Thanks for another nice puzzle. Again with nice logic steps. I definitely like this type!

I found one loop, but there is one cell that can be passed in two different ways: it's the 2 in Row 16, Column 20. When I found this spot halfway solving, I hesitated to proceed, since I thought I had made an error somewhere. But I ignored, went on en finished the puzzle, with this minor non-uniqueness left.
Maybe you can have another look at it?

Best regards, Richard

Hi Richard,
This is the first type I have solved and solved it very carefully. I found it to be having unique solution.
I think you are wrong at the two consecutive white circles to the right top of R16C20 clue '2', for that part the path is unique and direct.
Please check it.

Regards,
Ravi

You're welcome Richard.

Regarding the uniqueness, what Ravi said, you need to consider the behaviour of the two consecutive white circles above it. Its very much unique, I'm pretty sure of that now, I've had to check that one some 9 times by now because different people seem to find different spots to get confused . Anyway I'll be putting up the solutions today sometime in 2 hours when I get over my laziness. You can check and tally if you want.

Solved the practice puzzle #2, I made a mess somewhere else, but it is certainly unique around the 2 at R16C20.

Yep, sorry, my mistake. I worked overtime till late yesterday evening and decided that I still had right to have half an hour of puzzling fun so started the puzzle. Being tired is not the best condition to start puzzling, as I can see now. I missed indeed the two white dots on the right side. My sincere apologies for all the confusion!

Best regards, Richard

Its alright. I was in the same state while giving the Shapes and Sizes test, so I understand :D

Anyway, here's the solutions for both puzzles : http://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/practice-puzzle-so... Password - PP12.

Also, I made a Graffiti Snake which can also be used as practice I suppose, so I've put it up today even though its actually the 22nd puzzle I've made

Here it is : http://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/puzzle-no-20-graff...

A refreshingly different approach! The tenth puzzle is also there to address an unlikely tie ,apart from being there to be solved.Now, given that a tie is anyway at very high odds, i have a (better?) suggestion(thats too late for this week though),that i think fits well into this theme.If a tie occurs,calculate the most popular ( based on most solved & least time taken)puzzle,create an easier ( or harder) one of that type and start a tie-breaker) with that single puzzle (remember this would not have to be done anyway!,so no harm conceptualizing).

I get a question from a player
Please click on "Start puzzle" to get the password.

Score Page - Link to score page http://logicmastersindia.com/M201201P/score.asp

Note that the score page will display partial scores, it will display only the puzzles you have solved.

When i start a puzzle then I am not able to end it and start another puzle.
I am struck becoz the other puzzles show cannot be started.
plz hlp

Please check your answer to the puzzle you started. It is wrong. You have to wait either a) till submit it correctly or b) for an hour (whichever is minimum) before you can start the next puzzle.

Ok
Actually I did not want to solve this one but started it becoz it was the first one.
Anyways will have to wait for an hour

In that case, you can start the next puzzle now. Just refresh the submission page.

Some players are getting close to finishing all 8, it looks like we should have had posted all puzzles :-)

I tried hard to understand what the puzzles column (with such values as "1/1/1") means? I know it could be listing all the submission attempts ,but i am not sure as that is still a conflict in my case. I submitted only one puzzle and it shows three values! Damn i wasted lot of time on the pentomino grid.

I think it is: BONUS/CORRECT/SUBMITTED

I hadn't planned on doing all 8 in a row. I had planned to do 2 or 3. But I was going pretty well. Every time I finished I thought "Okay, one more" till I had done them all.

Greedy! ;)

Well I can understand that greed. If I sped through them at that rate even I'd want another one each time :P

It really feel good to complete one Marathon puzzle for the first time... :)

Keep it up mate. 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3 and so on ;)

I'm having an interesting experience. Decided to start with the ones marked easy, took too long on l-t-l, broke the small regions and ran out of time on my second go and I'm the fastest in tapa for now. Not bad on b&w either. Wonderful puzzles so far :) Thanks everyone for the fun!

Curious question. I've been a lurker here doing puzzles after the fact and decided to register to try these ones during the contest. However, I have clicked to start a puzzle that I have no knowledge of and want to cancel and go to a different puzzle (namely the Braille Word Search, I accidentally started the Star Battle puzzle instead not knowing the mouseclick in that spot would start it). There seems to be no way to cancel; I either submit the correct solution or the timer is eternal. Does it end after a period of time has passed? Can the puzzle be cancelled (I won't be solving it, and looking at it now can't even place the first star)?

EDIT: Reading above this post, I see I must wait an hour. I had already tried what I knew would be a wrong submission hoping it would mark the puzzle "complete" but - obviously - it didn't. Is there any way to not have this submission count as a penalty since this puzzle was started by accident? Or are penalties only for individual puzzles - i.e. you lose 10 out of the 250 points, for example, for each wrong solution submitted for that puzzle only?

Cyclone


Edited by Cyclone 2012-01-22 5:09 AM