The Instruction Booklet version 1 is now published.

In the rules of the Minesweeper puzzle, it is said that a question mark may represent any non-zero number; yet, in the given solution, one question mark represents 0. Will a 0 be allowed in the competition?

You're right. 0 is allowed. I'll be uploading an IB now with 2 rule changes (to Minesweeper and Polyominoes [Minesweeper]) and I'll highlight the changed parts in red.

Points distribution, number of PB pages and size breakdown for the Minesweeper section are yet to come but I pushed this out quickly so that the rules are clear.

The 3rd version of the IB is uploaded and has all the leftover details noted above. I've still kept the rule changes in red so that people notice them, but they won't be red in the PB.

Password Protected Puzzle Booklet is uploaded. All the best to everyone! Remember to go to the appropriate link for online solving if you want to do that.

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Thank you!

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Thank+you!

Short update: We will be posting the final results of the PR online rounds tomorrow. We will also send a mail tomorrow about the venue and dates of the Indian Championships and the process to sign-up, etc. We have already sent the same to the SM participants where there is a lot of overlap, but the rest of you can watch out for the email. We will post another update here when the mail is sent.

https://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2022-Ranks.asp The final PR standings (Indian)
https://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2022-ranks.asp?all=1 The final PR standings (Overall)

We had 491 participants with non-zero scores in this year's Puzzle Ramayan. We also saw a new author, Chandrachud Nanduri join the fold, and authors like Nityant and Madhav build on last year's debut years.
The International chart was topped by Freddie Hand, followed by Jeffrey Bardon and Ken Endo.
In the Indian standings, Rohan Rao, Ashish Kumar and Swaroop Guggilam go into the finals with the top 3 scores.
Congratulations to the winners!

We will be mailing the top Indians about the ISPC finals within 24 hours, thank you all for participating!

Thanks Priyam and Chandrachud !

Gave the set offline.This is my favourite round of PR this year ! Very high quality puzzles. Can't really remember when I had fun solving puzzles as much as I did when I solved Polyominoes Minesweepers.

Favourites are Polyominoes Minesweeper (both) and Consecutive Quads (10)