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Indian Puzzle Championship 2014
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rvarun
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 5:24 PM (#15390 - in reply to #15186) (#15390) Top




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 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


rajeshk
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 5:33 PM (#15391 - in reply to #15186) (#15391) Top



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 How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? Perfectly balanced
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 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 5:42 PM (#15392 - in reply to #15186) (#15392) Top


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Official Results


Congrats to the top 3 -
1. Amit Sowani
2. Rohan Rao
3. Swaroop Guggilam

The Official results can be seen here - http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC/score.asp

As mentioned earlier, the top 10 are eligible for prizes. Please mail me at prasannaseshadri@logicmastersindia.com for claiming prizes/certificate hard copies.

Thanks.

On a personal note, I'm quite happy with the 3 solvers making it to the Indian team.



rakesh_rai
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 5:52 PM (#15393 - in reply to #15392) (#15393) Top



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Congratulations to all winners.
swaroop2011
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 5:54 PM (#15394 - in reply to #15186) (#15394) Top



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Congrats Amit for winning the title. Congrats Rohan too.
Finally feeling happy, break through after missing from past 3 years.
Will give detailed comment about test later.

Thanks for awesome puzzles to all authors. Thanks to Deb and Prasanna for organizing so well.
macherlakumar
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:04 PM (#15395 - in reply to #15186) (#15395) Top





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Firstly thanks to the organizers and authors for a wonderful test.

Congrats to Amit, Rohan and Swaroop.
Swaroop finally made it no more close miss this time :D

Thanks and Regards,
Ravi
megu
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:17 PM (#15396 - in reply to #15186) (#15396) Top




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I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.

I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2

What is the right answer?

Edited by megu 2014-05-25 6:18 PM
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:23 PM (#15397 - in reply to #15396) (#15397) Top


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Megu3 - 2014-05-25 6:17 PM

I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.

I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2

What is the right answer?


Without releasing right answer yet, I'll give you a chance to solve it yourself. You've missed the rule that operator precedence is followed, i.e., Multiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction. So your equation for 1 will actually become 15 - 1.5, not 6/6.
macherlakumar
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:24 PM (#15398 - in reply to #15396) (#15398) Top





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5 x 3 - 9 / 6 is (5 x 3) - (9/6) = 15-(3/2) = 13.5

Regards,
Ravi

Edited by debmohanty 2014-05-25 7:44 PM
achan1058
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:24 PM (#15399 - in reply to #15396) (#15399) Top




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Equation 3 is wrong, since you need to respect the order of operations, which gets you 13.5.

Edited by achan1058 2014-05-25 6:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:31 PM (#15400 - in reply to #15186) (#15400) 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? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


greenhorn
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 6:48 PM (#15401 - in reply to #15186) (#15401) Top


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 How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? Perfectly balanced
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 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Too many pages / too large grids


Some grids were too large. Everything else was great. Thanks for the puzzles :)
lenson
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 7:01 PM (#15402 - in reply to #15186) (#15402) Top





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 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


megu
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 7:09 PM (#15403 - in reply to #15397) (#15403) Top




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Oh! I get it now! How silly of me!

I applied the operator precedence rule in other 3 parts and failed at one part.

I solved it now, I hope I have got it right this time:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 - 5 x 2 + 7 = 1
5 - 3 / 9 x 6 = 3
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2

I will have to keep in mind to re-check everything before submission for future contests, however few puzzles I am able to finish.

Thank you for the reply. Also thanks to the other two people who replied.

wgryciuk
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 7:59 PM (#15404 - in reply to #15186) (#15404) 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? A bit hard
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


An LMI player
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 10:06 PM (#15406 - in reply to #15186) (#15406) Top


 Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC? Yes, mostly.
 Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB? I understood all of them.
 Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship? No, there were really few easy puzzles.
 After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? Most likely


rajeshk
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-25 11:55 PM (#15408 - in reply to #15186) (#15408) Top



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Congrats to all the winners.
Well Done Amit with great performance.

swaroop2011
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 3:22 AM (#15410 - in reply to #15186) (#15410) Top



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 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


devarajand
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 7:53 AM (#15411 - in reply to #15186) (#15411) Top




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devarajand
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 8:02 AM (#15412 - in reply to #15186) (#15412) Top




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In E1 Star battle my logic went like this.

1. Every region need to have 6 stars.
2. At C2 there must be a stars.
3. The same region holds 2 stars at column A and D.
4. So one star must be at B or C9.
5. The other small region holds 2 stars at column F and H.
6. One star at G 5/6/7.
7. One at I 2/3.
But i wasted hell of time and could not finish the puzzle. Can any one guide me were I went wrong.
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 8:08 AM (#15413 - in reply to #15412) (#15413) Top


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devarajand - 2014-05-26 8:02 AM

In E1 Star battle my logic went like this.

1. Every region need to have 6 stars.
2. At C2 there must be a stars.
3. The same region holds 2 stars at column A and D.
4. So one star must be at B or C9.
5. The other small region holds 2 stars at column F and H.
6. One star at G 5/6/7.
7. One at I 2/3.
But i wasted hell of time and could not finish the puzzle. Can any one guide me were I went wrong.


You haven't gone wrong anywhere so far, but you can reduce things more. Remember that there can be only one star for each 2x2 area of cells. Dividing the "K" shape into this distribution helps - 1 star in I23/H3. 1 star in H34. 1 star in F34. One star in F56/G56. One star in F78. One star in H78. (G7 cannot be a star because you need 2 stars in F78/G7/H78 and this will contradict things). You should be able to reduce it further from here.
spelvin
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 8:33 AM (#15414 - in reply to #15186) (#15414) Top




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I'm embarrassed, but I have no idea how the matching rule was supposed to work for A4. Can someone put me out of my misery?
devarajand
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 9:03 AM (#15415 - in reply to #15413) (#15415) Top




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G6 also cannot hold a star. If we place a star at G6, F8 and H8 must hold a star, this restricts placing any star between E9 and I9. Is this logic correct.
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 9:17 AM (#15416 - in reply to #15415) (#15416) Top


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devarajand - 2014-05-26 9:03 AM

G6 also cannot hold a star. If we place a star at G6, F8 and H8 must hold a star, this restricts placing any star between E9 and I9. Is this logic correct.


No, you can still fit 2 stars in the remaining 4 cells of the row, A/D9 and B/C9. You can reduce it elsewhere on the K.
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Indian Puzzle Championship 2014 @ 2014-05-26 9:18 AM (#15417 - in reply to #15414) (#15417) Top


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spelvin - 2014-05-26 8:33 AM

I'm embarrassed, but I have no idea how the matching rule was supposed to work for A4. Can someone put me out of my misery?


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