Thanks for this wonderful test, Sylvain !

Grids are very well constructed, it's fun to solve them !

Fred

Wonderful set of sudokus. Thanks for the test Sylvain.

I have a question for you: Which sudoku did you create first? (My guess would be Anti Knight)

That would be the obvious guess I think, considering thats the one you can't play with outside/extra clues in.

Thanks for a nice set Sylvain!
I spent a lot of time on a puzzle I was completely stuck in, unfortunately, and while finishing another one I miswrote myself. In one of the diagonals, so that cost me a lot of points.
I am looking forward to solving the other ones later.

Thanks Fred, Rohan and Richard

The grid I cloned was obviously the antiknight. I wanted to start from a classic look-alike grid.

Fun puzzles, thanks!

Some lucky players will get an extra second when the leap second is added :)

Edited by PuzzleScott 2012-07-01 2:30 PM

Very nice set indeed, thanks Sylvain. It was interesting and quite disturbing to play with the same set of givens on all the puzzles. After having screwed up one, it is quite hard to realize that the next puzzle you will try will look the same. Really interesting sensation, and I felt it multiple times since I screwed up a lot of puzzles.

Some pretty logical paths made for a really good test. Now eagerly waiting for Richard's one !

I was deeply impressed that each grid looked same but had different taste of solving.
Thanks a lot, Sylvain!

Thanks Scott, Bastien and Yuhei. I'll just say for now that it was a very interesting challenge to create the grids from the same set of figures.

Beautiful puzzles. Wish I could've done better.

Very nice puzzles indeed. It was fun to participate again after a long time. Thanks Sylvain.

I think LMI should thank you for participating.

Really nice set. I've still not got out of my slump, but thoroughly enjoyed the ones I managed to solve right.
Thanks Sylvain.

Thanks Tawan, Gauravkorde and Prasanna.
We must also thank Deb and LMI team for their outstanding work.

Merci sylvain, pour les très belle grilles.

I always worry with "stunt" tests that the puzzles will suffer from the extra constraint. In this case, there was no need to worry. You made a large number of very creative and challenging puzzles. Merci beaucoup!

Really beautiful puzzles and an amazing success with a very challenging way of constructing the grids. Wow. A lot of fun solving!

Nice puzzles with lots of variation. At first I thought the puzzles were only in a PDF file, and after wasting some time trying to figure out if I could work it in paint, I realized that all I had to do was scroll down and solve them on the browser.

That was awesome! None of the puzzles felt constrained, and all were very fun to solve (Different was especially beautiful).

SudoClones is now over. There have been some really impressive performances at the top. janoslaw and Kota finished with 90 seconds difference. WaterlooMathie, playing after quite a while at LMI, takes the 3rd position. 4 other players (jaku111, motris, Gotroch, uvo) finished all grids before time.

The grids have been highly praised throughout. The concept was nice, but Sylvain executed it perfectly. Thanks so much Sylvain, and also thanks for administering the test the whole weekend.

The last few submissions have not been checked for manual overrides, so there might be few (really few) changes after top 7.

Among Indians, Rohan, Gaurav and Rakesh take the top 3 positions. Out of 227 players, 171 players solved at least one sudoku correctly. Thank you everyone for participating.

The minimum rated puzzle was Frame Sudoku at 7.81, which itself is a high number. In fact, it is the highest among all 'minimum rated puzzles' across sudoku/puzzle tests.






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I liked most puzzles. My favourite was the different, even though I didn't solve it in competition.
I somewhat disliked the Diagonals Entry Key structure though. I like to have the safety check that each row/column of the answer key has the given set of digits in Sudoku Tests. I think it reduces typos.

I think number of typos (and correspondingly number of claims) were much less this time compared to other tests.

I didn't understand this. Are you suggesting any change to the submission system?

Nah, I guess what he meant is, when the answer key is Row/Column, you kinda know digits can't repeat, so thats as good as a little safety check in itself. Suppose a digit repeats in the key you know you're wrong and you can go back to it. In diagonals, digits can repeat.

Ah, well. My question really sounds dumb now.