Thread - !!! SPEED SIXES !!!

@ 2010-06-05 8:41 PM (#694 - in reply to #693) (#694) Top

debmohanty

Country : India

debmohanty posted @ 2010-06-05 8:41 PM

adityasaraf007 - 2010-06-05 8:01 PM

I am still not able to get it. I have understood that the rule for distances will only be applicable for the shaded cells.

The problem is with this sentence. "Distances between numbers are measured from the centres of the cells." I am not able to interpret the meaning of this sentence.

How do you measure the distance between two numbers or two cells?
for example distance between R1C1 and R3C5 is sqrt of (2*2+4*4)

@ 2010-06-05 9:12 PM (#695 - in reply to #694) (#695) Top

adityasaraf007

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Country : India

adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-05 9:12 PM

debmohanty - 2010-06-05 8:41 PM

How do you measure the distance between two numbers or two cells?
for example distance between R1C1 and R3C5 is sqrt of (2*2+4*4)

Now, its clear. Thanks for your reply.
I thought to calculate the distance, we need to follow the path of the cells.

@ 2010-06-06 9:40 AM (#696 - in reply to #695) (#696) Top

vopani

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Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-06 9:40 AM

Please take some time out and rate the puzzles after you finish the test.
Well, if you're not upto rating '42' puzzles, you can definitely give me some feedback here itself :-)

Tejal/Rohan.

@ 2010-06-06 10:37 PM (#698 - in reply to #606) (#698) Top

radekivv

Posts: 13

Country : United States

radekivv posted @ 2010-06-06 10:37 PM

Thumbs up to the organizers! Very nice puzzles!

I enjoy this competition a lot. On the puzzles that I finished the score corresponded to their difficulty prety well. On one or two puzzles I had to guess (or at least it was faster than trying to come with some strange technique

). I am definitely looking forward to the next competition. Thanks.

Edited by radekivv 2010-06-06 10:39 PM

@ 2010-06-06 11:21 PM (#699 - in reply to #696) (#699) Top

skywalker

Posts: 42

Country : Serbia

skywalker posted @ 2010-06-06 11:21 PM

Very nice set of puzzles. A lot of different types and difficulties.
Battleship, DescriptivePair, 3rd & 5th surprise, Irregular are my favourites from this contest.
Congratulations to puzzle makers, excellent job.

Branko

@ 2010-06-07 12:28 AM (#701 - in reply to #606) (#701) Top

vopani

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Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 12:28 AM

Thanks a lot Radek and Branko.
'We' are glad you enjoyed the puzzles :-)

Tejal Phatak / Rohan Rao.

@ 2010-06-07 1:35 AM (#703 - in reply to #606) (#703) Top

parsurulz

Posts: 1

Country : India

parsurulz posted @ 2010-06-07 1:35 AM

Hello everyone . I am new to this site. This is the first time i have played the puzzle. although my score is 198 , i enjoyed a lot.

@ 2010-06-07 9:20 AM (#706 - in reply to #606) (#706) Top

vopani

Posts: 739

Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 9:20 AM

Congrats to Nikola Zivanovic for topping the test. An exceptional performance by finishing all puzzles in 129mins.
Congrats to Hideaki Jo too, for being the only other participant who completed all puzzles. He saw soo many '6's, he decided to get 6mins time bonus too ;-)
Congrats to Jakub Ondrousek for solving 40/42. He made silly mistakes else he too wouldv'e got time bonus.

All in all, thanks to all participants for participating in the test and hope you enjoyed the puzzles. Do rate the puzzles or give me feedback here.

Looking forward for more in future.

Tejal/Rohan.

@ 2010-06-07 10:39 AM (#709 - in reply to #606) (#709) Top

adityasaraf007

Posts: 45

Country : India

adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-07 10:39 AM

This test was so long for 166 mins, and in our area we have frequent loadshedding. I knew that there would be loadshedding during the mock. The electricity went off after about 80 mins from the start of test, and came back just after 10 mins of the finish.

Had I been able to submit the answers, my score would have been 803.

Thanks to Tejal and Rohan for this test. It was lot of fun solving the 6*6 puzzles.

I would like to make one request. Please keep the duration of the tests short - maybe around 90 mins. Otherwise I am sure I would miss to submit the answers of the coming mocks as well.

@ 2010-06-07 11:35 AM (#711 - in reply to #709) (#711) Top

Nikola

Posts: 103

Country : Serbia

Nikola posted @ 2010-06-07 11:35 AM

Rohan and Tejal, bravo for the puzzles! I solved all in 115 minutes and spent 14 minutes more on typing. I can not wait of July test.

@ 2010-06-07 2:12 PM (#712 - in reply to #606) (#712) Top

vopani

Posts: 739

Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 2:12 PM

Thank You very much parsurulz/adityasaraf/Nikola.
Nikola, it was a fantastic performance by you. I was expecting at least one person to finish within 135mins (including typing answers) and you proved me correct :-)

@Aditya
This test was longer than usual, but it was based on a nice theme and suited well. Future tests will definitely be of lesser time.

@ 2010-06-07 2:23 PM (#713 - in reply to #606) (#713) Top

David McNeill

Posts: 63

Country : United Kingdom

David McNeill posted @ 2010-06-07 2:23 PM

Phenomenal performance by Nikola. I'm glad I competed even though there wasn't enough time left. Some of the puzzles took a long time to solve. Battleship Sudoku was tough, as expected. However, I also spent a very long time on Sequence Sudoku. Anyone got any nice logic for solving this one?

Hope to rate the puzzles soon.

Thanks Rohan. Good fun.

David McNeill.

@ 2010-06-07 2:31 PM (#714 - in reply to #606) (#714) Top

Administrator

Country : India

Administrator posted @ 2010-06-07 2:31 PM

Aditya,
The future Monthly tests will not be this long.
We'll be having max 120 minutes.
Top solvers should be able to solve most puzzles in 80 minutes, and average solvers in 120 minutes.

@ 2010-06-07 2:50 PM (#716 - in reply to #714) (#716) Top

vopani

Posts: 739

Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 2:50 PM

@David
Thanks a lot :-)
Sequence was so easy! (The 6-cell sequence on the left has to have R2C1 = '1'. If you put R2C1 = '6', you will get stuck with R6C1. For the other 6-cell sequence, R5C5 cannot be '6' since '6' will be present either in R5C2 or R5C3. So, R5C5 is '1'. Then finish it! )

@All
Solution Booklet has been uploaded. You can download and check the solutions.

@ 2010-06-07 4:30 PM (#717 - in reply to #716) (#717) Top

Fred76

Posts: 337

Country : Switzerland

Fred76 posted @ 2010-06-07 4:30 PM

Thanks for this wonderful tournament !

It was a very nice concept. You had to know lot of variants to be in a good place.
Perhaps it was a little bit too long, but it was interesting to see how I can continue to be concentrated after 2 hours.

I'm glad to see so many participants and very happy to be in the top 10. I should have better prepared some puzzles to be in my top form (like perfect cube, perfect square and distances sudoku, which were not so tough, but I could not solve them during test).

It was interesting to see some tough 6*6 puzzles, and I like the fact there was a wide range of difficulty.

Thanks !

Fred

@ 2010-06-07 7:55 PM (#719 - in reply to #606) (#719) Top

deu

Posts: 69

Country : Japan

deu posted @ 2010-06-07 7:55 PM

Thanks for a great contest!

I have a question about "EQUAL SUM SUDOKU" in Group2.
Solution in "Solution Booklet" seems invalid since
3+3=2+4 holds in R4R5C2C3. Does this puzzle have a solution?

Hideaki Jo

@ 2010-06-07 10:25 PM (#720 - in reply to #719) (#720) Top

vopani

Posts: 739

Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 10:25 PM

Thanks a lot Fred/Hideaki.

@Hideaki
Yes, I missed the 'X' where you mentioned. Thanks for informing.
My apologies. I hope it didn't cause you (and others) too much trouble.

Rohan.

@ 2010-06-07 10:41 PM (#721 - in reply to #720) (#721) Top

adityasaraf007

Posts: 45

Country : India

adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-07 10:41 PM

I don't have any other problem with longer Mocks. It is only that in our locality there is frequent load-shedding, and I don't have a laptop to overcome that problem.

@ 2010-06-07 11:18 PM (#722 - in reply to #606) (#722) Top

neerajmehrotra

Posts: 328

Country : India

neerajmehrotra posted @ 2010-06-07 11:18 PM

I can only say that this was one of the best mocks so far.............CHEERS!!!!!!

@ 2010-06-08 2:08 PM (#724 - in reply to #606) (#724) Top

rakesh_rai

Posts: 774

Country : India

rakesh_rai posted @ 2010-06-08 2:08 PM

Most of the puzzles were quite challenging and congratulations to the authors for coming up with nice ideas. Of course, the duration was a bit longish and did test "human concentration levels".

@ 2010-06-08 11:01 PM (#728 - in reply to #606) (#728) Top

vopani

Posts: 739

Country : India

vopani posted @ 2010-06-08 11:01 PM

@Neeraj
Thank You very much! :-)

@Rakesh
You chose the wrong time :P (But yes, it was longer than a normal test)

@ 2010-06-09 4:04 PM (#731 - in reply to #606) (#731) Top

Tejal Phatak

Posts: 81

Country : India

Tejal Phatak posted @ 2010-06-09 4:04 PM

Glad to know you all enjoyed the test! :)


	@ 2010-06-05 8:41 PM (#694 - in reply to #693) (#694) Top
debmohanty Country : India	debmohanty posted @ 2010-06-05 8:41 PM adityasaraf007 - 2010-06-05 8:01 PM I am still not able to get it. I have understood that the rule for distances will only be applicable for the shaded cells. The problem is with this sentence. "Distances between numbers are measured from the centres of the cells." I am not able to interpret the meaning of this sentence. How do you measure the distance between two numbers or two cells? for example distance between R1C1 and R3C5 is sqrt of (22+44)
	@ 2010-06-05 9:12 PM (#695 - in reply to #694) (#695) Top
adityasaraf007 Posts: 45 Country : India	adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-05 9:12 PM debmohanty - 2010-06-05 8:41 PM adityasaraf007 - 2010-06-05 8:01 PM I am still not able to get it. I have understood that the rule for distances will only be applicable for the shaded cells. The problem is with this sentence. "Distances between numbers are measured from the centres of the cells." I am not able to interpret the meaning of this sentence. How do you measure the distance between two numbers or two cells? for example distance between R1C1 and R3C5 is sqrt of (22+44) Now, its clear. Thanks for your reply. I thought to calculate the distance, we need to follow the path of the cells.
	@ 2010-06-06 9:40 AM (#696 - in reply to #695) (#696) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-06 9:40 AM Please take some time out and rate the puzzles after you finish the test. Well, if you're not upto rating '42' puzzles, you can definitely give me some feedback here itself :-) Tejal/Rohan.
	@ 2010-06-06 10:37 PM (#698 - in reply to #606) (#698) Top
radekivv Posts: 13 Country : United States	radekivv posted @ 2010-06-06 10:37 PM Thumbs up to the organizers! Very nice puzzles! I enjoy this competition a lot. On the puzzles that I finished the score corresponded to their difficulty prety well. On one or two puzzles I had to guess (or at least it was faster than trying to come with some strange technique ). I am definitely looking forward to the next competition. Thanks. Edited by radekivv 2010-06-06 10:39 PM
	@ 2010-06-06 11:21 PM (#699 - in reply to #696) (#699) Top
skywalker Posts: 42 Country : Serbia	skywalker posted @ 2010-06-06 11:21 PM Very nice set of puzzles. A lot of different types and difficulties. Battleship, DescriptivePair, 3rd & 5th surprise, Irregular are my favourites from this contest. Congratulations to puzzle makers, excellent job. Branko
	@ 2010-06-07 12:28 AM (#701 - in reply to #606) (#701) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 12:28 AM Thanks a lot Radek and Branko. 'We' are glad you enjoyed the puzzles :-) Tejal Phatak / Rohan Rao.
	@ 2010-06-07 1:35 AM (#703 - in reply to #606) (#703) Top
parsurulz Posts: 1 Country : India	parsurulz posted @ 2010-06-07 1:35 AM Hello everyone . I am new to this site. This is the first time i have played the puzzle. although my score is 198 , i enjoyed a lot.
	@ 2010-06-07 9:20 AM (#706 - in reply to #606) (#706) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 9:20 AM Congrats to Nikola Zivanovic for topping the test. An exceptional performance by finishing all puzzles in 129mins. Congrats to Hideaki Jo too, for being the only other participant who completed all puzzles. He saw soo many '6's, he decided to get 6mins time bonus too ;-) Congrats to Jakub Ondrousek for solving 40/42. He made silly mistakes else he too wouldv'e got time bonus. All in all, thanks to all participants for participating in the test and hope you enjoyed the puzzles. Do rate the puzzles or give me feedback here. Looking forward for more in future. Tejal/Rohan.
	@ 2010-06-07 10:39 AM (#709 - in reply to #606) (#709) Top
adityasaraf007 Posts: 45 Country : India	adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-07 10:39 AM This test was so long for 166 mins, and in our area we have frequent loadshedding. I knew that there would be loadshedding during the mock. The electricity went off after about 80 mins from the start of test, and came back just after 10 mins of the finish. Had I been able to submit the answers, my score would have been 803. Thanks to Tejal and Rohan for this test. It was lot of fun solving the 6*6 puzzles. I would like to make one request. Please keep the duration of the tests short - maybe around 90 mins. Otherwise I am sure I would miss to submit the answers of the coming mocks as well.
	@ 2010-06-07 11:35 AM (#711 - in reply to #709) (#711) Top
Nikola Posts: 103 Country : Serbia	Nikola posted @ 2010-06-07 11:35 AM Rohan and Tejal, bravo for the puzzles! I solved all in 115 minutes and spent 14 minutes more on typing. I can not wait of July test.
	@ 2010-06-07 2:12 PM (#712 - in reply to #606) (#712) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 2:12 PM Thank You very much parsurulz/adityasaraf/Nikola. Nikola, it was a fantastic performance by you. I was expecting at least one person to finish within 135mins (including typing answers) and you proved me correct :-) @Aditya This test was longer than usual, but it was based on a nice theme and suited well. Future tests will definitely be of lesser time.
	@ 2010-06-07 2:23 PM (#713 - in reply to #606) (#713) Top
David McNeill Posts: 63 Country : United Kingdom	David McNeill posted @ 2010-06-07 2:23 PM Phenomenal performance by Nikola. I'm glad I competed even though there wasn't enough time left. Some of the puzzles took a long time to solve. Battleship Sudoku was tough, as expected. However, I also spent a very long time on Sequence Sudoku. Anyone got any nice logic for solving this one? Hope to rate the puzzles soon. Thanks Rohan. Good fun. David McNeill.
	@ 2010-06-07 2:31 PM (#714 - in reply to #606) (#714) Top
Administrator Country : India	Administrator posted @ 2010-06-07 2:31 PM Aditya, The future Monthly tests will not be this long. We'll be having max 120 minutes. Top solvers should be able to solve most puzzles in 80 minutes, and average solvers in 120 minutes.
	@ 2010-06-07 2:50 PM (#716 - in reply to #714) (#716) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 2:50 PM @David Thanks a lot :-) Sequence was so easy! (The 6-cell sequence on the left has to have R2C1 = '1'. If you put R2C1 = '6', you will get stuck with R6C1. For the other 6-cell sequence, R5C5 cannot be '6' since '6' will be present either in R5C2 or R5C3. So, R5C5 is '1'. Then finish it! ) @All Solution Booklet has been uploaded. You can download and check the solutions.
	@ 2010-06-07 4:30 PM (#717 - in reply to #716) (#717) Top
Fred76 Posts: 337 Country : Switzerland	Fred76 posted @ 2010-06-07 4:30 PM Thanks for this wonderful tournament ! It was a very nice concept. You had to know lot of variants to be in a good place. Perhaps it was a little bit too long, but it was interesting to see how I can continue to be concentrated after 2 hours. I'm glad to see so many participants and very happy to be in the top 10. I should have better prepared some puzzles to be in my top form (like perfect cube, perfect square and distances sudoku, which were not so tough, but I could not solve them during test). It was interesting to see some tough 6*6 puzzles, and I like the fact there was a wide range of difficulty. Thanks ! Fred
	@ 2010-06-07 7:55 PM (#719 - in reply to #606) (#719) Top
deu Posts: 69 Country : Japan	deu posted @ 2010-06-07 7:55 PM Thanks for a great contest! I have a question about "EQUAL SUM SUDOKU" in Group2. Solution in "Solution Booklet" seems invalid since 3+3=2+4 holds in R4R5C2C3. Does this puzzle have a solution? Hideaki Jo
	@ 2010-06-07 10:25 PM (#720 - in reply to #719) (#720) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-07 10:25 PM Thanks a lot Fred/Hideaki. @Hideaki Yes, I missed the 'X' where you mentioned. Thanks for informing. My apologies. I hope it didn't cause you (and others) too much trouble. Rohan.
	@ 2010-06-07 10:41 PM (#721 - in reply to #720) (#721) Top
adityasaraf007 Posts: 45 Country : India	adityasaraf007 posted @ 2010-06-07 10:41 PM I don't have any other problem with longer Mocks. It is only that in our locality there is frequent load-shedding, and I don't have a laptop to overcome that problem.
	@ 2010-06-07 11:18 PM (#722 - in reply to #606) (#722) Top
neerajmehrotra Posts: 328 Country : India	neerajmehrotra posted @ 2010-06-07 11:18 PM I can only say that this was one of the best mocks so far.............CHEERS!!!!!!
	@ 2010-06-08 2:08 PM (#724 - in reply to #606) (#724) Top
rakesh_rai Posts: 774 Country : India	rakesh_rai posted @ 2010-06-08 2:08 PM Most of the puzzles were quite challenging and congratulations to the authors for coming up with nice ideas. Of course, the duration was a bit longish and did test "human concentration levels".
	@ 2010-06-08 11:01 PM (#728 - in reply to #606) (#728) Top
vopani Posts: 739 Country : India	vopani posted @ 2010-06-08 11:01 PM @Neeraj Thank You very much! :-) @Rakesh You chose the wrong time :P (But yes, it was longer than a normal test)
	@ 2010-06-09 4:04 PM (#731 - in reply to #606) (#731) Top
Tejal Phatak Posts: 81 Country : India	Tejal Phatak posted @ 2010-06-09 4:04 PM Glad to know you all enjoyed the test! :)