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Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016
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brecher92
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-23 1:44 AM (#21096 - in reply to #20393) (#21096)Quote Reply Top




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Great battle on the USA side -- only 2.7 points separate first place from second, and only 1.3 points separate third place from fourth.
debmohanty
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-23 9:02 AM (#21099 - in reply to #21080) (#21099)Quote Reply Top



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cheese - 2016-02-21 8:41 PM

cheese - 2016-02-18 9:46 PM

I could not submit my solution (18th Feb) when I finished solving it (about 20 minutes before deadline). I tried again then some minutes later again but could submit only after a half hour.


Deb, sorry for disturbing again, could you check if I had the same problem as Nilz? Thank you!
Fixed.
Sorry about the delayed response.
marred
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-23 2:10 PM (#21100 - in reply to #20393) (#21100)Quote Reply Top




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Thanks for great contest. I really enjoyed solving this puzzles. I think now my tapa skills are much higher than two months earlier :)
CTC Comments
Subject: [CTC] Comments on 2016-02-21's Tapa @ 2016-02-24 12:14 AM (#21103 - in reply to #20393) (#21103)Quote Reply Top


Comments on 2016-02-21's Tapa
swaroop2011 commented at 2016-02-21 00:57:44
Nice easy puzzle. Nice connectivity rule used from bottom.
swaroop2011
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-24 2:55 AM (#21104 - in reply to #20393) (#21104)Quote Reply Top



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Thanks for the awesome puzzles. I messed up lot of days. But still had lot of fun. I hope you are feeling better now.
Thanks Serkan and LMI.
brecher92
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-24 7:46 AM (#21106 - in reply to #20393) (#21106)Quote Reply Top




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Great contest. Bravo.
CTC Comments
Subject: [CTC] Comments on 2016-02-22's Tapa @ 2016-02-25 12:15 AM (#21107 - in reply to #20393) (#21107)Quote Reply Top


Comments on 2016-02-22's Tapa
marred commented at 2016-02-22 00:28:05
I'm pretty sure, that my second attempt was correct. But I get message this is incorrect. I lost about 10 minutes looking for mistake, not seeing any mistake sent the same solution and... it was correct. Is it possible?
marred commented at 2016-02-22 00:33:30
Ok, nevermind, I didn't click "Send solution" after making amendments and I was still thinking that even after amendments I'm still wrong.
debmohanty commented at 2016-02-22 00:51:10
An incorrect solution was recorded. We have fixed the same. See forum post for details.
swaroop2011 commented at 2016-02-22 04:42:15
I kept making mistakes. Had to restart 5 times. I dunno why i was repeating same mistake. Bad day. So one more to go.
kiwijam commented at 2016-02-22 08:27:37
Another great puzzle. It's sad to say goodbye soon :) Many thanks to Serkan for this series. (I think you were the only author?)
hinowbye commented at 2016-02-23 00:31:33
Today's the last puzzle?!? dang...This was fun!
GaS
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-25 4:49 AM (#21109 - in reply to #20393) (#21109)Quote Reply Top




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No more daily TAPA? Noooooo,
What a pity... :-(

Thanks very much to all the organizers and, expecially, Serkan: it was a great contest (despite my mediocre results, but I can't expect better :-)
Looking for next TVC to have more tapa puzzles!
EMJ
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-25 7:55 AM (#21110 - in reply to #20393) (#21110)Quote Reply Top




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Thanks so much to Serkan and all for the great puzzles and great contest. I especially liked the extended number of weeks. And the system works so well. I hope there will be another contest next year.

If there is, I have one suggestion that might not be too hard to implement. In the "Other's Solves" section, would it be possible to add a "Pause" button in addition to the stop button? After pressing the stop button, the start button clears the grid and starts the solve over. I would greatly enjoy the ability to pause on a solve to try to figure out what the next step should be and then continue from that point.

Another wish (which might be more difficult to implement) involves "reviewing" a puzzle. I sometimes clear previously solved puzzles and rework them. I would like to be able to confirm that my re-solve is correct, especially for the larger puzzles.

Thanks again, and I hope you are feeling much better soon, Serkan!
CTC Comments
Subject: [CTC] Comments on 2016-02-23's Tapa @ 2016-02-26 12:16 AM (#21112 - in reply to #20393) (#21112)Quote Reply Top


Comments on 2016-02-23's Tapa
Hotel commented at 2016-02-23 16:53:56
This is the last day, and it's a nice puzzle too. Thanks for great Tapa puzzles!
Nola commented at 2016-02-23 16:56:08
Oh no, finally my first error on the last day. But 50 wonderful puzzles! Thanks for the nice series!
rajeshk commented at 2016-02-23 23:25:26
Thanks a lot for this Tapa Contest. Looking forward to some more similar contests :)
hinowbye commented at 2016-02-24 01:15:06
Nice puzzle for the end :) my mouse kinda died during this so I kinda lost like 45 seconds but its ok :)
debmohanty
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-26 8:09 AM (#21116 - in reply to #20393) (#21116)Quote Reply Top



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Classic Tapa Contest for 2016 is officially over. sai won the contest, by a huge margin, as most of us were expecting. EKBM and Prasanna had a very close contest, with EKBM jumping ahead in last few days. Congratulations.

Despite the minor hiccups on few days, I hope everyone enjoyed the contest. Like every year, we will be posting some stats soon.
debmohanty
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-02-26 8:13 AM (#21117 - in reply to #20393) (#21117)Quote Reply Top



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Personally, it would have been very exciting to have Prasanna at the second place, but he can take consolation in the fact that he has lost to none other than the World Puzzle Champion.
debmohanty
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 4:48 AM (#21192 - in reply to #20393) (#21192)Quote Reply Top



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Some statistics about CTC 2016








debmohanty
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 5:42 AM (#21193 - in reply to #20393) (#21193)Quote Reply Top



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Some statistics (about different days)


















debmohanty
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 5:43 AM (#21194 - in reply to #20393) (#21194)Quote Reply Top



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Some statistics (By Sizes)


swaroop2011
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 7:10 AM (#21195 - in reply to #20393) (#21195)Quote Reply Top



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I could solve this puzzle logically upto this point. I would like to know apart from intuition of using uniqueness at center, is there any other steps if others can figure out ?



Para
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 7:32 AM (#21196 - in reply to #20393) (#21196)Quote Reply Top




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There is a hard deduction on the left side. You can't get past the 113 in R8C2. If you were to go past the left of it R7C3 would be an isolated cell because of the 14 and 24. The 22 blocks passing down the bottom. This means that section of the Tapa wall must connect down the bottom of the grid.

Edited by Para 2016-03-04 7:34 AM
swaroop2011
Subject: Re: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-04 11:27 AM (#21197 - in reply to #21196) (#21197)Quote Reply Top



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Para - 2016-03-04 7:32 AM

There is a hard deduction on the left side. You can't get past the 113 in R8C2. If you were to go past the left of it R7C3 would be an isolated cell because of the 14 and 24. The 22 blocks passing down the bottom. This means that section of the Tapa wall must connect down the bottom of the grid.


ah i see now. Nice. Thanks.
prasanna16391
Subject: RE: Classic Tapa Contest — 2nd January - 20th February 2016 @ 2016-03-08 2:56 PM (#21218 - in reply to #21192) (#21218)Quote Reply Top


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debmohanty - 2016-03-04 4:48 AM

Some statistics about CTC 2016





Who would have predicted in 2012 that I would be one of the most consistent ones in a future edition? :P I still remember the drastic ups and downs from that year. Its sad that that one mistake came because of a double click around a 1-1 corner clue, would have been nice to have perfect accuracy like deu :)
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