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Location: Singapore | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Heyawake | | | 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 | |
Really nice puzzles. While I didn't have time to do some of the puzzles (i.e. Araf, Mini Coral, Turning Fences), the other 7 I did were really elegant.
I wonder if a couple of days more were given, would the results have been better, but then again, I doubt most people are as busy (and slow) as me in solving... |
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Location: India | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | 4X4 Sudoku | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mini Coral | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Scrabble | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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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| | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Turning Fences | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Nanro | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | |
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| | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Heyawake | | | 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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Snowmen Author
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Location: Russia | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Scrabble | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | KakurOH | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly 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? | Fairly Nice | |
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CTC & TVC Author & Organizer
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Location: Turkey | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Statue Park | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Turning Fences | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Araf | | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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| | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Mini Coral | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | Yajilin | | | Your 3 most favorite puzzles of the contest. | KakurOH | | | 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: France | Hey !
I hope it's not too hard to read my puzzle.
Is someone could give me a nudge, that would be cool.
See here : http://tinypic.com/r/24otxz8/8
Thanks anyway ! |
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Location: India | Grizix - 2014-03-04 5:35 AM
Hey !
I hope it's not too hard to read my puzzle.
Is someone could give me a nudge, that would be cool.
See here : http://tinypic.com/r/24otxz8/8
Thanks anyway !
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Sudoku Grand Prix - Turkish Round Author
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Location: Turkey | Try to solve for the clue 2 in the first column. It should give the left part of the puzzle. You will also get some constraints for the lower parts. |
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Location: United States | Is there something wrong with the "median time" calculation under details? The numbers are all under 60 minutes, even for puzzles where less than half of submitters got the bonus. If I counted rows correctly, the median for the Heyawake should be 193:18, not 44:14. |
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Location: India | Tablesaw - 2014-03-04 6:22 AM
Is there something wrong with the "median time" calculation under details? The numbers are all under 60 minutes, even for puzzles where less than half of submitters got the bonus. If I counted rows correctly, the median for the Heyawake should be 193:18, not 44:14. Median time, which is computed for bonus purpose, is actually the median time of "all submissions below 60 minutes".
As such, submissions above 60 minutes does not always reflect true timings and are not any reliable. |
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WSPC Organizer
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Location: India | Thanks to all the authors and organizers for this wonderful test. I enjoyed this test very much and learned lot of variations which were new to me. Looking forward to more such tests and being a author of one marathon puzzle in near future.
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We thought it'd be nice to acknowledge some of the Marathon Solvers. There is some criteria for this list - We didn't consider solvers going more than 2 hours on a single puzzle, because they might have taken a break mid-puzzle. Also, the total accumulated break time in between solving is equal to or less than an hour.
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Location: France | Thank you for the help debmohanty !
And, wow, I'm amazed about those real marathoners.
For me, it was really a whole week of solving, with a total time of 5035:57 ! |
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| The LMI Marathon puzzle that was solved during the competition was actually the second version. In the first version I put in some stuff that came naturally to me for this genre, but stumped the test solvers. That's why there was an easier second version, which still took a relatively long time for the test solvers. That was why I added the Tutorial on my blog, just so people would realise the basics that I had figured out when designing these puzzles.
Here is the first puzzle I wrote. There are a few similarities to the second puzzle as I kept the bits that were solved quickly in the first test solve in the puzzle. It has the same layout as the second puzzle. For those who hadn't figured out the layout, the givens are in the shape of 25 letters that spell out TURNING FENCES LMI MARATHON 3 in an inward clockwise spiral. The 3 shape is made up completely of 3's.
Enjoy, but take some time to get through it logically.
Rules for Turning Fences
Posted in LMI, Naoki, Puzzle, Turning Fences |
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Hex Slitherlink Author
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Location: France | Very nice, but indeed quite difficult... (took me 79 minutes). |
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Location: Singapore | Out of curiosity, will there be any more tests this month? Believe me, the marathon was more than sufficient, but just wondering. |
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Location: United Kingdom | I can't work out how to get the box with the 1 around the 11 in the top left corner. I got stuck here twice and couldn't get around it. Have I made a mistake somewhere else or what? I can't get past this part. |
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Location: United Kingdom | I still can't work out how to get the block with the 1 in it around the 11 and out of that corner. Have I made a mistake somewhere else or in my reasoning there? |
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Location: United Kingdom | I still can't work out how to get the block with the 1 (on the left of the 1,2,3,4 at the top) in it around the 11 and out of the top right corner. Have I made a mistake somewhere else or in my reasoning there?
Cannot work out how to upload a picture, so this is the best I can do for now.
Edit: Oops! All my attachment attempts were posting to the forum! Sorry...
Edited by pinkagape 2014-03-06 1:29 PM
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Location: United States | Not completely sure what you're talking about without an image, but it sounds like the Araf? If so the 1 from the 1234 at top heads left, doglegs around some activity in the top corner, slips in between the 11 and the 3x3 block of clues and then down. Sounds like maybe you've got a glitch somewhere in that top left corner. |
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Location: India | Here is the solution to Araf puzzle, if that helps.
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Location: United States | Is there a solution posted for the heyawake? I've started it about 5 times and always run into a contradiction somewhere (despite running in different directions). |
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Location: India | quijax - 2014-03-08 7:10 AM
Is there a solution posted for the heyawake? I've started it about 5 times and always run into a contradiction somewhere (despite running in different directions).
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