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Location: New Zealand | prasanna16391 - 2015-12-29 12:10 PM
Interesting. If my printer had issues I'd just do this on MS Paint. In fact, I was debating with myself about solving this round on paint because I actually thought I'd be faster, but then I thought solving on paper will help me more with offline competitions and went with that. Still, I personally think Snake is a puzzle which can be done with the fill option on paint. The only variant from the contest for which I'd say its better on paper is Summed Snake. Our notations while solving the puzzle probably differ though.
I did the first couple of classics in Paint while I waited for the printer to print (which is why I had a wrong submission, I didn't colour in the first tail cell specifically and thought it was empty when entering the answer key...!)
But I think all of Horse, Toroidal and Summed benefit from extra notation (Toroidal especially, I like to replicate the cells on the far sides of the grid to better visualize what the snake is doing) so decided that paper solving was best. |
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Location: India | kiwijam - 2015-12-30 3:55 AM
prasanna16391 - 2015-12-29 12:10 PM
Interesting. If my printer had issues I'd just do this on MS Paint. In fact, I was debating with myself about solving this round on paint because I actually thought I'd be faster, but then I thought solving on paper will help me more with offline competitions and went with that. Still, I personally think Snake is a puzzle which can be done with the fill option on paint. The only variant from the contest for which I'd say its better on paper is Summed Snake. Our notations while solving the puzzle probably differ though.
I did the first couple of classics in Paint while I waited for the printer to print (which is why I had a wrong submission, I didn't colour in the first tail cell specifically and thought it was empty when entering the answer key...! )
But I think all of Horse, Toroidal and Summed benefit from extra notation (Toroidal especially, I like to replicate the cells on the far sides of the grid to better visualize what the snake is doing ) so decided that paper solving was best.
Ah, I forgot about Toroidal. I'm generally just good with those without replicating the cells, and it was the same here. |
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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? | Average | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Horse Snake | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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| | 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 | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Summed Snake | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: India | Leaderboard updated - http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2015-16-ranks.asp |
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Location: India | Hotel - 2015-12-29 5:01 PM
In this test, I think toroidal snake is most difficult. In particular I couldn't find even the first step of two puzzles on page 6. Anyone knows how to start?
Steps for Toroidal 12X12
(Logic and images from Prasanna)
| Step 1 : The 8 and 9 clues for row4&5 takes up 17 cells. Whatever way it goes since it cant form a loop around the grid, 2 cells space will remain empty. So you have 11 columns to fit in 17 snake cells. In every 2 columns, you can have maximum 3 snake cells. So 10 columns can have max 15. One extra column will have both snake cells. So it is a complete zig zag configuration. |  | Step 2 : Since it forms a zig zag path, there will be only one exit from row4/5. And it has to be towards row 3 because the 1 clue of row 3 can not be satisfied otherwise. |  | Step 3 : The snake can not go up from R4C3, because of the 3 clue in that column. So you can complete the Zig Zag configuration.
In column 1, 7 of the remaining 8 cells are to be snake parts. So exactly one will not be snake part. If both R1C1 and R2C1 are snake parts, the 4 of row2 can not be satisfied. [ There are 2 cases if both the cells are snake cells. These 2 cases are shown in 2 different images ] |  | |  | | Step 4 : So now row 7 to row 12 of column 1 are snake parts. |  | Step 5 : Some standard book-keeping stuff. |  | | Step 6 |  | Step 7 |  | | Step 8 |  | Step 9 |  |
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Location: India | Solutions appended to puzzle booklet. |
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Location: India | Congrats to EKBM, Uvo and Deu for top 3 places. congrats to Prasanna, Amit and Swaroop for top 3 India. Thanx to all 173 participants.
Thanks to deb for giving me the opportunity to conduct the contest. the contest was on a tough side. Toroidal seemed to be the toughest in this contest. there were 22 participants who submitted all the 22 puzzles correctly :)
hoped u all enjoyed the contest. Thanks |
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Location: India | Steps for Snake - 1
1. The snake has not go up from R7C5, otherwise the 6 clue of row 6 can not be satisfied.
2. At R6C5, the snake has to turn right.
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Location: India | Steps for Snake - 2
If the snake passes through R3C1, that end will meet R2C3. No further snake parts are possible in the right side region, so the 3s of R2/3/4 can not be satisfied.
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Location: India | Steps for Snake - 3
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Location: India | Steps for Snake - 4
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