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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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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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alberto
Posts: 21
Country : ITALY | alberto posted @ 2011-11-28 5:27 PM Great job Serkan, thank you. But I didn' find a solution for Masyu Snake. Was it possible that the snake touches itself diagonally? It wasn't specified in the PB. Otherwise I miss something. (May I have a visual solution?)
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yureklis
Posts: 183
Country : Turkey | alberto - 2011-11-28 5:27 PM
Great job Serkan, thank you. But I didn' find a solution for Masyu Snake. Was it possible that the snake touches itself diagonally? It wasn't specified in the PB. Otherwise I miss something. (May I have a visual solution?)
Alberto
It has a solution, probably you missed something. For Masyu Snake in the IB says that the snake cannot touch itself, so I think it is clear about diagonally touching. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Snake Variations Contest 2011 is now over. uvo won the contest, as he did last year. MellowMelon takes the second place. Nikola is other only other player to have solved all puzzles within 120 minutes.
A total of 168 players participated from 32 countries, of which 131 players got 0+ scores.
A little early for Serkan now, but I think he will soon post his views about the puzzles and the competition as a whole.
Thank you everyone for participating. |
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