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Location: United States | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
There were some fun variations here that I hadn't seen before. I especially liked the 2-3 and 2-3-4 sudokus and the X-sums. |
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SM 2020 (Math) Author
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
I felt that this test had harder classics and were under-valued compared to the Variants.This probably got accentuated by the fact that I just didn't solve the classics in the way they were meant to be solved.
I was doing the variants really well and suddenly I thought that I had completed all of the variants when actually I had completed only 4 of the 5 variant types . As a result,crossed over to the classics wherein I suffered a lot even at the 'hands' of a 2 pointer.In hindsight,I should have solved the 2-3-4 rather than persisting with the classics a lot.Got to submit a few classics in the dying moments and salvage some points.This test comes in the category of the hard sets like Evergreen(PR) and Maths(SM)
My favourites of the test are X-sums followed by skyscrapers.Really clean solve paths.Variants were really lovely and I enjoyed solving them a lot.Thanks for authoring the set Rishi.
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| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | representation could have been better | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
nice outside variants, some new to me. A standard outside (1-2-3 outside for 9x9) would also have been highly desirable. |
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WSPC Organizer
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
Had a few stumbles, but enjoyed the set. Loved the 2-3-4 Outside 9x9
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Diagonal Vision Author
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Location: Switzerland | Nice test !
Thanks Rishi ! |
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Location: Thailand | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I think some classic puzzles in this test are harder than others test. Otherwise, enjoy the outside clues variants, thanks. |
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | |
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Location: Hong Kong | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Location: United Kingdom | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
A good solid test - I couldn't quite get the last puzzle out in time sadly. |
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| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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SM 2020 (Math) Author
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Location: India | Strange.We have no contender finishing in the 90-100 range (so far).The Forbidden gap eh?!
100.6 and then a straight 12 points down directly to 88.6.Now, what are the odds of that happening ?! |
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Location: Poland | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many hard puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Location: Romania | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
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Location: India | Leaderboard updated. |
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Location: India | Password removed and solutions (to variants) appended. |
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | |
I feel the Classic Sudokus are tougher than the variants, which unfortunately I spent a long time. Overall nicely constructed sudokus and a great challenge for all. |
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| How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Average | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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Location: India | How well did the variants represent the theme of the test ? | variations represented the theme well | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | |
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Location: India | Can somebody pl explain as to how to start with next to 6 and next to 9 Sudoku |
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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer
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Location: India | One thing to remember is that since all the digits outside are given, the rows/columns with only one outside clue must have the 6/9 in the first or last cell. This is usually the best place to start. |
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Odd Even & Twisted Classics (SM 16/17) Author
Posts: 460
Location: India | Sorry for the delayed post.
Congrats to Rohan, Rakesh and Kishore for being the top 3 Indians and to Gotroch, Kota and and Kwaka for the top international players. It was really awesome to see such a close finish between the first two spots. Prasanna is excluded from the official ranking as he has a bye.
I really enjoyed creating this set.
There is some feedback that sudokus were hard. Many of you voted for 'too many hard puzzles'. While it is understandable but I need to add here that Tiit, who test solved it, completed the set in 43 minutes. Based on that it was decided that we would not make it any more easier.
Most of you voted for 'very nice puzzle quality' -- Appreciate the feedback.
The first and the last points of the feedback were unanimous mostly, so thank you for that.
Finally, I'm glad most of you enjoyed the puzzles. Nice to see 317 participants with 105 Indians.
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