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Location: India | Best of Luck to Everyone.
I hope you Enjoy the Test.
Stay Safe. Stay Healthy. |
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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? | Trio Cut | | | 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 | |
Great contest! The puzzles were really nice, and well balanced across the various types! |
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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? | Transparent Yajilin | | | 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 | |
Too hard to choose favourite puzzles. All of them were fantastic and a great PR set.
This will go down as one of the best across years.
Thanks a lot Swaroop! |
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Location: United Kingdom | | 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? | Border Nurikabe | | | 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: United Kingdom | When you have people finishing the test in 27 minutes, it's probably too easy! Despite this, I thought the puzzles were very nice and fun to solve, so overall an excellent test. |
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| | 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? | Fairly Nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Ripple 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: India | Thanks for an easy-raised-to-the-power-of-2 test. The puzzle quality was very decent. I thought the 7-pointer Trio cut and 12-pointeer Nurikabe were overrated though. On the other hand, I struggled 25 minutes to break the tricky loop closure in the centre-left center in the 10-pointer RL!
Edited by anurag 2020-03-20 10:24 PM
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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? | Myopia | | | 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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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? | Ripple 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 | |
Lovely puzzle set, although I found it quite hard. That, however, is probably because I am weak at some of these shading variants, but I enjoyed it!
Thanks, Swaroop!
And thanks for dedicating some of the puzzles to Shaheer :) wonderful gesture... |
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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? | Very nice | | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Myopia | | | 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? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Very hard for me as usual but i am just an average solver. Most were fun enough without the timer, except the ripple loop puzzles. I found even the 2 pointer to be impossible. I solved it several times and even downloaded the instructions/examples again during the test and do not understand where i am wrong. My solution is 320212 |
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Location: India | ghirsch - 2020-03-20 9:53 AM
Great contest! The puzzles were really nice, and well balanced across the various types!
Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed. |
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Location: India | vopani - 2020-03-20 11:28 AM
Too hard to choose favourite puzzles. All of them were fantastic and a great PR set.
This will go down as one of the best across years.
Thanks a lot Swaroop!
Thanks a lot, Rohan. |
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Location: India | Puzzle_Maestro - 2020-03-20 8:17 PM
When you have people finishing the test in 27 minutes, it's probably too easy! Despite this, I thought the puzzles were very nice and fun to solve, so overall an excellent test.
Thank you. The aim is to encourage more newcomers and so the difficulty was set towards easier with some challenging stuff for top solvers. I am glad you had fun. |
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Location: India | anurag - 2020-03-20 10:24 PM
Thanks for an easy-raised-to-the-power-of-2 test. The puzzle quality was very decent. I thought the 7-pointer Trio cut and 12-pointeer Nurikabe were overrated though. On the other hand, I struggled 25 minutes to break the tricky loop closure in the centre-left center in the 10-pointer RL!
Thank you for the feedback. Sometimes the points can be varying based on the experience, as some of them find shading and loop puzzles easy while some find it hard, so there might be some minor variation in the Points to Difficulty experience. But I hope overall it was as close to its possible. Ripple Loop indeed was challenging. |
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Location: India | priyambhushan - 2020-03-21 2:50 AM
Lovely puzzle set, although I found it quite hard. That, however, is probably because I am weak at some of these shading variants, but I enjoyed it!
Thanks, Swaroop!
And thanks for dedicating some of the puzzles to Shaheer :) wonderful gesture...
Thanks Priyam. I am confident you will master it soon. |
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Location: India | bob - 2020-03-21 3:18 AM
Very hard for me as usual but i am just an average solver. Most were fun enough without the timer, except the ripple loop puzzles. I found even the 2 pointer to be impossible. I solved it several times and even downloaded the instructions/examples again during the test and do not understand where i am wrong. My solution is 320212
Thank's for your feedback. We would be happy to assist you if you need help in solving certain puzzles. You can post here, where you are stuck, and we can guide you through the next steps.
I can only inform you that, all puzzles are logically approachable.
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Location: United States | This is the first set that I was able to complete in time while live.
So I'm excited about that, even if the test seems to have been on the easier side.
I definitely needed to reread the instructions a couple of times in order to find the solutions, especially for Ripple Loop. But overall I'm pleased with my result. Hooray! |
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Location: Finland | | 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? | Myopia | | | 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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Location: United States | Let a = corner with loop arms going down and to the right, b = down and to the left, c = up and to the left, d = up and to the right, - = horizontal, l = vertical, . = empty.
My solution row by row is ..a--b, a-cabl, l..lll, la-cll, ll.acl, dc.d-c
This this leads to the code 320212 which is incorrect. I presume I misinterpreted the rules somewhere but I've never had so much difficulty with a 2-point puzzle.
Thanks for your time and for especially for providing something interesting to do during these crazy times. Please be careful. -bob |
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Location: India | Timjamiller - 2020-03-21 7:17 AM
This is the first set that I was able to complete in time while live.
So I'm excited about that, even if the test seems to have been on the easier side.
I definitely needed to reread the instructions a couple of times in order to find the solutions, especially for Ripple Loop. But overall I'm pleased with my result. Hooray!
Well Done. Indeed that was the intention, for many people to complete the test. I am glad you enjoyed an are happy. |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | bob - 2020-03-21 6:58 PM
Let a = corner with loop arms going down and to the right, b = down and to the left, c = up and to the left, d = up and to the right, - = horizontal, l = vertical, . = empty.
My solution row by row is ..a--b, a-cabl, l..lll, la-cll, ll.acl, dc.d-c
This this leads to the code 320212 which is incorrect. I presume I misinterpreted the rules somewhere but I've never had so much difficulty with a 2-point puzzle.
Thanks for your time and for especially for providing something interesting to do during these crazy times. Please be careful. -bob
May I know, which 2 point puzzle you are mentioning here? There are many puzzles. (Myopia, RL, Transparent Yajilin?) |
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Location: United States | Hey Bob. One misinterpretation you're having is that you're allowing empty spaces to occur. The puzzle instructions say that the loop must visit every cell.
The rule I was having trouble with was the horizontal/vertical adjacency stuff...mostly because I overlooked that in my first readthrough. I was originally thinking that it was path adjacent (like ghirsh) and not cell-adjacent. |
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Location: United Kingdom | The instructions say 'Draw a closed loop that connects the centres of ALL cells horizontally or vertically', so your solution is wrong, namely because there are empty cells. Details like these are very important! |
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