Riad Khanmagomedov's April Contest — 20th to 28th April 2016 | |
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Typed Logic Author Posts: 241 Location: Indonesia | Riad Khanmagomedov - 2016-04-30 9:33 PM chaotic_iak - 2016-04-30 9:25 AM While that alone isn't a big complaint, my issue is that I asked for clarification, but it went unanswered. I believe rule questions should be answered, because otherwise it's an unfair disadvantage for people that interpreted the ambiguous instruction incorrectly (for having an immediate contradiction like above). Your questions, I gave a clear answer - the 16-length loop to be accommodated in the 16-cell region (see under your question). The second part of the question was not answered, whether the loop may touch itself. I do know that the region is made of 16 cells, but I don't know how the loop works. My question was something like this. Left part is a correct Masyu-like loop, while right part is an incorrect Snake-like loop. Which of them is the rule in the puzzle? | ||
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Typed Logic Author Posts: 241 Location: Indonesia | Re Crossmind: That's why I'm interested to know the intended logical path to solve Crossmind, because it just looks completely beyond any approach I can think of. | ||
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 170 Location: Germany | chaotic_iak - 2016-05-01 1:25 AM Re Crossmind: That's why I'm interested to know the intended logical path to solve Crossmind, because it just looks completely beyond any approach I can think of. I would guess that you missed some of the Mastermind deductions. If my notes are correct, there are just 7 ambiguous words, of which only two have more than two options. | ||
chaotic_iak |
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Typed Logic Author Posts: 241 Location: Indonesia | No, I'm very confident my "solves" for Mastermind were right (because I just used programming to brute force each combination). But even with all of that, I still can't figure out where to start placing any of them. | ||
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Posts: 1 Location: Russia | About the "Crossmind" discussion: The crossword part of this puzzle is completely logically solvable without using of uniqueness. You should start with second "left-to-right" word (middle top of the grid). The first and the last letters of this word must be 4th letters in some pair of words. There are only 3 possible words, 2 of them very quickly lead to the contradiction. Next - everything goes without problems. On the competition as a whole - it is exactly as it should be. Edited by dm_litv 2016-05-01 3:46 PM | ||
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Posts: 172 Location: ITALY | dm_litv - 2016-05-01 3:43 PM On the competition as a whole - it is exactly as it should be. I fully agree. [a bit OT, a question for admin] Is there scope for competitions dedicated to optimization puzzles only? Stefano Edited by forcolin 2016-05-01 8:19 PM | ||
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Posts: 1 Location: India | I am unable to understand about it, could you reply me with proper or actual question? | ||
kiwijam |
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Posts: 187 Location: New Zealand | forcolin - 2016-05-02 3:19 AM Is there scope for competitions dedicated to optimization puzzles only? Stefano I think the optimization puzzles are the highlight of Riad's tests. This time there were only 2, and they were 'solvable', but I'd like to see more too! | ||
Riad Khanmagomedov |
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Moscow Puzzle Cup 2016 Author Posts: 234 Location: Russia | Thanks to all the participants! Next year it will be necessary to return to the format with three optimization puzzles. | ||
forcolin |
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Posts: 172 Location: ITALY | I agree with both the last posts. However I miss a bit the good old DOM. | ||
Eugene Porter |
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Posts: 11 Location: United States | Does anyone have a solution for the Trid-Fir? I keep getting stuck. | ||
Eugene Porter |
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Posts: 11 Location: United States | This is a very tough contest. I am also struggling with the Voyage puzzle. Even after looking at the answer string I am not sure how to do this puzzle. Is there a solutions page somewhere. After spending several days on these and getting nowhere it would be nice to know what it is I am not getting. Any help would be great. | ||
kiwijam |
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Posts: 187 Location: New Zealand | It was a tough contest, much harder than other contests because you have a week instead of an hour to solve them. Perhaps show us an image of where you are up to and we can suggest some next steps? | ||
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