Questions related to Round 7 : Shoorpanakha should be posted here.

A general question for this round:
Do we have to mark the two sub-regions with some indicator (like a color or shading) to score full points OR is solving(without marking) the two conjoined puzzles correctly just fine?

7.5 Country Road - bottom right region is marked with a 2 but the loop visits 4 cells

It is not necessary to mark the sub-regions. Full points will be awarded if the individual puzzles have correct solutions as part of the the overall solution.

We will update the example in the next iteration.

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R7.3 Double Statue Park
Will the bank be separated?

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Two sets of the bank will be provided and it will be clearly separated, like in the IB.

R7.3 Double Statue Park

I think the instructions should include a comment that each puzzle has a separate bank.
When compared to R7.1 Double Crossword, which has a combined bank.

Good point. We had similar tester feedback, but we only tried to address this by putting a gap between the two banks. We will include in the wordings in the next version of the IB.

The text at the top of this round says there will be eight puzzles. I assume that's supposed to be seven? Maybe there were 8 in a draft version?

Sorry for the incorrect count, there are 7 puzzles in this round.