Puzzle Marathon 2016 - LMI April Puzzle Test - 1st to 12th April | |
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SilBer |
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Posts: 8 Location: Germany | Yes, I know for every 4x4 sudoku, which four letters it contains. But after this, now I have to find a word which has only one possible place, or something like that, I think? And this is the point were I can't find something to go on. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 170 Location: Germany | SilBer - 2016-03-31 12:39 AM Yes, I know for every 4x4 sudoku, which four letters it contains. But after this, now I have to find a word which has only one possible place, or something like that, I think? And this is the point were I can't find something to go on. For example, there's just one way to place NORTH (and to get there, only one pair of 4x4 boxes with N and H where you can find ORT between them). It helps to write down a 3x3 grid with the letters per box. Edited by rob 2016-03-31 2:07 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 8 Location: Germany | Okay, thank you, I try that. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 8 Location: Germany | It works. :-) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location: India | rob - 2016-03-31 2:06 AM Very useful tip!It helps to write down a 3x3 grid with the letters per box. | ||||||||||||||||||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | Puzzle grid sizes are displayedPuzzle grid sizes are now displayed in submission page. | ||||||||||||||||||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | All password protected puzzle pdfs are zipped into a single file. The same can be downloaded from the submission page. Hope it is more convenient than downloading 12 different files. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sudoku Day Author Posts: 103 Location: Serbia | One more short question. In Word Search Sudoku can a given word appear in the grid twice or multiple times? | ||||||||||||||||||
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Location: India | Nikola - 2016-04-01 2:02 AM Each given word has to appear at least once.One more short question. In Word Search Sudoku can a given word appear in the grid twice or multiple times? | ||||||||||||||||||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | Like every year, he finished all the 12 puzzles in a stretch. Congratulations to Gotroch. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 83 Location: Czech Republic |
I successfuly finished Marathon! (And I did it in quite Marathon way - solving all puzzles in one 8 hour session) Thanks for very nice puzzles! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 61 Location: United States |
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Posts: 7 Location: South Korea |
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Triplets & Triangles Author Posts: 63 Location: United Kingdom |
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Eykir |
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Posts: 11 Location: United States |
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Para |
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Posts: 315 Location: The Netherlands |
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Puzlifouk |
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Posts: 67 Location: France |
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TiiT |
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Posts: 139 Location: Estonia |
The puzzles actually were all reasonable in terms of difficulty. They were comparable with each other. Last year you never knew how long it takes and it was hard to plan solving them. This year it was nicely done. I was also afraid a bit of the Twin Coordinates puzzle but it actually took about the same time as others - so perfect. Some got a jackpot with this but if you consider that you can throw 2 away, it's not a big problem if you fail this. Anyway, cheers to the organizers for such a great competition. It'll be interesting to watch where I end up. TiiT | ||||||||||||||||||
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 170 Location: Germany | TiiT - 2016-04-03 9:56 PM I was also afraid a bit of the Twin Coordinates puzzle but it actually took about the same time as others - so perfect. Some got a jackpot with this but if you consider that you can throw 2 away, it's not a big problem if you fail this. Anyway, cheers to the organizers for such a great competition. It'll be interesting to watch where I end up. TiiT I think my copy of that puzzle was broken, it had just three twins. :) Before the contest, I thought the scoring change which allowed authors to also skip two was unnecessary, but now I'm quite thankful for it! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 10 Location: Germany |
Great puzzles! Thank you. Now that I know the real rules of Poset Futoshiki, I am not very happy with the example. I thought that "X < Y" means I can only place numbers X and Y which are connected by an arrow. The fact that I can jump over numbers was not very clear. But that's just a minor remark. All in all it was a nice contest, I can't even choose my favorites, because each one of the puzzles was really cool. Edited by Semax 2016-04-04 3:04 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 102 Location: United States |
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kishy72 |
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SM 2020 (Math) Author Posts: 417 Location: India |
Thanks to all authors for knitting together a beautiful contest . I greatly enjoyed the aesthetics and the solve path in all the puzzles with the exception of 1 or 2 puzzles which I hated. I also like this concept of slightly lesser difficult marathon puzzles enabling bonus. I hope this formula continues from next year .Thanks to Prasanna for helping me out with the example puzzles of Hex slitherlink and domino loop snake. These were new types to me and without solving the examples,I couldn't have solved the contest ones. The marathon is becoming better and sweeter each year and this year was no exception !! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 31 Location: United States | Is there a way to play this without it impacting my rating? I will only have time for a few of the puzzles... | ||||||||||||||||||
debmohanty |
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Location: India | RALehrer - 2016-04-05 5:19 PM There is no way to select this option from the submission page, but we will exclude your score from ratings calculations as per this request.Is there a way to play this without it impacting my rating? I will only have time for a few of the puzzles... | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 25 Location: United States |
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