When you say ignore the turkish letter, do you mean "ÇÖZÜM" becomes "ZM" or "COZUM" or something else?Any information on how many words will be used will be given,or is it part of the solve?

Edited by anurag 2012-08-17 6:10 PM

I mean that "ÇÖZÜM" should be "COZUM" when you submit.

Here is a nurikabe loop : http://anuragthefirst.blogspot.in/2012/08/clean-cruise.html

I was looking at the example for signage in IB. Can anyone share a couple of starting steps? Except the clues on the edge, where arrows obviously cannot go towards the edge, I am unable to make much of a logical headway.

Since the count starts including the clue arrow itself, the 2 clues have to reach some edge within 1 arrow. e.g. The 2 clue pointing downwards at R6C4 means R7C4 will have to be an arrow pointing leftward because it has to point directly toward an edge and there's an arrow on the right. This means you can cross out all the cells to the left, and there'll be an arrow on each cell on the right.

Thanks.
I realize my problem now. My printout was not showing any arrows. The shading of the arrows did not come out at all.

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That problem didn't occur for me, during the test(I didn't take printout of the IB).

Anyways, great puzzles. I don't really like word puzzles/letter entry puzzles much, so a part of this test wasn't in my comfort zone, but I liked every puzzle I did solve. A power cut in between made certain I didn't even attempt some types I felt uncomfortable with :P So will have to try them out later.

Thanks for the test Serkan.

Edited by prasanna16391 2012-08-18 12:06 PM

Do I get extra points for accidentally solving the Spiral Battleships example in test time? I only noticed this when I went to enter the entry key and noticed it was the same as the example's entry key.

Only if I get extra points for solving 3 of the puzzles with the sole illumination provided by the laptop screen... I'm gonna solve under candlelight from next time. :|

Nice puzzles Serkan!

This time I solved almost all of the puzzle I had pre-selected.

Thanks a lot for a fun set with pretty innovative stuff!

I personally thought some puzzles were under/over valued.
The two hours went so fast for me I didn't get to see some pages.
A great Serkan test as always. Thank you!

A puzzle test after such a long time, but performance was not that par which i expected.
Puzzles were excellent and yes i dont like word puzzles and never gave a look to it in the test :p
Anyways Thanks Serkan!! for such a wonderful test.

Thanks Serkan for excellent puzzles and a very enjoyable test.

Like Swaroop, I also gave the word puzzles a miss. Probably we should have an exclusive test at some point for word puzzles.

I never believe this. Because it only depends on solver ability. Some solvers can be good at math puzzles, some of them can be good at word puzzles etc. So from my side there is not any under/over valued things in tests. And I don't mean any extreme examples. For example, for this test three solvers tested all puzzles. Honestly there were some huge differences for some puzzles. So when I determine the puzzle points with considering tester times, I always use average solving times, and sometimes I interfere in this average value. But in any case I follow average solving times.

That seems to be a common theme among the Indian participants. If you refer to my post above, the "uncomfortable" part did indeed refer to word puzzles(well, letter-entry puzzles too, but we know that weakness from the IPC don't we?). I'd definitely have given 2-3 of them a try if I had a little more time after finishing the ones I actually did solve though.


Edited by prasanna16391 2012-08-20 1:03 AM

Thanks for the very excellent test Serkan; almost a perfect USPC preview (if I just had 2.5 hours to finish and check everything!).

I'm glad I had almost all of the back issues (7 of 9?) to practice on these puzzle types before starting. Even those who do not win the prize should consider getting AO regularly.

hi..

just wanted to know the exact time duration of the test, and whether it is available for online solving or do we have to take a printout?

IB Sudoku Builder seems to have a solution typo. Arrows ask for R4,C5. But the given solution is for R2,R4.

When both rows and columns have solution arrows, it appears the row arrows should precede the column arrows. Is that right?

Yes. That is a typo in the IB.

That is correct. But we do manual checks for each wrong submission and you will get points if the answer keys are swapped.

120 minutes. Not available for online solving, you'll have to take a printout.

Nice puzzles, thanks! Good variety, creative, challenging (for me).

Password removed from puzzle booklet.

Solution booklet uploaded here. It also has the list of authors who wrote the corresponding puzzles for akil oyunlari magazine.

Congrats to the top 3 : Motris, Deu and Mellowmelon
Puzzles were nice. As i said earlier i am weak at Word puzzles so have to look upon it now. I liked calculations most among which i have submitted others i have to still try.
Spiral Battleships second i solved twice and was stuck in middle at the end with 18,19 and 20 and now looking at the solution it seems i missed that way.The RH factor one i solved completely
i submitted the right solution and then dont know what happened saw the second row AB as -ve one although i had written +ve over there and submitted the wrong solution just 2 seconds before my time got over.
So i guess it could have been better but at the end nice test..
Thanks to serkan and LMI for this test :)