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Location: Germany | I tried to make an easier Araf: http://maybepuzzles.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/puzzle-10-araf/ It does get tricky towards the end, but hopefully it should be easy to start. |
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Location: India | devarajand - 2014-02-19 8:01 PM
Thanks for practice puzzles. But I am unable attempt Araf. Any basics to solve it.
I don't know about particular tricks except that
1) if two consecutive numbers are adjacent - then draw a bar between them
2) Two numbers connected should at least have difference of two
These are pretty much from Rules of ARAF.
Others things you can check out is as the size of region has to be between those two numbers, so see if any closed or forced regions are formed, which makes size of region not falling between the two.
I don't know whether i explained clearly, but if you start an puzzle and got stuck then put that here, so we can help out to direct that puzzle. And then may be you can figure out some tricks on your own.
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Toketa? Selection Author
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Location: Japan | I made an Araf practice. It's bit hard at the end, but I think this practice will be helpful to solve Marathon puzzle last year.
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 araf-practice.png (5KB - 5 downloads)
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Location: India | Based on useful feedback from chaotic_iak, puzzle image for Turning Fence is made paint-friendly (i.e. flood fill can be used to draw lines). Paper solvers shouldn't see any difference after printing.
Please note, this is just an informative post, and is not indented to encourage you to solve on paint.
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Location: India | Submission page now has puzzle details
Submission page now has details about each puzzle (size / relative difficulty / author ).
The puzzles are sorted based on relative difficulty (i.e. easiest puzzle at top & most difficult puzzle at the bottom ). Puzzles of similar difficulty are sorted by familiarity. As it happens in many cases, difficulty is a matter of perception and preference. So your experience may differ.
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Location: India | Test starts 6 hours earlier than plannedBecause of administrative constraints, Puzzle Marathon starts 6 hours earlier than planned. Test end time does not change.
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Location: The Netherlands | Here's a little nudge to the layout of my puzzle.
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Hex Slitherlink Author
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Location: France | Ungh. Emboldened by the announced "Easy" difficulty level of the KakurOH, I expected to make quick work of it and started 30 minutes before I actually had to leave. Stupidest idea ever. Oh well. |
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Location: India | Congratulations to Gotroch for solving all 10 (as first player and also all at one stretch) |
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Location: United States | In Scrabble is there a possible 2nd solution? My 2544494613 is rejected but it looks right, to me. Horiz words from top to bottom : 2 -kruglov, winter,meng; 4-evensen; 5-tikhonova;6-haug;9-nagano,heiden;10-skeleton;11-vedenin;13-oslo,oreiller;14-ulvang;16-enke;18-klassen;19-gustafsson.
Thank You.
Maybe I'm counting wrong. |
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Location: India | razapor - 2014-02-21 11:40 AM
In Scrabble .... Are you counting the number of letters or number words?
We expect number of letters.
if you are counting number of letters, and still getting wrong mark, can I ask you to send your solution (a photo) to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com ?
Edited by debmohanty 2014-02-21 11:47 AM
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Location: India | FoxFireX - 2013-03-03 5:02 AM
... Is there a way to abandon a solve that you just don't think you'll ever complete? I couldn't find a way to move on and try a different one, so I was stuck using my entire day's time banging my head against a faulty bit of logic.
Like previous years, there is time limit this year too. Once you start a puzzle X, you can't start another puzzle Y until you submit X or one hour is over, whichever is earlier. So 2 (and more) puzzles can be started together. But you have to wait for 1 hour or submit the first puzzle correctly.
It was not clear last year that you actually have to reload the submission page. We have added a "Refresh Status" button for this purpose. |
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Toketa? Selection Author
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Location: Japan | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Heyawake | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Scrabble | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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Location: Czech Republic | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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Toketa? Selection Author
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Location: Japan | I could do better in mini coral, statue park, yajirin and nunro.
My 4th favorite was Araf.
Thank you all for excellent puzzles!
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Location: United States | Darn, I repeated vedenin. |
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Location: India | Yajilin Answer KeyFor Yajilin, in the IB only columns are marked, but the actual puzzle has both rows and columns marked.
Please take a note.
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Location: India | auroux - 2014-02-21 8:53 AM
Ungh. Emboldened by the announced "Easy" difficulty level of the KakurOH, I expected to make quick work of it and started 30 minutes before I actually had to leave. Stupidest idea ever. Oh well. It could have been easily 10/10/10 for you. |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | Can someone explain rules of mini coral, especially importance of numbers i didn't understood.
Edited by swaroop2011 2014-02-22 6:14 AM
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Location: India | swaroop2011 - 2014-02-22 6:14 AM
Can someone explain rules of mini coral, especially importance of numbers i didn't understood.
1. The clues indicate the number of cells connected in the white region.
2. Don't start the puzzle if you just understood the rules.
3. See LMD link for practice puzzles. Solve couple of them first. |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | ok thanks
i was thinking as number of white cells seen and was counting each quarter for it, so was not matching.
Anyways now understood, thanks.
Yeah i will practice and then give :) |
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Location: Canada | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mini Coral | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
The printing on the mini coral sucked. The middle lines were so light that my printer isn't printing them at all on draft mode, which never happened before on any of the contests I have done previously.
How did you guys get started on the Heyawake? I ended up doing quite a bit of trial and error before finding a contradiction that I could work with. As usual, I am completely lost on the scrabble. Any tips on how to do that kind of puzzle is welcome. |
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Location: India | achan1058 - 2014-02-22 10:19 AM
The printing on the mini coral sucked. The middle lines were so light that my printer isn't printing them at all on draft mode, which never happened before on any of the contests I have done previously. The lines dividing the cells into quarters were meant only for flood-fill. But now that you mentioned, it is not a bad idea to have them little darker.
Had you printed the practice puzzles from LMD? |
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Location: Canada | Seeing that the puzzles on LMD do not have the middle lines to begin with, I failed to see the point. |
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