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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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Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author
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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? | Transparent Yajilin | | 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 nice puzzles! These were all well written. I like Transparent Yajilin a lot and hope it shows up more often.
Favorites:
2 Nurikabe 11 Border Nurikabe 14 Yajilin 16 Ripple Loop 22 Transparent Yajilin |
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Location: South Korea | 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? | Ripple 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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Location: Hungary | 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? | Fairly 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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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | WA1729 - 2020-03-22 12:40 AM
Very nice puzzles! These were all well written. I like Transparent Yajilin a lot and hope it shows up more often.
Favorites:
2 Nurikabe 11 Border Nurikabe 14 Yajilin 16 Ripple Loop 22 Transparent Yajilin
Thank you. I liked it too, a very interesting set of deductions can be possible in this variant. Hopefully, I will create more puzzles of this type in future. |
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Location: Germany | 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 | | 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: 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? | 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 | |
These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition. |
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Location: The Netherlands | I really enjoyed the puzzles, though I think I don't get the windows rules completely. Can someone explain why this solution to puzzle 5 isn't valid? (x = shaded, _ is white)
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Houk13:
In your solution, many given shaded cells are showing as unshaded. (Example R2C7). Did you solve the same puzzle?
Otherwise, it seems a valid windows solution. |
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Location: The Netherlands | Thanks, I do seem to have made some mistakes copying the puzzle, that explains a lot |
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Location: United States | Timjamiller - 2020-03-21 9:21 AM
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.
Thanks for finding my mistake. Even when re-reading my eyes gloss right over the little word "all" since I am assuming it is a Masyu variation (which it is not). This makes the larger puzzles possible; thanks again. bob |
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Typed Logic Author
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Location: Indonesia | 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? | 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 | |
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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 | | 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
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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? | 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? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Great puzzles with a good balance of difficulty.
I had a smooth run until I hit Windows (7) and Border Nurikabe (12).These 2 ate up a sizeable chunk of my time.In the end, I was just extremely lucky to submit the 12 pointer at exactly the last second !!
Thanks Swaroop for a nice puzzle set.Favourites are Nurikabe and Myopia. |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | TiiT - 2020-03-22 5:11 PM
These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition.
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | kishy72 - 2020-03-22 7:10 PM
Great puzzles with a good balance of difficulty.
I had a smooth run until I hit Windows (7) and Border Nurikabe (12).These 2 ate up a sizeable chunk of my time.In the end, I was just extremely lucky to submit the 12 pointer at exactly the last second !!
Thanks Swaroop for a nice puzzle set.Favourites are Nurikabe and Myopia.
Thank you. Made it just in time. Well done. |
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| 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? | 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? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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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? | 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 | |
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Location: Austria | 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? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: Thailand | Nice test, Swaroop.
This goes to show that not all easy puzzles are boring.
A lovely introduction to these types where a lot of existing puzzles written could be impossibly difficuly for newer solvers.
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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? | Trio Cut | | 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 | |
Thanks a lot Swaroop for a near perfect test Favourites were Ripple Loop set and Trio cut set Had a lot of time for the Windows but couldnt get them which was quite disappointing Enjoyed! |
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author
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Location: Germany | Thanks Swaroop, this felt like a perfect PR round to me. Easy puzzles (but, honestly, not *that* easy to solve rigorously, so very much appropriate for a contest targetted towards less experienced solvers. Thanks a lot!
I feel lucky for the instant grading, since my one mistake was a real mistake (I'd let some transparent yajilin clues unused by the loop) and not just an input error.
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