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Location: India | chaotic_iak - 2014-08-02 6:54 PM
Does Surprise mean an unknown type, with instructions revealed during test, or Round 5-like type with absolutely no instructions?
It will be a surprise. And it is very simple. Only 4 points :P
chaotic_iak - 2014-08-02 6:54 PM
What about answer keys?
Will be available shortly. |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
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Location: India | Its awesome that in such less time, you all came up with 54 practice puzzles. Surely much needed one.
Looking forward to it.
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Location: India | Answer Keys for Day1
The submission page is now enabled, and you can view answer keys after logging in. The link is : http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/07P/?round=1
We have used the following mechanisms for answer keys :
• For loop puzzles, Enter lengths of horizontal segments for marked row
• For shading puzzles, Enter 1 for shaded cells, 0 other wise
• For number placement puzzles, contents of marked rows
However, many other puzzles have specific answer keys. If there are any questions, please post in forum before starting the test.
Puzzle Booklet for Day1
• There are 27 pages (so please plan accordingly! )
• It does not contain the pentomino sets/tetromino sets/Battleship fleet along with the corresponding puzzles. Please familiarize yourself with these from the WPC IB
• Have fun solving the puzzles!
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Kakuro Author
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Location: Czech Republic | Thanks for very good practise for WPC!! Mainly I examined the rules closely.
Is it possible to add somewhere link to results? :)
Edited by jaku111 2014-08-03 3:04 PM
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Location: India | jaku111 - 2014-08-03 2:48 PM
Thanks for very good practise for WPC!! Mainly I examined the rules closely.
Is it possible to add somewhere link to results? :)
Thanks Jakub. We put together whatever was the first idea that came into our heads, so all puzzles are not as neat as we would have liked, but, something is better than nothing :-)
We will share the link to the results in a while (sometime today), please bear with us. We are getting the Day-2 set ready as well :-)
Thanks again and see you in London.
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Location: India | In Kropki With Blank : Place either a digit from 1-9 into each cell or leave it blank.
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Kakuro Author
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Location: Czech Republic | Only small mistake in Blank Kropki I found. In the London-Puzzle (WPC is same as WPC) there are only digits 1-8. In online puzzle there are digits 1-9. (I skipped it during the competition.) It is only small mistake nothing important ;)
I´m looking forward to Day-2 set, thanks for good practising. See you in London Rohan. |
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Location: India | jaku111 - 2014-08-03 2:48 PM
Is it possible to add somewhere link to results? :)
It is available now - http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/07P/score.asp
We will add the feedback page etc later (if required) |
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Location: India | Seems like Kropki With Blanks is the black sheep of the set (though its one of my personal favourites). Some of you were marked wrong for your correct submissions. We've updated the score page and you have been given points for Kropki With Blanks. |
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Location: India | Is anyone planning to do something similar for sudoku.. |
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Location: Canada | Something's wrong. I am trying to edit my answer to the last problem, and it is not letting me do so. |
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Toketa? Selection Author
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Location: Japan | twas a great test! I wish this was counted in the ratings.
I will not be in London this year but I hope all the participants have great puzzle time there!!
By the way, it seems that some Japanese puzzlers are making some practices on twitter.
copy the tag below and search for nice Japanese treat ;-)
#WPC??
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Oops, corrupted...
Check this tweet, and hashtag on it.
https://twitter.com/ark184/status/496036287757832192?lang=ja
Edited by xevs 2014-08-04 8:46 AM
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Location: India | Points table for Day 2 published. |
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Location: India | Answer keys for Day 2 now available.
Please login and check before you start Day 2. |
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Location: India | Answer Keys for Day2
The submission page is now enabled, and you can view answer keys after logging in. The link is : http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/07P/?round=2
We have used the following mechanisms for answer keys :
• For loop puzzles, Enter lengths of horizontal segments for marked row
• For shading puzzles, Enter 1 for shaded cells, 0 other wise
• For number placement puzzles, contents of marked rows
• For 'Pentominos In Half', entering the correct pentominos in alphabetical order will get you immediate points. If you submit the correct set of pentominos in the wrong order, we will manually check and give you points (which may take some time )
However, many other puzzles have specific answer keys. If there are any questions, please post in forum before starting the test.
Puzzle Booklet for Day2
• There are 28 pages (so please plan accordingly! )
• It does not contain the pentomino sets/tetromino sets along with the corresponding puzzles, except for 'Pentominoes in Half' for answer key purposes. Please familiarize yourself with these from the WPC IB
Note
• We have compiled the set and got it ready as soon as possible. In case of any errors, we apologize and will rectify it as soon as possible
• Duration is 180-minutes since Day-2 puzzles are harder (and most are non-Classic puzzles ) than Day-1. Please don't fall asleep while solving :- )
• Have fun solving the puzzles!
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Location: India | Errata
• Rules for Pentomino Loop in the puzzle booklet is slightly different from that in the official WPC-IB.
The adjacent pentominos touch each other at one or more border segments.
• Rules for Inside Out in the puzzle booklet is slightly different from that in the official WPC-IB.
White circles are inside the loop and black circles are outside the loop.
• An updated version of the Puzzle Booklet has been uploaded on 5th August, 20:00 IST (14:30 GMT). If you downloaded it earlier, please download it again.
Apologies to those who participated before these announcements.
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Location: United States | Thanks again to all the magical web elves who kindly award points when we make harebrained entry mistakes. We love you! |
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Location: The Netherlands | Thanks for the puzzles. Hopefully my solving will be a bit less chaotic at the championship (so many puzzles....). |
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Hex Slitherlink Author
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Location: France | Thanks a lot for the great practice puzzles! Obviously, trying to play this while on a business trip to Korea and before I finished digesting the whole WPC booklet was not the smartest thing ever. I'll have to go over a lot of day 2 again... |
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Location: Germany | Yes, day 2 has a lot more unknown / unusual / new puzzle types than day 1...
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Location: Luxembourg | Thank you very much for all these practice puzzles. |
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WSPC Organizer
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Location: India | The organizers (Deb, Prasanna and me) are off to London for the World Championships. This contest will be open throughout the weekend but any changes/adjustments in the final scores will be done sometime next week, so please be patient if we don't respond to queries/claims.
Thanks to the participants for participating (will meet many of you soon) and hope everyone enjoyed the puzzles! |
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Location: New Zealand | Many thanks Rohan, Prasanna, Deb: a very impressive effort! |
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Location: Austria | Hi there,
since the competition is over: could you please publish the password for the puzzle booklets?
Would be really great!
Best regards! |
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Location: Canada | Yeah, it would also be nice to have the answer keys once you guys get back to India. |
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