. This works like a tie breaker in this case.
I like the idea of extra time. But I think the 10 minutes is too much time.
If the aim of this system is what you wrote 5 minutes is more than enough. |
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debmohanty
 
Country : India | About Extra time
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For this contest, we will make few minor changes to extra time concept.
1 ) Penalty will be .2 points per second
2 ) In the submission page, you can see the amount of penalty when 'Extra Time' is running. This will help you determine easily if you should submit any puzzle or not. See attachment.
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debmohanty
Country : India |
Change in timings
Based on a suggestion in UK forum, we are increasing the timing of this competition.
It now starts Friday evening GMT and runs till Monday night GMT
Please visit the Snake Variations Contest 2011 submission page to know the exact times in your time zone.
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Administrator
Country : India | Password protected puzzle booklet added. It has 13 pages, including a cover page. As noted earlier, example grids are not present in the puzzle booklet. |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2011-11-26 2:53 AM Is there still going to be a claim bonus button? Not that I expect it will apply to me, but as I saw it said score won't be available till Extra time is over. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Para - 2011-11-26 2:53 AM
Is there still going to be a claim bonus button? Not that I expect it will apply to me, but as I saw it said score won't be available till Extra time is over. If you claim bonus, you can see the scores instantaneously. For claiming bonus, it is required to submit all puzzles. |
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tamz29
Posts: 225
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2011-11-26 7:38 AM Does this test affect your ratings? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | tamz29 - 2011-11-26 7:38 AM
Does this test affect your ratings? No, this is already answered in "About Annual Competitions" thread. |
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Administrator
Country : India | Yet another quick note about Penalty points
The time of your submission will be the time the server received your answer, not the time you clicked on submit button. In most cases the difference will be couple of seconds. |
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rajeshk
Posts: 542
Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2011-11-26 2:02 PM Great puzzles. Thanks to the organizers and Author for this great test.
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anurag
Posts: 136
Country : India | anurag posted @ 2011-11-26 7:51 PM If length of a segment is more than 10, how to write the answer? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | anurag - 2011-11-26 7:51 PM
If length of a segment is more than 10, how to write the answer?
We'll accept answers with unit digit, if that is what you are asking about. |
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anurag
Posts: 136
Country : India | anurag posted @ 2011-11-26 9:12 PM Serkan: I think you forgot to write this in the answer key. Thanks for a fun and challenging test. |
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | anurag - 2011-11-26 9:12 PM
Serkan: I think you forgot to write this in the answer key. Thanks for a fun and challenging test.
: ) No, actually I didn't forget. This issue is a specific condition, so I didn't want to consider a general case in this contest, so I ignored that. Because we can easily give points to both answer formats, not a big deal. Main idea in my mind is that don't make confusion for competitors with more details in answer format
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mucha
Posts: 13
Country : Poland | mucha posted @ 2011-11-26 11:14 PM Beautiful puzzles. I did terribly but liked the puzzles a lot, especially the snake egg puzzle.
Edited by mucha 2011-11-26 11:14 PM
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | To get bonus points all puzzles must be solved, so if a competitor solve 15 + half of Spiral Snake puzzle he/she cannot get bonus points, he should solve whole Spiral Snake puzzle.
Edited by yureklis 2011-11-27 4:58 AM
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MellowMelon
Country : United States | Thanks for the excellent Snake puzzles, and hoping my one bit of stupidity can be forgiven. I particularly enjoyed Graffiti and Sigma. |
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Nikola
Posts: 103
Country : Serbia | Nikola posted @ 2011-11-27 5:20 AM Thank you, Serkan, for amazing snakes. The last two tests here were definitely great!
Nikola |
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Rubben
Posts: 20
Country : Romania | Rubben posted @ 2011-11-27 4:36 PM Very beautiful puzzle! Thanks! |
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motris
Posts: 199
Country : United States | motris posted @ 2011-11-28 12:51 AM Great puzzles. Bad typos from me. If only some method of instant grading existed.... |
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debmohanty
Country : India | As announced earlier, this contest will be open till Monday midnight GMT (approximately 20 hours from now) |
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Ziti
Posts: 42
Country : United States | Ziti posted @ 2011-11-28 12:33 PM Terrific work, Serkan! I will spend many hours on the ones I did not finish, and really enjoyed the ones I did (except maybe that one I got SO CLOSE to finishing!!).
Thank you for generously offering your time to write these puzzles for all of us to enjoy.
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ColinMacLeod
Posts: 3
Country : United States | Thanks for the puzzles.
I would recommend consistent wording for whether or not snakes can diagonally touch. Some instructions refer to "points", others "diagonally", and others make no mention of diagonal touching.
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