@ 2011-11-26 2:02 PM (#6057 - in reply to #5990) (#6057) Top | |
Posts: 542 Country : India | rajeshk posted @ 2011-11-26 2:02 PM Great puzzles. Thanks to the organizers and Author for this great test. |
@ 2011-11-26 7:51 PM (#6059 - in reply to #5990) (#6059) Top | |
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? |
@ 2011-11-26 8:13 PM (#6060 - in reply to #6059) (#6060) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-26 8:13 PM 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. |
@ 2011-11-26 9:12 PM (#6061 - in reply to #6060) (#6061) Top | |
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. |
@ 2011-11-26 9:59 PM (#6062 - in reply to #6061) (#6062) Top | |
Posts: 183 Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2011-11-26 9:59 PM 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 Thanks |
@ 2011-11-26 11:14 PM (#6063 - in reply to #5990) (#6063) Top | |
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 |
@ 2011-11-27 4:48 AM (#6064 - in reply to #6063) (#6064) Top | |
Posts: 183 Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2011-11-27 4:48 AM 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 |
@ 2011-11-27 4:54 AM (#6065 - in reply to #5990) (#6065) Top | |
Country : United States | MellowMelon posted @ 2011-11-27 4:54 AM Thanks for the excellent Snake puzzles, and hoping my one bit of stupidity can be forgiven. I particularly enjoyed Graffiti and Sigma. |
@ 2011-11-27 5:20 AM (#6066 - in reply to #6065) (#6066) Top | |
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 |
@ 2011-11-27 4:36 PM (#6068 - in reply to #5990) (#6068) Top | |
Posts: 20 Country : Romania | Rubben posted @ 2011-11-27 4:36 PM Very beautiful puzzle! Thanks! |
@ 2011-11-28 12:51 AM (#6070 - in reply to #5990) (#6070) Top | |
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.... |
@ 2011-11-28 8:45 AM (#6072 - in reply to #5990) (#6072) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-28 8:45 AM As announced earlier, this contest will be open till Monday midnight GMT (approximately 20 hours from now) |
@ 2011-11-28 12:33 PM (#6073 - in reply to #5990) (#6073) Top | |
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. JZ |
@ 2011-11-28 1:20 PM (#6074 - in reply to #5990) (#6074) Top | |
Posts: 3 Country : United States | ColinMacLeod posted @ 2011-11-28 1:20 PM 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. Trayton |
@ 2011-11-28 5:27 PM (#6075 - in reply to #5990) (#6075) Top | |
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?) Alberto |
@ 2011-11-28 6:00 PM (#6076 - in reply to #6075) (#6076) Top | |
Posts: 183 Country : Turkey | yureklis posted @ 2011-11-28 6:00 PM 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. |
@ 2011-11-29 8:18 AM (#6077 - in reply to #5990) (#6077) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-29 8:18 AM 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. |
@ 2011-11-29 9:41 AM (#6079 - in reply to #5990) (#6079) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-29 9:41 AM I'm not a big fan of Classic Snake puzzles (I probably have some aversion to the fact that the length is specified), but most of the puzzles in this contest uses several other logic. I especially liked the second part of the puzzles (snakes without lengths). Not a snake-puzzle-lover yet, but I think I like them more than I used to. An unrelated note : Another test where "Claim Bonus" button had a role determining the top ranks. uvo spent close to 4 minutes before hitting Claim Bonus, MellowMelon caught his mistake before hitting the button (lucky?), motris had 2 typos which he probably could have caught if there were no Claim Bonus button. |
@ 2011-11-29 11:01 AM (#6080 - in reply to #6079) (#6080) Top | |
Posts: 739 Country : India | vopani posted @ 2011-11-29 11:01 AM I did not participate in the Snake Variations Contest last year. After this year's contest, I do not think I'll miss one again :-) All the puzzles were excellent. Creating good and tricky puzzles, yet not very tough, is clearly an art, that not many possess. Serkan definitely does have it and after every test of his, there is 'satisfying' factor that I feel irrespective of my performance. I liked Masyu and Sigma the best of the set. It never struck me that the snake could begin from one of the 'adjacent white circles' until a few minutes into solving. What really disappointed me is the Congrats to Ulrich, Palmer and Nikola. Thanks Serkan for the wonderful contest. Edited by Rohan Rao 2011-11-29 12:58 PM |
@ 2011-11-29 11:25 AM (#6081 - in reply to #5990) (#6081) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-29 11:25 AM Serpentine was certainly easy, or may be I was lucky. The key was to find the two dead ends. One of the dead end was easy to find at R2C2. There are a bunch of white circles in top right corner, and I figured that one of them had to the other dead-end. Once you figure R4C9, it was all about how fast you can move your pencil. |
@ 2011-11-29 12:29 PM (#6082 - in reply to #6081) (#6082) Top | |
Posts: 739 Country : India | vopani posted @ 2011-11-29 12:29 PM Eh... Sorry, typo. I meant 'Sea Serpent'. |
@ 2011-11-29 3:12 PM (#6085 - in reply to #5990) (#6085) Top | |
Posts: 21 Country : Germany | uvo posted @ 2011-11-29 3:12 PM Sea Serpent: The key (at least for me) was to realize that the snake needs both R8C9 and R8C10, otherwise the 2 and 4 in column 8 can't be both satisfied. After that, look at the 7 and 8 in column 10. |
@ 2011-11-29 3:49 PM (#6086 - in reply to #5990) (#6086) Top | |
Country : India | debmohanty posted @ 2011-11-29 3:49 PM 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 Solution to Masyu Snake Edited by debmohanty 2011-11-29 3:50 PM |
@ 2011-11-29 6:06 PM (#6089 - in reply to #6086) (#6089) Top | |
Posts: 21 Country : ITALY | alberto posted @ 2011-11-29 6:06 PM Thank you Deb for the picture, I found the correct solution this morning. A ridiculous blind point was working. :-) Alberto |
@ 2011-11-29 7:04 PM (#6090 - in reply to #5990) (#6090) Top | |
Posts: 1801 Country : India | prasanna16391 posted @ 2011-11-29 7:04 PM Really enjoyed the test. I used to think I'm horrible at snake, and leave it whenever it appeared in competitions. Not gonna do that from now, found these solvable and fun and got quite a morale boost. :) |