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Location: India | Vote for the Tapa variations that you would want to see in TVC XVIIIWe are preparing TVC XVIII puzzles considering result of the poll. 6 Most voted variations will be directly placed in TVC XVIII. You can choose upto 5 variations.
- Scroll up in this thread to see variations that you can vote for.
- The list of all variations can be found here.
- Please vote for only 5 types (although the poll system will allow you to vote for more).
- You can view the poll results summary only after you have voted.
- Voting ends on 10th of January.
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Location: India | Please note that voting ends on 10th of January. |
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Location: India | Question in email -
I can see the options, but I don't know how to vote. There is no button to select.
You need to be logged on to forum to be able to vote. |
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Location: New Zealand | Why restrict to 1-5 votes?
Basically we are just offering a Yes vote to the variations we like.
If we like most of them, but dislike 2 or 3, then we can vote accordingly? (And vice versa) |
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Location: India | kiwijam - 2016-01-08 6:15 AM
Why restrict to 1-5 votes?
Basically we are just offering a Yes vote to the variations we like.
If we like most of them, but dislike 2 or 3, then we can vote accordingly? (And vice versa)
I had a word with Serkan and he is what we feel - the difference is very thin between "limiting to 5" and "not limiting at all".
Right now, we are asking vote "upto" 5 variations. One is free to choose less than 5 certainly.
If we don't put a limit and some players start voting for 7 or 8 variations (all Tapa variations are likeable, aren't they :) ), then the importance of their vote will reduce a lot.
Anyway, as I mentioned, we think the difference is really small. We can try our your idea in next poll.
Reminder - Voting closes in another 10 hours, as I post this. |
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Location: Indonesia | kiwijam meant voting 7-8 variations that people like is identical to voting 2-3 variations that people /don't/ like. So allowing voting more can give people the option to vote for variations they /don't/ want to see in the test, instead of what they want to see. |
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Location: India | Voting for TVC XVIII is closed now. As announced, we will include the top 6 voted variations (Tapa Connection, Tapa LITS, Tapa - Like Loop, Different Tapa, Not Alone Tapa & Tapa Scrabble) in the contest.
Many thanks to the 45 players who participated in this voting.
Voting for TVC XIX will be open in about a week.
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Location: The Netherlands | Is there an ETA on the instruction booklet? |
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Location: India | In Black Hole Tapa, it says Black Holes may touch each other diagonally. Does that mean they cannot touch orthogonally? I feel that's a better way to put it. |
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Location: Turkey | prasanna16391 - 2016-01-13 5:41 PM
In Black Hole Tapa, it says Black Holes may touch each other diagonally. Does that mean they cannot touch orthogonally? I feel that's a better way to put it.
Yes you are right, my mistake. I wrote this one as considering the Tapa have just one Black Hole in each row and column, but the actuall puzzle may have more than once. So, Black Holes may touch each other orthogonally and diagonally. I'll rewrite the sentence. |
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Location: Indonesia | I assume, in the example for Different Tapa, R4C1 should be shaded? |
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Location: Turkey | chaotic_iak - 2016-01-13 6:29 PM
I assume, in the example for Different Tapa, R4C1 should be shaded?
Absolutely right, it will be added in v2 |
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Location: The Netherlands | First part of the TVC XVIII practise set is now online: http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/tvc-xviii-practise-pa... |
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Location: India | An updated version of IB uploaded with following 2 changes.
yureklis - 2016-01-13 5:59 PM
prasanna16391 - 2016-01-13 5:41 PM
In Black Hole Tapa, it says Black Holes may touch each other diagonally. Does that mean they cannot touch orthogonally? I feel that's a better way to put it.
Yes you are right, my mistake. I wrote this one as considering the Tapa have just one Black Hole in each row and column, but the actuall puzzle may have more than once. So, Black Holes may touch each other orthogonally and diagonally. I'll rewrite the sentence.
yureklis - 2016-01-13 6:38 PM
chaotic_iak - 2016-01-13 6:29 PM
I assume, in the example for Different Tapa, R4C1 should be shaded?
Absolutely right, it will be added in v2 |
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Location: The Netherlands | Here is the second part of practise puzzles: http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/tvc-xviii-practise-pa...
I hope they are helpful. Enjoy. |
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Location: Japan | I don't know how to answer Tapa-Like Loop. For example, if there is an answer key in Row 2 of the example in IB, which will be right, 212 or 23? |
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Location: United States | For the 4x4 tapa, if there is an arrow at the left of the grids, do I enter the number of cells from just the leftmost grid, or from the two grids all the way across? |
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Location: Turkey | brecher92 - 2016-01-15 8:47 PM
For the 4x4 tapa, if there is an arrow at the left of the grids, do I enter the number of cells from just the leftmost grid, or from the two grids all the way across?
Each of the grid will have own arrows. So for your example, just for the lefmost grid. |
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Location: Turkey | Kota - 2016-01-15 9:02 AM
I don't know how to answer Tapa-Like Loop. For example, if there is an answer key in Row 2 of the example in IB, which will be right, 212 or 23?
We missed the exception of this one in the IB. We'll update of the IB and we'll add it to PB with example to avoid any confussion. Thanks for your remark.
The answer format will be: "Write the lengths of the separate line segments lying towards the marked rows/columns." |
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Location: India |  | | AnnouncementsPassword protected puzzle has 11 pages (including a cover page with points table)
Time bonus will be computed after you click 'Claim Bonus'
Penalty will be given irrespective of correctness of submission
Contest Length : 75 minutes
Total Points : 1000
Bonus : 4 points per minute saved (Computed upto seconds)
Grace Period : 5 minutes
Penalty : 6 points per minute used (Computed upto seconds)
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Location: India | Contest has started. |
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Location: Ukraine | Password is wrong. I can't open Puzzle Booklet |
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Location: Japan | The captions of Not Alone Tapa(2) are printed "8A,8B,8C" instead of "8D,8E,8F"... |
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Location: India | aldentea - 2016-01-16 5:06 PM
The captions of Not Alone Tapa(2) are printed "8A,8B,8C" instead of "8D,8E,8F"... Fixed. |
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