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Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb
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greenhorn
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-02-27 5:52 AM (#22598 - in reply to #22462) (#22598) Top


2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer

Posts: 164
100202020
Location: Slovakia
 How well did you like the theme of the contest? I did not like the theme
 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Below Average
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Tapa
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


90% of guessing the snowmen numbers, 10% of solving...
I started with Tapa and Hitori, which went really well, but the rest was beyond my understanding. Sorry :(
Swagatam
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-02-27 12:26 PM (#22599 - in reply to #22462) (#22599) Top




Posts: 45
2020
Location: India
 How well did you like the theme of the contest? I somewhat liked the theme
 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice


Grizix
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-02-28 12:20 AM (#22603 - in reply to #22462) (#22603) Top




Posts: 30
20
Location: France
 How well did you like the theme of the contest? I really liked the theme
 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Too many hard puzzles
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Very nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Tapa
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Many puzzles were worth too much or too little
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Administrator
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-02-28 12:10 PM (#22605 - in reply to #22462) (#22605) Top


2000100050020
Location: India
Link to solutions booklet
AndreyBogdanov
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-03-01 1:50 PM (#22607 - in reply to #22462) (#22607) Top


Snowmen Author

Posts: 44
2020
Location: Russia
Congratulations to Endo, Kota and Takuya for the podium!
Thank to all participants. Additional thank for the feedback - it's always quite useful to read comments even if it is negative.

The idea and most puzzles are created by Ivan Laptiev - this is his first experience as a puzzlemaker and I think he succeeded. Yes, puzzles required quite a few of summation and counting, but this was supposed by the theme. Surprisingly many strong solvers don't like math :)
Puzzles seems to be a bit too hard, but luckily Endo "rescue" the contest and solve all of them. Definitely preliminary preparation (for example writing down a list of sequences containing three-four members) can help a lot with this contest. Non integral "fattiness" could be a surprise, but the hint was in the file password.
WA1729
Subject: Re: Snowmen - LMI February Puzzle Test - 24th to 27th Feb @ 2017-03-02 2:31 AM (#22611 - in reply to #22462) (#22611) Top



Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author

Posts: 60
202020
Location: United States
 How well did you like the theme of the contest? I really liked the theme
 What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? Just right
 What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? Fairly Nice
 Which set of puzzles did you like the most? Tapa
 What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? Perfect answer keys
 Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? Most puzzles were worth the right amount
 What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? Just right


Favorites:

Both Tapas
Samurai Sudoku
Hidato 2

Thanks for a great test! I liked the theme behind this one and felt that it led to interesting puzzles. I made some guesses on a few of the puzzles so I'll have to look at them later.

Thanks!
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