Terrific puzzles to start this year's TVC. Thanks Serkan!

Thanks, Serkan. I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to TVC X, too.
By the way, I can't see the result page ever since I completed. Does this page have any problem...?

Well for what its worth, I can see the results page just fine, so I guess the page isn't a problem.

I see. But, other Japanese participants say the same thing as me. Why is this situation occurred? I don't know...

I can see from database log that no one from Japan has accessed the score page.
Do you get any particular error or any message?

Is it possible to send the screenshot to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com ?

Bit strange problem. I see that yukkuri from japan and motris, TableSaw, nehsb have seen the score page.

Please send me screenshot of what you see.

EDIT : The problem is resolved now. It was related to IE, not Japan.

Hey, Am not able to see the result page as well. I tried IE and Mozilla both..

Ok, I tried again, if someone is facing the same problem. It might help to re-login and try again. Worked for me!

Thanks for the puzzles, that was fun. And I finally managed to click claim bonus and actually get some.

Edited by Para 2012-02-11 10:51 PM

Nice puzzles, Thank you.
I should have practiced before taking the test, anyway it went better than I thought, I managed to do both my Equal Tapa ;)

Regards,
Ravi

Nice puzzles, thanks. When I look at results after claiming, I see an empty results page (Firefox 10.0).

I could see results after the timer expired, but not when I finished the contest (by Claiming).

Bit of misunderstanding there, I guess. You can finish contest by Claiming only after you submit all puzzles.

I'd never really considered is as I never claimed bonus succesfully. Is there a special reason bonus is computed on the full minute and penalty on the second? Both are mentioned per minute in the scoring.

Yes, both of them are better for competitors.

In reading the rules/scoring, it appeared that bonus/penalty points were a strategic tradeoff in deciding when to Claim. After looking at Results and discussion, it appears that Bonus only applies if all puzzles are completed correctly.

If you read the FAQ for the monthly puzzle contests (argh, HTML is not my friend today; it's thread ID 382 on this site), it says that claim bonus is only for when all of the puzzles are solved correctly. While this technically wasn't a monthly puzzle test, it would certainly seem likely that the same rules apply.

This is especially true when you realize that clicking start and then immediately clicking claim bonus would net 600 points, which is a good percentage of all of the puzzle values (and come in ahead of the majority of the competitors).

edit to remove bogus link to wrong thread...


Edited by affpuzz 2012-02-13 6:11 AM

Re: Trimono, maybe I'm just being dense, but it seems that with no triminoes given, it is illegal to place any walls...

Oh no! It looks like that is a mistake. the L trimino was supposed to be put with the puzzle (the L trimino has been put with all tapa triminos so far)

First contest of TVC 2012 is over. The puzzles were easy, just like last year's first contest. As many as 23 players finished all 16 puzzles, although only 11 of them got all 16 correct.

motris takes the top spot with huge amount of bonus. The scores are really close after that with Para and deu next 2 spots.

It is bit unfortunate for MellowMelon who lost the the top spot (and many bonus points) because of a mistake. (Not sure if it was solving error or a typo)

Thank you everyone for participating.

It was a solving error. The black square on R7C2 got moved to R9C4 because I couldn't count to 5 properly. Took me ages to notice that after the test was over, even after being told there was something wrong.

Zach - I've only seen the one in the IB. The directions had made me think that there might be both types on the real test...

As always, thanks to everyone involved.

First round of TVC 2012 has ended, thanks to all participants. The top three are as follows:

1. Thomas Snyder (USA)
2. Bram de Laat (NED)
3. Hideaki Jo (JPN)

Thomas showed similar performance as the last year's first round, with finishing way earlier. Congratulations!

Some statistics:

- 11 competitors managed to submit all puzzles correctly. Former world champion Palmer was the fastest competitor, but he made a small mistake that cost him huge points. Palmer and Thomas managed to finish all puzzles under 50 minutes.
- The puzzle solved by least competitors was Battle Tapa. It was solved by 35 competitors.
- The puzzle solved by most competitors was Tapa Restoration - Top. It was solved by 130 competitors.
- The puzzle with the highest rating was Tapa Line - Bottom (9.3) and the puzzle with the lowest rating was Digital Tapa (6,86).
- The puzzle submitted with the highest accuracy was Tapa Restoration - Top (%98.48, 130/132 competitors), lowest was Battle Tapa (%81.39, 35/43 competitors)

See you next round!

Serkan

Haha, I'm one of those 2 competitors :D And it was the only one I submitted wrong!

Digital Tapa was funny. I guess the reason its not got a high rating is once you got the pattern you could basically solve it within seconds just by following that and seeing it works out for the entire grid. I enjoyed it though

Thanks for the puzzles Serkan.