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Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test
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Gotroch
Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-10 4:14 PM (#1150 - in reply to #1149) (#1150) Top




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debmohanty - 2010-08-10 3:39 PM
If you don't transfer the digits from CR1 to CR2, you will find multiple solutions to CR2.


Thanks, this is all I need to know.
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Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM (#1153 - in reply to #1064) (#1153) Top


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Announcement - About Sudoku#17
Grid for Sudoku#17 uploaded Click here to download

Minfang Lin
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-10 8:05 PM (#1154 - in reply to #1150) (#1154) Top




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You can determine digits' position by logic, don't worry about this.
It's the first time we do this kind of relay, so they're easy to determine, eg: {1234} from previous puzzle, and in next puzzle the mark cell already have {123} in its peer cells, so this cell must be 4.
but, no all like this :) if you make the wrong place, you will find no solution for the puzzle, or if you haven't decide all marked cells, you will find multiple solution.
rakesh_rai
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-12 11:19 AM (#1158 - in reply to #1064) (#1158) Top



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I went through the IB version 2 but could not find the points distribution. When is the points distribution expected to be announced?
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Subject: Re: Qixi - Points Table @ 2010-08-12 3:29 PM (#1159 - in reply to #1158) (#1159) Top


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Minfang Lin
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-12 7:50 PM (#1160 - in reply to #1159) (#1160) Top




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Another notice for players: Please make a table for variants part before the test, or print the one in extra page.
Minfang Lin
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-13 6:10 PM (#1163 - in reply to #1064) (#1163) Top




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Announcement:
PB is available now!

Chinese version of IB http://www.sudokufans.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=97
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Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 1:11 AM (#1164 - in reply to #1064) (#1164) Top


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!!! Best of luck to everyone !!!
Fred76
Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 8:36 PM (#1167 - in reply to #1064) (#1167) Top



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Hard !!!
purifire
Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 9:15 PM (#1168 - in reply to #1167) (#1168) Top



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Fred76 - 2010-08-14 8:36 PM

Hard !!!


Oops Fred.... now you are scaring me
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Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 9:24 PM (#1169 - in reply to #1167) (#1169) Top


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Tough set.
The puzzles were really nice, especially since I like Match-Makers puzzles.
I liked the concept of transfering digits without knowing directly which one goes where, it makes the relay concept more complete :-)

Looking forward to results and feedback of others.
debmohanty
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 9:28 PM (#1170 - in reply to #1169) (#1170) Top



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Rohan, thanks for your comments. Hopefully that will un-scare Rishi.
Minfang Lin
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 9:35 PM (#1171 - in reply to #1064) (#1171) Top




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Thanks for feedback.
To Fred: i think you can do better.
I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-)
Fred76
Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 9:49 PM (#1172 - in reply to #1064) (#1172) Top



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Hard..... but beautiful !

And yes I think I could do better, I've done mistakes !

Fred
purifire
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 10:04 PM (#1173 - in reply to #1170) (#1173) Top



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debmohanty - 2010-08-14 9:28 PM

Rohan, thanks for your comments. Hopefully that will un-scare Rishi.


Im bad at matchmakers and I dont think anything Rohan said unscares me

You are forgetting that now I am a part time Sudokist... I am not even sure I will be able to take 2 hrs away at a stretch
neerajmehrotra
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-14 10:37 PM (#1174 - in reply to #1173) (#1174) Top




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It can never be worse. First did a mistake in Puzzle No 7 and then carried forward the digits to spoil Puzzle No. 8.
In short screwed...........
alien2357
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 12:41 AM (#1176 - in reply to #1064) (#1176) Top




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Great set of puzzles. Awfully difficult.
I'm glad I was able to participate this time around. Can't always have 2 hours straight to do puzzles, but when I do, it's always FUN!
Everyone at LogicMastersIndia should be commended. Your mock tests and other puzzle sets are typically high quality stuff. Thanks!

-Allen
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Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 1:28 AM (#1177 - in reply to #1064) (#1177) Top




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Wow, very nice puzzles. Didn't finish in time but afterwards I have let them meet ;)
Gotroch
Subject: RE: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 6:24 AM (#1178 - in reply to #1064) (#1178) Top




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Really nice puzzles.
Matchmaker part was beautiful.
rakesh_rai
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 7:28 AM (#1179 - in reply to #1178) (#1179) Top



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Overall a nice set of sudokus. The objective was to make Niulang and Zhinv meet, however, both got lost somewhere. The matchmaking logic was beautiful, and unfolded very logically.

amitsowani
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 10:37 AM (#1180 - in reply to #1179) (#1180) Top



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The small point classics were really beautiful and I had never enjoyed solving classic puzzles so much before.
I struggled on the higher point ones, maybe there is something that Im missing in solving the more difficult ones.

Matchmaker was awesome. It was not too difficult to identify which sudoku goes where. The puzzles were high quality too, especially the anti knight sudoku.
I broke the touchy sudoku, else would have had a few more points :(

It might have been better if there were more time to solve, or maybe two separate sections, so that people do not have to choose between which section to solve.



purifire
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 4:02 PM (#1181 - in reply to #1180) (#1181) Top



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Amazing set of puzzles.... thoroughly enjoyed them.... Im not sure how amit and Rohan found match makers easy :D

I wasted nearly 20 mins trying to resolve them... :)

Had a great time solving them nevertheless...
Fred76
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 4:24 PM (#1182 - in reply to #1171) (#1182) Top



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I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-)


Although my performance was below my abilities, I would not have been able to make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. I'll be surprised if more than 2 people can achieve this goal.

P.S.: I like surprises
purifire
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 4:32 PM (#1183 - in reply to #1182) (#1183) Top



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Fred76 - 2010-08-15 4:24 PM


I hope someone could make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. :-)


Although my performance was below my abilities, I would not have been able to make Niulang and Zhinv meeting. I'll be surprised if more than 2 people can achieve this goal.

P.S.: I like surprises


I agree with you Fred.
skywalker
Subject: Re: Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day - Special Sudoku Test @ 2010-08-15 4:45 PM (#1184 - in reply to #1183) (#1184) Top


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I had no problem to identify puzzles in matchmaker (7-8 minutes for all eight), but some of them were really hard to solve and I lost a lot of time on them. Classics were as always from Chinese authors, beautiful & tough.
I enjoyed after the test solving puzzles not solved during the test.
Thanks for great puzzles

Branko
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