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Posts: 7
Location: Poland | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Shaded Cave-Kurotto Mastermind | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | 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 | |
I have also been confused by the right-to-left arrows with the left-to-right key.
Nevertheless, these puzzles really gave me some kind of flow. Good job! |
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Location: France | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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 | |
Very enjoyable test, I really liked the way the connected logic was weaved into the puzzles.
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Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author
Posts: 64
Location: United States | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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 | |
Thank you!
Favorite puzzles:
3-4 Twopa 11-12 Maxi Loop |
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PR 2020 (MII and Regions) Author
Posts: 48
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Perfect answer keys | | 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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Posts: 136
Location: India | Dear Admin,
Twopa: I believe behaving differently is only limited to the fact that cells that are shaded may partially differ for the same clue between two grids. OR, do I also need to consider the shape of the shaded block?? As I see in the example, the shapes are identical! that's why I am a little unsure.
Also, just curious,
Ep 1 was PR201901.
'PR2019012' follows the same nomenclature? Or was it supposed to be PR201902?
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Location: India | anurag - 2019-01-27 2:16 PM
Twopa: I believe behaving differently is only limited to the fact that cells that are shaded may partially differ for the same clue between two grids. OR, do I also need to consider the shape of the shaded block?? As I see in the example, the shapes are identical! that's why I am a little unsure.
Cells that are shaded should partially differ. If you compare all eight cells surrounding a clue, at least one cell should differ in the shading between the two grids. Shape(s) may or may not be the same.
Also, just curious,
Ep 1 was PR201901.
'PR2019012' follows the same nomenclature? Or was it supposed to be PR201902?
You should have been able to figure this out. Nomenclature is PR2019XX where X denotes the month in which the test starts. If there are 2 PR tests in a month, the second test has a 2 appended.
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Posts: 139
Location: Estonia | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Skyscrapers-Easy as 123 | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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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Posts: 49
Location: France | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Shaded Cave-Kurotto Mastermind | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Perfect answer keys | | 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 | |
Despite not being able to finish due to issues with my printer (small downside of being on holiday), I really enjoyed this test !
The "connected" logic was nicely used, at the right level for PR imho (thas is, it was necessary to finish all grids of a group, but used only a few times so that the flow of classic solving isn't broken).
Looking forward to see this category again next year :) |
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Posts: 2
Location: Romania | TWOPA 1 i send in the last seconds, and i arrieve 4 points.
Total 35 points minus penalties
Please chek
Best regards
Prezensky Istvan (Romania) |
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Posts: 136
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Fillomino-Star Battle Relay | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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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PR 2020 (Evergreens) Author
Posts: 36
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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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| 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Skyscrapers-Easy as 123 | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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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Posts: 152
Location: United Kingdom | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too few pages / too small grids | |
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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer
Posts: 164
Location: Slovakia | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many easy puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Fillomino-Norinori Relay | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Perfect answer keys | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too few pages / too small grids | |
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Posts: 59
Location: United States | 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 | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Too complicated and frustrating for a timed test. Spent half my time on Maxi Loop 11 and 12 (which was favorite type out of the ones I tried) and checked and rechecked and rechecked and rechecked my answers. I either don't understand the rules or I don't understand the solution codes. Unsatisfying to say the least. Even after more time I still don't know what's wrong. I might be ready for a new hobby. |
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Location: India | prezensky: Your solution was received 16 seconds after time was over. We have similar cases with many other participants too. And there are still other participants who do not submit once time is over, even if they finished just in time. So, to be fair to everyone, this submisson (1-Twopa) will not be awarded points. |
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Location: India | Kind attention for Solvers
Please read the Instruction Booklet. Page 2 clearly mentions "Answer keys must always be entered from left to right and top to bottom"
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PR 2020 (Casual and Word) Author
Posts: 349
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | 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? | I have a different complaint | |
Overall the test went very smoothly. But I got tripped on the "slighly" different rul of Twopa and wasted 15 mins on the first one and had to come back and solve it later.
Answer Keys were mostly perfect but the arrows pointing from the right/ bottom were confusing and I was not sure whether to enter left to right or right to left.
The size of the instructions impacted the puzzle grid size in a few cases. One possibility could have been to ask participants to refer to the instruction booklet |
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Posts: 11
Location: United States | Hello! First-time participant here!
How do we fill out those questionnaires for feedback on the puzzles? I can't seem to find any links to them. |
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SM 2020 (Converse and Odd Even) Author
Posts: 85
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Perfect answer keys | | 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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SM 2020 (Math) Author
Posts: 417
Location: India | 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? | Linked Skyscrapers-Easy as 123 | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I felt the contest was on the harder side.Being a new round in PR, I would have preferred somewhat easier puzzles.I did my first submission at 26 mins having started with the first puzzle of the contest (Twopa) which went nowhere no matter what I did and had to drop and move on.Point distribution was certainly off for that puzzle and for Fillomino & Star Battle as well wherein I spent a considerable time. Regarding the Twopa, my opinion is that the added shaded cell made the solve much more complex as now you have to determine which pattern fits exactly where.I would have preferred a loose start wherein you can shade some cells and shade the opposite in the other and then figure out. I enjoyed solving Sky/Easy as ABC and Maxi loop puzzles (which were accurate in depicting the difficulty level by means of points). Overall an okay contest where I couldn't enjoy puzzles much because of the difficulty(was depressing at the start itself). |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
Posts: 668
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly perfect answer keys | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Nice concept and excellent Puzzles. As others have already mentioned, answer keys pointing right to left were confusing. The difficulty was definitely on higher side compared to previous tests. The first twopa and also star battle one were definitely worth more points. I indeed ended up making mistake in Twopa and needed 1 extra minute to finish all puzzles. Nonetheless very fun contest. Thanks Prasanna and LMI. |
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Location: ITALY | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Twopa | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too few pages / too small grids | |
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Location: New Zealand | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Linked Maxi Loop | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | 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 | |
Puzzles were great! I also had issues with the answer key arrows pointing the wrong way.
Also in the Twopas, this new shaded cell approach is a problem for answer entering. We have to guess early anyway, and solve on both grids like a normal Twopa, ignoring the shaded cell until we work out which grid it is part of. In my case my solutions ended up on the wrong side, and then I got confused (needed 5 submissions, my own fault). At least you could have made A and C the same row? |
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Location: India | randomperson1729 - 2019-01-28 9:32 PM
Hello! First-time participant here!
How do we fill out those questionnaires for feedback on the puzzles? I can't seem to find any links to them.
There will be a link from the score page. |
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