|
|
Location: India | |
|
|
Location: India | |
|
|
Location: India | Tents
The answer key should contain column letters for leftmost tents in each row.
Column letters (A,B,C, etc) are displayed above the grid in the Puzzle Booklet in grey colour.
Use column letter X if there are no tents in a row.
Please go through the example in the Instructions Booklet for more clarity.
|
|
|
Posts: 25
Location: United Kingdom | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
|
|
|
Posts: 25
Location: United Kingdom | I don't understand why letters are used for columns: using numbers seems like a better option. Enjoyable puzzles, and a suitable difficulty level this time! |
|
|
Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author
Posts: 63
Location: United States | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
Very nice test as usual! Thanks for putting this together.
I'm not a huge fan of the magnets answer key because you have to alternate between holding shift for + and not holding shift for -. Could we use P and N instead?
Favorite Puzzles:
4 Skyscrapers - I like the almost symmetric grid. 12 Anglers - The 2x2 blocks of fish made the solve interesting. 19 Skylines - This had a lot of loop / skyscraper interaction. 22 Magnetic Fields - I like this variation a lot. |
|
|
WSPC Organizer
Posts: 739
Location: India | 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 | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Skyscrapers | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | 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 | |
Too hard period.
Favourites: Magnets 10x10, Skylines 8x8, Skyscrapers 7x7
Thanks Priyam and Prasanna!
|
|
|
Posts: 3
Location: Germany | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Magnets | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | 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 | |
|
|
|
Posts: 139
Location: Estonia | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Slitherlink | | 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 | |
Had some trouble with big hashi. Also hoped to finish the set and it was close. In general nice and logical puzzles.
But the points distribution was a bit off for me.
Edited by TiiT 2020-04-18 8:32 PM
|
|
|
Posts: 30
Location: France | 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? | Skylines | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys were horrible | | 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 | |
Maybe it’s just me, but I find answer keys with letters for the column numbering (instead of numbers) really painful. And I cannot see the point of having to put letters instead of digits. The digits are ordered, and the letters are thrown on the keyboard randomly, so I have to put one hand on the grid to check the alignment with the top letter, and the other hand on the keyboard, trembling from one letter to another, eyes staring wildely to find the good letter. |
|
|
Posts: 59
Location: United States | 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? | Skylines | | 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 | |
Excellent, entertaining themed puzzles as usual. No where near enough time as usual (for me--I have never been a speedy solver). |
|
|
SM 2020 (Converse and Odd Even) Author
Posts: 85
Location: India | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
This was fabulous! Priyam, you don't look like a first time author with this episode. Kudos to you and Prasanna for this. Puzzles were on the difficult side but thoroughly enjoyable. Magnets (17) spoiled my day as I got stuck for 15+ minutes and ultimately broke it. |
|
|
SM 2020 (Math) Author
Posts: 417
Location: India | 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? | Average | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Tents | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Answer keys could have been better | | Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty? | Most puzzles were worth too much or too little | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
Too hard.
Entering answer keys were a chore.In particular, Hashi's was very difficult to enter and I kept putting more digits than needed in the answer key due to wrong interpretation until I figured how it works.Maybe specific clues can be marked above by a letter and asking the number of clues connected to them would have been better ?!
Also having so many left out puzzles is no fun when one looks to complete the set.Overall an okay contest with too many difficult puzzles than needed.
Thanks Prasanna and Priyam for the contest. |
|
|
PR 2020 (Evergreens) Author
Posts: 36
Location: India | Thank you so much, for your kind words, Harmeet!
As a first time author it is very encouraging to hear..
Really glad you liked the Puzzles :)
Much thanks to everyone else too for the honest feedback on puzzle quality! Much appreciated :)
Edited by priyambhushan 2020-04-19 11:17 PM
|
|
|
PR 2020 (MII and Regions) Author
Posts: 55
Location: India | The quality of the puzzles were Awesome. I really liked the logic of each and every puzzle. The test was quite hard but enjoyable. It does not seems to be your first round Priyam :) Prasanna is one of the best authors so no need to mention him ;) .
unfortunately i solved 2 magnet puzzles and did not type the answer key. 14 points less from the total score :(
|
|
|
| What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | 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 | |
Very nice puzzles.
Anglers were all very enjoyable. The exploratory puzzles were very good too. The other 10 pointers were difficult but had very nice solve paths. |
|
|
Mean Minis (2020) Author
Posts: 774
Location: India | ashaash11ash - 2020-04-19 11:25 PM
The quality of the puzzles were Awesome. I really liked the logic of each and every puzzle. The test was quite hard but enjoyable. It does not seems to be your first round Priyam :) Prasanna is one of the best authors so no need to mention him ;) .
unfortunately i solved 2 magnet puzzles and did not type the answer key. 14 points less from the total score :(
Magnets were 2, 6 and 10 points. Which two added up to 14? |
|
|
PR 2020 (MII and Regions) Author
Posts: 55
Location: India | The 4 pointer exploratory one and the 10 pointer classic one.. |
|
|
| 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? | Magnetic Fields | | 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? | Too many pages / too large grids | |
|
|
|
PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author
Posts: 668
Location: India | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Magnetic Fields | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
As a lockdown exception, I participated in this round. Superb puzles. Quality and logic was amazing. Of course as others have already stated, its definitely hard round. I broke skyscraper 7 pointer and Hashi 10 pointer at the end. Could have been 17 points more. Didn't get time to even touch Magnets.
My favourites were: Skylines and Magnetic Fields
Awesome Job Priyam. Quality was excellent though difficulty was hard. Thoroughly Enjoyed. |
|
|
Posts: 26
Location: Finland | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | 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 | |
|
|
|
Posts: 74
Location: United States | 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? | Magnetic Fields | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
|
|
|
Posts: 55
Location: India | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Too many medium difficult puzzles | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | Which set of puzzles did you like the most? | Anglers | | What was your opinion about the answer key extraction? | Mostly 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 | |
Fantastic puzzles, great quality. Laptop shut down midway for some reason,and wasted ample time to boot it up again. The difficulty level was pretty high for me, as even the medium pointers took too long to fall. Loved the anglers 8 pointer especially and the magnets set. Slitherlink was a good solve as well. I feel answer key for magnets can be kept as P,N rather than +,-. Thank you Priyam and Prasanna ! |
|
|
| 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? | Skyscrapers | | 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 | |
I am a beginner and my opinion is not so important for the general good of the game, because I would never became a representative player. Also I am not a fast person in any aspect so probably I will never be a fast solver, even let assume experience in the end will give me some improvement. Still, I feel most of the tests are build on a difficult or very difficult side and the target diistribution of puzzles (mentioned in the feedback form - 50% easy, 40% medium, 10% hard) is not respected in most cases. Maybe I misjudge the difficulty and maybe this kind of tests are excellent for the top solvers - which is good in perspective of National & World Championship. Did you tought of a B-division kind of? I mean something like a preparation stage for medium or beginners solvers? Maybe this is not a purpose of this project, in this case my question is pointless. And I am not an Indian player, maybe this is also biasing me and is not relevant. I am just curious how you, the experienced players, see this matter. |
|
|
Posts: 15
Location: Romania | 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? | Skyscrapers | | 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 | |
I
Edited by BogdanG 2020-04-22 8:42 PM
|
|