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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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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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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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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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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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Location: India | Sorry I was probably not clear.
I just meant if you had printed and solved them. You would have faced the same problem while doing those practice puzzles.
Anyway, I guess the bottom line is, it wouldn't have been harmful to have them little darker. |
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Location: Croatia | I can not correct my solution. I got it wrong on the first try of sudoku, corrected it, written in the solution second time, and when I press submit it is not accepting my new solution, but keeps counting the time. no matter found my mistake
Edited by Zrile13 2014-02-22 6:36 PM
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Location: Turkey | | 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. | 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? | Fair | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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Location: Germany | One or two minutes ago I wasn't able to either commit my solution or enter the forums for 2-3 minutes :(. Fortunately furiously pushing the refresh button solved the problem... :D |
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Location: India | I could not understand the Yajilin answer key format. Some thing wrong in IB |
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Location: India | devarajand - 2014-02-23 8:42 AM
I could not understand the Yajilin answer key format. Some thing wrong in IB
See image below. Is it clear?
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Location: India | Thanks. Answer submitted. |
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Location: India | i love that mini corral awesome :) Few days back i even didn,t know that type and now its one of my favourite :) |
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Location: India | Can someone explain the Mini Coral example in the IB. It has two 7s and how the number of cells are calculated. |
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Location: India | rvarun - 2014-02-23 2:39 PM
Can someone explain the Mini Coral example in the IB. It has two 7s and how the number of cells are calculated.
White areas can contain multiple numbers. There is no restrictions on that.
The clues represent the numbers of connected white areas. (For 7 here, I have made them in yellow. You will notice that 7 cells are connected)
Remember that each white area has to be connected to the edge of the diagram.
If it is still not clear, please post here.
As I suggested to Swaroop, please solve one or two examples on the LMD site before trying the marathon.
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Location: India | Thanks Deb. Actually i thought cells as the smaller ones. But I later understood that cells refer the bigger square consisting of 2x2 smaller ones. |
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Location: Indonesia | | 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. | Araf | | | 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 | |
Mmmhmm, editing this. |
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