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Location: India | A refreshingly different approach! The tenth puzzle is also there to address an unlikely tie ,apart from being there to be solved.Now, given that a tie is anyway at very high odds, i have a (better?) suggestion(thats too late for this week though),that i think fits well into this theme.If a tie occurs,calculate the most popular ( based on most solved & least time taken)puzzle,create an easier ( or harder) one of that type and start a tie-breaker) with that single puzzle (remember this would not have to be done anyway!,so no harm conceptualizing). |
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Location: India | Announcements
Flash submission page is now enabled. There is a list with all puzzle types. After you click on a puzzle, you can click on "Start Puzzle" and your timer for the puzzle will start.
[ 8 puzzles are uploaded today. 1 will be uploaded tomorrow and last one will be uploaded next day ]
As discussed earlier, we have posted the grid sizes next to the puzzle. You can also see relative difficulty of puzzles. In fact the list is sorted based on difficulty (easy puzzles -> difficult puzzle)
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Location: India | I get a question from a player
I'm trying the marathon for the first time. I'm being prompted a
password to open the PDF. Where do I get the password?
Please click on "Start puzzle" to get the password.
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Location: India | Score Page - Link to score page http://logicmastersindia.com/M201201P/score.asp
Note that the score page will display partial scores, it will display only the puzzles you have solved. |
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Location: India | Breaks are allowed
From the database, I can see that some players are solving one puzzle after another in quick succession. That is not a problem, and is allowed.
But Breaks between puzzles are also allowed. Breaks can be 1 minute or 1 hour or 1 day. You don't need to solve all puzzles in a stretch.
It is clearly mentioned in the IB that "Each puzzle can be started, solved and submitted independent of others, and in any order, anytime during the week."
I hope it is not ignored or misunderstood.
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Location: India | When i start a puzzle then I am not able to end it and start another puzle.
I am struck becoz the other puzzles show cannot be started.
plz hlp |
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Location: India | sneha - 2012-01-21 9:08 AM
When i start a puzzle then I am not able to end it and start another puzle.
I am struck becoz the other puzzles show cannot be started.
plz hlp Please check your answer to the puzzle you started. It is wrong. You have to wait either a) till submit it correctly or b) for an hour (whichever is minimum) before you can start the next puzzle. |
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Location: India | Administrator - 2012-01-21 9:11 AM
sneha - 2012-01-21 9:08 AM
When i start a puzzle then I am not able to end it and start another puzle.
I am struck becoz the other puzzles show cannot be started.
plz hlp Please check your answer to the puzzle you started. It is wrong. You have to wait either a ) till submit it correctly or b ) for an hour (whichever is minimum ) before you can start the next puzzle.
Ok
Actually I did not want to solve this one but started it becoz it was the first one.
Anyways will have to wait for an hour |
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Location: India | sneha - 2012-01-21 9:13 AM
Actually I did not want to solve this one but started it becoz it was the first one.
Anyways will have to wait for an hour In that case, you can start the next puzzle now. Just refresh the submission page. |
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Location: India | Administrator - 2012-01-21 4:41 AM
[ 8 puzzles are uploaded today. 1 will be uploaded tomorrow and last one will be uploaded next day ]
Some players are getting close to finishing all 8, it looks like we should have had posted all puzzles :-) |
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Location: India | I tried hard to understand what the puzzles column (with such values as "1/1/1") means? I know it could be listing all the submission attempts ,but i am not sure as that is still a conflict in my case. I submitted only one puzzle and it shows three values! Damn i wasted lot of time on the pentomino grid. |
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Location: The Netherlands | anurag - 2012-01-21 9:08 PM
I tried hard to understand what the puzzles column (with such values as "1/1/1") means? I know it could be listing all the submission attempts ,but i am not sure as that is still a conflict in my case. I submitted only one puzzle and it shows three values! Damn i wasted lot of time on the pentomino grid.
I think it is: BONUS/CORRECT/SUBMITTED |
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Location: The Netherlands | Administrator - 2012-01-21 6:30 AM
Breaks are allowed
From the database, I can see that some players are solving one puzzle after another in quick succession. That is not a problem, and is allowed.
But Breaks between puzzles are also allowed. Breaks can be 1 minute or 1 hour or 1 day. You don't need to solve all puzzles in a stretch.
It is clearly mentioned in the IB that "Each puzzle can be started, solved and submitted independent of others, and in any order, anytime during the week."
I hope it is not ignored or misunderstood.
I hadn't planned on doing all 8 in a row. I had planned to do 2 or 3. But I was going pretty well. Every time I finished I thought "Okay, one more" till I had done them all. |
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Location: India | Greedy! ;) |
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Location: India | anurag - 2012-01-22 12:05 AM
Greedy! ;)
Well I can understand that greed. If I sped through them at that rate even I'd want another one each time :P |
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Location: India | It really feel good to complete one Marathon puzzle for the first time... :) |
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Location: India | rvarun - 2012-01-22 1:43 AM
It really feel good to complete one Marathon puzzle for the first time... :)
Keep it up mate. 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3 and so on ;) |
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Location: Turkey | I'm having an interesting experience. Decided to start with the ones marked easy, took too long on l-t-l, broke the small regions and ran out of time on my second go and I'm the fastest in tapa for now. Not bad on b&w either. Wonderful puzzles so far :) Thanks everyone for the fun! |
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Location: Canada | Curious question. I've been a lurker here doing puzzles after the fact and decided to register to try these ones during the contest. However, I have clicked to start a puzzle that I have no knowledge of and want to cancel and go to a different puzzle (namely the Braille Word Search, I accidentally started the Star Battle puzzle instead not knowing the mouseclick in that spot would start it). There seems to be no way to cancel; I either submit the correct solution or the timer is eternal. Does it end after a period of time has passed? Can the puzzle be cancelled (I won't be solving it, and looking at it now can't even place the first star)?
EDIT: Reading above this post, I see I must wait an hour. I had already tried what I knew would be a wrong submission hoping it would mark the puzzle "complete" but - obviously - it didn't. Is there any way to not have this submission count as a penalty since this puzzle was started by accident? Or are penalties only for individual puzzles - i.e. you lose 10 out of the 250 points, for example, for each wrong solution submitted for that puzzle only?
Cyclone
Edited by Cyclone 2012-01-22 5:09 AM
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Location: India | Cyclone - 2012-01-22 5:02 AM
Can the puzzle be cancelled (I won't be solving it, and looking at it now can't even place the first star)?
Cyclone
You can start next puzzle now. Refresh the submission page first.
Edited by debmohanty 2012-01-22 5:14 AM
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Location: India | Samurai Sudoku is now available. |
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Location: India | Cyclone - 2012-01-22 5:02 AM
EDIT: Reading above this post, I see I must wait an hour. I had already tried what I knew would be a wrong submission hoping it would mark the puzzle "complete" but - obviously - it didn't. Is there any way to not have this submission count as a penalty since this puzzle was started by accident? Or are penalties only for individual puzzles - i.e. you lose 10 out of the 250 points, for example, for each wrong solution submitted for that puzzle only?
Cyclone
I guess you'll get a penalty for something only if you submit it correctly in the end. |
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Location: India | nice-Puzzles.However-I'm-wondering-why-I'didn't-get-points-for-the-last-puzzle-even-after-submitting-it-correctly(it-showed-up-as-correctly-completed)
-it-correctly(it-showed-up-as-correctly-completed).Is-there-any-time-restrictions-which-I'm-not-aware-of?
e-of?
Edited by harmeet 2012-01-22 6:17 PM
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Location: India | Harmeet, Richard, Swaroop, (and others who submitted in last 2 hours),
The score page is now updated to have your latest submission counted. |
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Location: India | Graffiti Snake is now available. |
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