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@ 2010-03-07 5:17 PM (#169 - in reply to #168) (#169) Top

gauravkorde



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gauravkorde posted @ 2010-03-07 5:17 PM

You did pretty well :)
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Anyways, have patience.. the complete results will be out later tonight.
@ 2010-03-07 5:19 PM (#170 - in reply to #69) (#170) Top

jcvb



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jcvb posted @ 2010-03-07 5:19 PM

Thanks a lot!
@ 2010-03-07 5:29 PM (#171 - in reply to #170) (#171) Top

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debmohanty posted @ 2010-03-07 5:29 PM

Results will be out at 8:05PM as usual.
@ 2010-03-07 7:13 PM (#173 - in reply to #69) (#173) Top

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vopani posted @ 2010-03-07 7:13 PM

Very nice puzzles Gaurav... I liked Circles and Descriptive Pairs the best...
I kept making a stupid mistake in Equation Sudoku due to which I lost 5-6mins :|

Waiting for the results...
@ 2010-03-07 7:28 PM (#174 - in reply to #69) (#174) Top

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vopani posted @ 2010-03-07 7:28 PM

I found Extra Region more difficult than Descriptive Pairs and Circles...
@ 2010-03-07 9:06 PM (#175 - in reply to #69) (#175) Top

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Tejal Phatak posted @ 2010-03-07 9:06 PM

Very nice puzzles!
I personally liked Circles, Diagonal Consecutive, Blackout (because this was the 1st time I got it correct! :D)...

Made a silly mistake in Descriptive Pairs, else ciuld have have submitted it in time :(
@ 2010-03-07 9:08 PM (#176 - in reply to #69) (#176) Top

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Tejal Phatak posted @ 2010-03-07 9:08 PM

The test was timed also very well... I guess appointing a tester actually helps! :)
@ 2010-03-07 10:55 PM (#177 - in reply to #176) (#177) Top

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gauravkorde posted @ 2010-03-07 10:55 PM

Actually the puzzles were quite difficult earlier and our target was that 10-15 people should finish the test. So I added hints in 5 puzzles.. and now we found that it wasnt that easy either... But many could finish 8.

Anyways I am glad you all enjoyed the puzzles. :)

Also an awesome round by Janoslaw. 18 min before time was really great
@ 2010-03-08 2:31 AM (#178 - in reply to #177) (#178) Top

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amitsowani posted @ 2010-03-08 2:31 AM

Being the tester couldnt participate :(
But I got a first hand look at the puzzles which were a little more tougher then the final cut.

Gaurav reduced the difficulty of the puzzles for the Skyscraper, Circles and Arrow Path.
Overall the test had a good mix of puzzles with difficulty ranging from quite easy (Mirror Sudoku) to the diabolic Skyscraper.

I didnt find the arrow path sudoku interesting, it gets solved one box at a time and required more of scanning then anything else.

The circles puzzle was awesome. I couldnt get a start into the puzzle, during the first round of testing. The entry point was quite difficult to spot, so Gaurav added a second equally difficult entry point to the puzzle, hoping that solvers will spot at least one of these to solve the puzzle.

This was the first time I was solving a Blackout puzzle which was not created by Deb, was relieved to know that easy puzzles can also be created for this type :)

Good to see Sumit back in the fray :)

I will be creating puzzle for the next mock along with my room-mate Kshitij. Watch out for the Mock 16, as we have some interesting variations in store for you !!

@ 2010-03-08 12:26 PM (#185 - in reply to #178) (#185) Top

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purifire posted @ 2010-03-08 12:26 PM

Amazing Puzzles... blackout was comparatively easy when we compare to the ones created by Gaurav in the past... descriptive pairs was damn interesting.... the skyscraper ate my head!!! :D intersting mock overall... Thanks Gaurav...
@ 2010-03-08 4:19 PM (#187 - in reply to #69) (#187) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2010-03-08 4:19 PM

Nice set of puzzles Gaurav. Wrong Skyscrapers was really great !

I also expected more players to complete the whole set, seeing that I lost much time (about 20 minutes) doing some puzzles twice (including the Skyscrapers Sudoku) but did all of them anyway (with a stupid mistake on the last cell of Blackout Sudoku...).

I suppose the fact that most puzzles were "rare" or new variants can explain it. I personnally love solving puzzles that I had never seen before. :bleh:
@ 2010-03-08 4:24 PM (#188 - in reply to #69) (#188) Top

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yangzhou posted @ 2010-03-08 4:24 PM

1] Mirror Sudoku:
R(m)C(n) = R(9-m)C(9-n) for all 4 corner boxes. In short box 1&9 and box 3&7 will have digits so that they form mirror image. (eg: R3C2 & R6C7 will have same digits)

is it "9" or "10" ? R(m)C(n)=R(10-m)C(10-n)

2] Repeatable Extra Region:
There are two extra regions of 9 cells each but digits can repeat in those regions. Both the regions contains same set of numbers, same number of times.
eg: If one region contains 1,1,2,3,4,4,5,7,9 then the other region will also contain same numbers 1,1,2,3,4,4,5,7,9

all numbers should be in the same order, right?
@ 2010-03-08 4:35 PM (#189 - in reply to #188) (#189) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2010-03-08 4:35 PM

1] It is "10". Gaurav had already corrected it, but not in his first post.

2] Not necessarily in the same order. Both regions just need to contain the same set of numbers.

Edited by Ours brun 2010-03-08 4:39 PM
@ 2010-05-24 10:04 AM (#621 - in reply to #69) (#621) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2010-05-24 10:04 AM

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