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Location: United States | I believe the Tripod puzzle in instructions booklet has multiple solutions.
I got the same region outlines and filled the 6 rows as follows: 132546/524631/346125/465312/251463/613254 |
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Location: India | Points Table
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Location: ITALY | The tripod sudoku in the competition will have a single solution anyway.
Edited by Gabrieleud 2013-06-25 4:50 PM
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Location: Czech Republic | Let me invite you to practice on Italian WPF Sudoku Grand Prix!
This week we are preparing for you these sudoku variants in our Daily League:
24.06.2013 - Jigsaw Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
25.06.2013 - Killer Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
26.06.2013 - Coast to Coast sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
27.06.2013 - The Big Bang Theory Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
28.06.2013 - 1011 Sudoku (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
29.06.2013 - Kropki (practice on WPF GP — Italian Round)
30.06.2013 - Diagonal Sudoku
http://sudokucup.com/content/sudoku-variants |
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Location: Estonia | Does it have any reason, why it starts so late? usually it starts earlier.
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Location: France | Hi,
I just noticed what seems to be a small mistake in the answer form: the tripod is announced to be using digits from 1 to 8 but the expected answer seems to be 9 digits long. |
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Location: India | Ours brun - 2013-06-29 2:21 AM
Hi,
I just noticed what seems to be a small mistake in the answer form: the tripod is announced to be using digits from 1 to 8 but the expected answer seems to be 9 digits long. Fixed.
TiiT - 2013-06-29 12:18 AM
Does it have any reason, why it starts so late? usually it starts earlier.
Tiit I just realized that I made a mistake. Alberto wanted to start the contest at 12:00 AM Italian time. I assumed he wanted to start at 12:00 PM.
So the contest starts now. (2 hours earlier than LMI usually starts.). There won't be any change in ending time. |
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Location: India | Online Solving not available for Tight Fit and Tripod sudoku
Link for online solving : http://logicmastersindia.com/2013/06S2/?online=1
As noted earlier contests, the flash online solving will only allow you to mark / unmark 1-9 on the grids. There is no feature to mark anything else.
Based on previous LMI tests, we think most serious players will solve on paper and not use the online solving interface. However, if you are one of those who plan to use online solving, you must practice first solving the examples using the online interface.
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Location: India | Bonus PointsBonus 4 points per minute (computed upto seconds) will be awarded to all players who submit all 24 sudokus correctly, with maximum 1 wrong submission. In case of wrong submission, the sudoku shouldn't be wrong by more than 4 digits.
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Location: Estonia | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
The tripod had much more worth than the rest. At least for me. Too much guessing and trying to fit the borders and that takes some time if you are just sudoku solver. |
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An LMI Player with Sudoku ratings 500- | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Way too many puzzles (too little time) | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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: Slovakia | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit easy | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Thanks for a nice contest.
I really liked most of the puzzles and appreciate that there were many totally different types.
But the point distribution was not so good. I have solved the puzzle nr. 24 (55 pts) six times due stupid mistakes, but it takes me still less than BBT sudoku (20 pts) or Coast to Coast (35 pts). Probably Three is a Crowd was the easiest variant of the whole contest. |
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Location: Iran | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | All puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: Turkey | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: The Netherlands | Thanks a lot for a nice contest, although the puzzles were a bit too easy for my taste. I especially liked the design of the 1011 Sudoku, nicely done! |
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Location: Czech Republic | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: Germany | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Most puzzles were worth the right amount | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: Switzerland | TiiT - 2013-06-29 2:01 PM
The tripod had much more worth than the rest. At least for me. Too much guessing and trying to fit the borders and that takes some time if you are just sudoku solver.
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests... 
Can someone tell me how to start the solving of this one???
Otherwise, thanks for the nice test.
Fred
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Location: France | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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: Slovakia | Fred76 - 2013-06-30 12:53 AM
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests...
Fred
Why? I was just thinking about brand new Tripod sudoku tournament right here  |
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Location: Switzerland | greenhorn - 2013-06-30 1:12 AM
Fred76 - 2013-06-30 12:53 AM
2 tripods in 2 weeks... 0 points... lot of time lost... please stop with this shit variant in sudoku tests...
Fred
Why? I was just thinking about brand new Tripod sudoku tournament right here
without me... |
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Location: South Korea | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | 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 | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | 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 | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did their point values reflect the difficulty/time spent? | Many puzzles were worth too much or too little | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I would be interested to hear others' opinions on the points distribution on this test. I'm a pretty consistent competitor but certainly not fast enough to have a chance to get through more than about half of the puzzles on most tests within the time limit, so my gameplan is usually to use the points value of puzzles as a guide to decide which ones to try. Most of the time the points offered are pretty accurate - more points will generally mean a puzzle that takes me more time to complete, as it should be. But with this test I really felt like the points were often backwards. I spent a LONG time tackling several of the earlier puzzles that were 20 points or less, only to find after time was up that MANY of the puzzles worth a lot of points were FAR easier - including the 55 pointer which had no logical roadblocks along the solve at all! I know that comments like that are subjective, so I'd like to hear what other solvers' experiences were. Thanks to the constructors for the puzzles, though, they were fun... I was just a little disappointed this time with the points layout. |
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