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Enjoyed the puzzles. Spent too much time on the harder ones and disappointed with not completing the set. But this was a top-notch set of puzzles, with some wonderful solving paths. debmohanty - 2015-09-28 8:42 PM The third Kropki was inspired after a discussion with my friend Rohan, who said "I find Kropki one of those 'who is fastest at trial and error' type of puzzles. I never try to find an opening, very time consuming." I hope he finds this puzzle otherwise. Well, I still guessed :-) But beautiful Kropki. | ||||||||||||||||||
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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer Posts: 1784 Location: India | shirshakg2016 - 2015-09-29 1:24 AM Hi , I am new here. How do we solve the magic snail puzzles? Can you point to a particular puzzle? Someone will give the steps for that one so you can understand it better in general. | ||||||||||||||||||
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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer Posts: 1784 Location: India | amitsowani - 2015-09-29 11:37 AM I also missed out on the repeated alphabets thing in the fourth magic snail. I solved for ABC instead of ABBC. Reading the IB more carefully would have definitely helped ;) I missed this too and had to re-solve, among numerous other things I missed (I even got stuck for a good while on two of the Skyscrapers!). In fact, I was really expecting Rohan/you to beat me on this one. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location: India | Congratulations to Hideaki, Endo & Michael for topping the international chart, and to Prasanna, Amit & Rohan for topping the Indian chart. It has been voted correctly that the set had too many medium difficulty puzzles, and I agree with that. Few easier ones would have made it more accessible. Here is the result of voting for puzzle types : Kakuro > Easy As ABC > Magic Snail > Kropki > Skyscrapers (I'm not at all surprised to see the Skyscrapers at the bottom). Thank you everyone for participating. We have one month break now, we will resume with Sudoku Mahabharat after WSC/WPC. New players : If there is any specific Puzzle in which you got stuck, feel free to post here and we will guide you through. (Please be specific about a puzzle. Answering questions like how to solve a puzzle type is difficult. But if you ask about a particular puzzle, we will be quick to respond) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location: India | Solutions appended to puzzle booklet. | ||||||||||||||||||
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PR 2020 (Casual and Word) Author Posts: 349 Location: India | prasanna16391 - 2015-09-29 12:56 PM amitsowani - 2015-09-29 11:37 AM I also missed out on the repeated alphabets thing in the fourth magic snail. I solved for ABC instead of ABBC. Reading the IB more carefully would have definitely helped ;) I missed this too and had to re-solve, among numerous other things I missed (I even got stuck for a good while on two of the Skyscrapers!). In fact, I was really expecting Rohan/you to beat me on this one. Potentially one way to avoid this issue is to have a different word with repeating alphabets instead of "ABBC", like "LOOP" in the IB. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location: India | amitsowani - 2015-09-30 9:40 AM Potentially one way to avoid this issue is to have a different word with repeating alphabets instead of "ABBC", like "LOOP" in the IB. Possibly yes. But I was under the impression that having a random set of letters is not necessarily good. Everyone is more familiar with ABC. (I couldn't have used LOOP because the O's were confusing with circles). It never occurred to me that players will start solving it as ABC (didn't we have 2 Bs given in one of the columns?). I had my doubts on Easy As ABC - 1, but not on this one. | ||||||||||||||||||
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WSPC Organizer Posts: 739 Location: India | I'm unable to sort the results in ascending order of any column after clicking on 'Show All Results' :-( | ||||||||||||||||||
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