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@ 2011-12-19 2:52 PM (#6212 - in reply to #6211) (#6212) Top

debmohanty




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debmohanty posted @ 2011-12-19 2:52 PM

Minfang Lin - 2011-12-19 1:50 PM

I think some hints in "sum or product frame" can be removed, like 15 in col5, 18 in row9, 15 in col9, 18 in col1, 10 in row8, 10 in row4, and the puzzle has unique solution too.
But maybe it will make participator much easier to find the point :)

The original puzzle didn't have the 4 inside clues. But then it was much harder. I added those 4 hints after Zoltan's testing, but I didn't check if I should remove some of the outside hints.

The score page has some bugs - points for Linked Mini is not computed for all, motris' row shows 0/18, and some players' score is missing completely. Allow me few hours to make the score page public after I fix the bugs.
@ 2011-12-19 5:37 PM (#6213 - in reply to #6166) (#6213) Top

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2011-12-19 5:37 PM

Can someone post the solution to Outside Killer, if the test is now over? I'm really getting muddled up somewhere, even though I feel I've used solid logic am getting a column repeat.

As for the test, some really nice Sudokus. My best rank on LMI, so I'm quite happy with my performance even though I can still improve(my classics speed is horrible, believe it or not I took 3 min each for both the 25 point classic and the 80 point Nonconsecutive killer [:s] ).
@ 2011-12-19 5:47 PM (#6214 - in reply to #6213) (#6214) Top

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debmohanty posted @ 2011-12-19 5:47 PM

prasanna16391 - 2011-12-19 5:37 PM

Can someone post the solution to Outside Killer, if the test is now over?


@ 2011-12-19 6:46 PM (#6215 - in reply to #6166) (#6215) Top

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debmohanty posted @ 2011-12-19 6:46 PM

Results are public now - Congratulations to janoslaw for winning Best of LMI Mocks. motris is close 2nd. Nikola takes the third position and also wins Serbian Championship.

Rohan, Prasanna and Tejal take the top 3 Indian ranks.

199 players participated, out of which 173 players submitted at least one sudoku correctly.

There were way too many submission mistakes this time, possibly because there were so many sudokus (usually we have 12, but this time we had 18). There is some leniency in accepting typos which in other tests had been rejected straightaway.

Thanks to Zoltan for all his help before/during/after the test, and also to Umit for creating a nice logo.
@ 2011-12-19 7:04 PM (#6216 - in reply to #6166) (#6216) Top

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Minfang Lin posted @ 2011-12-19 7:04 PM

I wrote the steps of sum or product frame here.
And it seems 10 for r8c123 and 24 for r789c6 did not be used.
Maybe it will become a harder puzzle.
I like the logic in Block9 that r7c789,r8c789,r9c789 only one is product.
@ 2011-12-19 7:07 PM (#6217 - in reply to #6214) (#6217) Top

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2011-12-19 7:07 PM

debmohanty - 2011-12-19 5:47 PM

prasanna16391 - 2011-12-19 5:37 PM

Can someone post the solution to Outside Killer, if the test is now over?




Thanks, I got where I went wrong :) Silly error of eliminating the 1 in R6C6 for no reason.

Edited by prasanna16391 2011-12-19 7:07 PM
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