Sequence of Sudokus/Puzzles in tests | |
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utkaarsh |
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Posts: 89 Location: India | In the test pdf, is it preferable to have sudokus/puzzles ordered by level of difficulty (points), does it make a considerable difference or is it good to have but not necesary option for solvers, please let us know your views | ||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | Good question Utkarash. I know you had posted about this earlier too. Lets see what others think. | ||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | Oh, by the way, I've my own set of problems regarding why my sets are never sequenced with respect to difficulty / points. | ||
utkaarsh |
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Posts: 89 Location: India | Fair, if this adds up to trouble to authors, then we as solvers can do it maunally at our end, only if each page would have just one sudoku/puzzle, , which is in most cases but not every ( correct me if i am wrong ) | ||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | My statement was bit hazy in the sense I didn't explain my problem. When I send the IB and PB to test-solvers, I always don't know the points distribution, although I've a fair idea of the difficulties. After the test-solvers finish testing, I start points distribution, but at this point I don't want to make wholesale changes to the pdf. I just feel that the pdf has been tested properly, and more changes means more source of errors. I just add points for each puzzle, and lock the pdf. I don't think that is the case with all authors. So if many players think that "sequencing the puzzles in order of difficulty" is suitable to solving, we can put a request to all authors to follow that. But I'm not sure if we can make it a rule. [ Moving this to polls section, since this thread will get lost once the test starts ] Edited by debmohanty 2011-12-16 4:28 PM | ||
Richard |
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WCPN Author Posts: 191 Location: The Netherlands | For the January sudoku test I have written, I used categories to define the sequence of the puzzles, and also sizes. I don't think it would have been easy to put the puzzles in an increasing-points-order, other than putting just one puzzle per page. But it crossed my mind to do so. Maybe for future tests I will keep it in mind. In my case the points distribution I had in mind before it was tested was different than the average of all testers showed. But I am not such a quick solver anyway. Regards, Richard | ||
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