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Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April
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swaroop2011
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 10:39 AM (#14994 - in reply to #14944) (#14994) Top



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 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? Too many medium difficult puzzles
 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? Just right
 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


forcolin
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 1:57 PM (#14995 - in reply to #14944) (#14995) Top





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A fairly good contest for me. As Aaron says the linked consecutive was a bit vicious and I had to force through the solution and costed me some time.
IMHO The Hamle was the best one, very logically constructed.
kishy72
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 2:11 PM (#14996 - in reply to #14944) (#14996) Top


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 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? Too many hard puzzles
 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? Just right
 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


That was a feast of sudokus!Last night I was thinking how it would be like to complete all sudokus except the 2 155 pointers and end up with 800 points.I remember number 8 as being the last thing on my mind before I dozed off....
So the first thing I did during the test was keeping the 2 bigger pointers seperately away from the rest and solve the remaining.As I see, this had worked to my advantage.Not sure if I would have touched even 500 if I had got a bit 'greedy' and attacked any of the higher valued ones.
Keep my story aside and the test itself was incredible and fascinating!
Of the ones I completed ,the stand-outs that I liked very much were Palindrome Search sudoku,Arrow sequences Sudoku and Consecutive sudoku in that order.Looking to complete the Hamle and Quad Max later.
Incredible test Prasanna with lovely solve paths in all !Keep up the good work.Oh! should I say this to the Prasanna from the Parallel Universe too?! :-p
TiiT
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 3:58 PM (#14997 - in reply to #14944) (#14997) Top




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 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? Just right
 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


Yuhei Kusui
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 5:10 PM (#14998 - in reply to #14944) (#14998) Top




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 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? Just right
 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


daisuke_t
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 5:25 PM (#14999 - in reply to #14944) (#14999) Top


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 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? Just right
 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


forcolin
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 5:39 PM (#15000 - in reply to #14944) (#15000) Top





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 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 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


An LMI player
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 6:29 PM (#15001 - in reply to #14944) (#15001) Top


 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? Too many hard puzzles
 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 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


An LMI player
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 7:36 PM (#15002 - in reply to #14944) (#15002) Top


 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 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


achan1058
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 9:10 PM (#15003 - in reply to #14995) (#15003) Top




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forcolin - 2014-04-19 2:57 AM

A fairly good contest for me. As Aaron says the linked consecutive was a bit vicious and I had to force through the solution and costed me some time.
IMHO The Hamle was the best one, very logically constructed.
I wish I did the Hamle. Tried it after the contest was over and it took 1/2 the time as the quad max, for the same amount of points.
tamz29
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 10:24 PM (#15007 - in reply to #14944) (#15007) Top




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In the IB, the Hamle Sudoku had two given 4s overlapping each other. Is this possible?
greenhorn
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-19 10:46 PM (#15008 - in reply to #15007) (#15008) Top


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tamz29 - 2014-04-19 10:24 PM

In the IB, the Hamle Sudoku had two given 4s overlapping each other. Is this possible?


I have not seen the IB puzzle, but it is said that "numbers must all land on unique spots." I solved the contest puzzle with this rule.
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 12:00 AM (#15009 - in reply to #15007) (#15009) Top


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tamz29 - 2014-04-19 10:24 PM

In the IB, the Hamle Sudoku had two given 4s overlapping each other. Is this possible?


As I see the IB, I believe you've interpreted that numbers must move by a distance of 1 cell, whereas the rules say the movement will be the distance of the number's value. The two 4s in the IB move to R1C1 and R6C6.
auroux
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 4:17 AM (#15013 - in reply to #14944) (#15013) Top


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Very nice set. But as already pointed out above, the Hamle was (for me at least) easier than the Quad Max and in fact no harder than the Linked Consecutive.
Still not sure if starting with the big ones was a reasonable strategy, but at least I had a lot of fun with those harder puzzles.

Thanks Prasanna (from both universes)!
achan1058
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 10:29 AM (#15014 - in reply to #14944) (#15014) Top




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The scoreboard is showing up completely blank for me. It was working fine yesterday.
skywalker
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 12:56 PM (#15015 - in reply to #14944) (#15015) Top


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 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? Just right
 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


forcolin
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 2:26 PM (#15016 - in reply to #15014) (#15016) Top





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achan1058 - 2014-04-20 10:29 AM

The scoreboard is showing up completely blank for me. It was working fine yesterday.


happens to me too.

Aaron, Hamle is a type of puzzle relatively uncommon. Not surprisingly, puzzle players like you and me find it easier than those who are mainly sudoku players. Hence (i guess) the relatively high score

stefano
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 2:34 PM (#15017 - in reply to #15016) (#15017) Top


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forcolin - 2014-04-20 2:26 PM



Aaron, Hamle is a type of puzzle relatively uncommon. Not surprisingly, puzzle players like you and me find it easier than those who are mainly sudoku players. Hence (i guess) the relatively high score

stefano


Yup, this was exactly the reason I placed a high value to it. The logic of "movements" and using the second grid will be new to many. I just compared it to where something like a Tapa being valued higher than something like a Domino Hunt will still make me always go for the Tapa first and mostly finish it faster, the puzzle solvers would find this one over valued but thats part of individual strengths/weaknesses. I just went by tester timings which basically happened to invert (one had the Quad Max being much harder and the other had the Hamle being much harder) and my own feeling and placed the same value to both.
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 2:35 PM (#15018 - in reply to #15016) (#15018) Top


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forcolin - 2014-04-20 2:26 PM

achan1058 - 2014-04-20 10:29 AM

The scoreboard is showing up completely blank for me. It was working fine yesterday.


happens to me too.



Should be fixed now.
Gotroch
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 4:09 PM (#15019 - in reply to #14944) (#15019) Top




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 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 few puzzles
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Many puzzles were worth too much or too little


tamz29
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 5:49 PM (#15020 - in reply to #15009) (#15020) Top




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prasanna16391 - 2014-04-20 12:00 AM

tamz29 - 2014-04-19 10:24 PM

In the IB, the Hamle Sudoku had two given 4s overlapping each other. Is this possible?


As I see the IB, I believe you've interpreted that numbers must move by a distance of 1 cell, whereas the rules say the movement will be the distance of the number's value. The two 4s in the IB move to R1C1 and R6C6.


Thanks Prasanna and Matus,
Sorry, had a mind blank.
An LMI player
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-20 8:51 PM (#15022 - in reply to #14944) (#15022) Top


 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? Too many hard puzzles
 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 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


An LMI player
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-21 1:15 AM (#15025 - in reply to #14944) (#15025) Top


 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? Too many medium difficult puzzles
 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? Way too many puzzles (too little time)
 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


krytterka
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-21 3:23 AM (#15026 - in reply to #14944) (#15026) Top




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 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? Too many medium difficult puzzles
 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 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


greenhorn
Subject: Re: Parallel Universe — April Sudoku Test — 19th-21st April @ 2014-04-21 4:23 AM (#15027 - in reply to #14944) (#15027) Top


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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? Very nice
 How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? Way too few puzzles (too much time)
 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


I enjoyed the puzzles, but most were not worth their awarded points. I had a feeling that they have the same difficulty. I do not know why, but the three most expensive sudokus (Quad max, Linked Cons and Hamle) were the easiest for me (besides the classics). On the other hand, I had many problems with both Arrows and Trio Sudoku. Also broke Palindrome Search few times, but it was just because of my stupidity, not the difficulty of that puzzle. Anyway, nice test, looking forward to the puzzle PU II.

Edited by greenhorn 2014-04-21 4:33 AM
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