LMI - Puzzle Ramayan & IPC Qualifiers : September - March

[Prasanna16391]

Logic Masters India invites everyone to participate in Puzzle Ramayan, a series of Puzzle contests. Similar to Sudoku Mahabharat, each contest will have a certain theme to it that categorizes the puzzles appearing in the contest. There will be five puzzle types in each round, with multiple puzzles of each type, along with a variant for two of the types. The difficulty will be lower than the monthly contests and length of each contest is of 90 minutes.

Here are the dates, for each of the rounds.

Classics - 05-07 Sep
Numbers - 26-28 Sep
Evergreens - 30 Oct-1 Nov
Region - 28-30 Nov
Snake - 26-28 Dec
Shading - 23-25 Jan
Loops - 27-29 Feb
Placement - 26-28 Mar

Link for Puzzle Ramayan 2015-16 : http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2015-16pr.asp
Note that these rounds will serve as qualifiers for Indian Puzzle Championship 2016.

[Prasanna16391]

Link for Classic round that starts tonight and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201509/

[Prasanna16391]

Link for Numbers round that starts tonight and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201509_2/

[PuzzleScot]

A good showing from the Brits! We were only outnumbered by India, USA and Japan. (Results)

Well done to James, Neil and David on finishing in the top 20, with Tom just behind... Couldn't have picked a better WPC team!

A very good showing from Steve, Emma, Saul (Glasman) and Mark.
Then a very tight pack of Eva, Paul, Adam and myself separated by 0.5 points, with Heather, Liane & Mark right behind us.
Then Anthea.

All good

[edit: How did Hideaki do the whole lot in 40 minutes?!]

[david mcneill]

First thing to say is what a phenomenal effort by Hideaki.

Yes. Great showing by the UK. The theme was likely to suit the Sudoku specialists. I spent ages on the ABC skyscrapers. Loved the Kakuro, especially the Kropkuro.

A good warm-up. Now, what's going to appear in that instruction booklet?

[kiwijam]

I spent ages on the ABC skyscrapers. Loved the Kakuro, especially the Kropkuro.

Yeah, I was the other way around. Found the ABC skyscrapers fairly quick.
Of course it turns out the fastest way to solve it is to just open up the last page of the instruction book, but that was too unexpected for me!

[Prasanna16391]

Link for Evergreens round that starts tonight and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201510/

[detuned]

A bit of an odd mix, but a fun test nevertheless!

[drsteve]

Loved that round - nearly got the hard magnets but found the Hashi near inpenetrable for some reason.

[puzzlemad]

I've got one puzzle left unsolved at the moment - the third arrows - no idea how to start that one!

[detuned]

Liane:

PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER_SHOW PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER:

The middle cell can only be pointed at by 4 possible arrows - middle row and middle column. The logic is then a little bit involved by considering which of the 2s are pointed at, but generally the puzzle flows quite nicely from that initial break in

[Prasanna16391]

Link for Regions round that starts tonight and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201511/

[PuzzleScot]

Apparently the deadline has been extended by 24 hours.
http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/foru ... ?pid=20172

That'll give Neil and Tom (and Liane) a chance to beat me

[PuzzleScot]

James is top Brit again...
Stellar performance from 'masonjason' (Saul Glasman(?)) too!

At the half-way mark, I was convinced I was going to finish this...
In the end, I couldn't get the larger of the 4 galaxies out. Aborted, and went on to do the 4/5 galaxies (nice!) and the lower point ones
Should have kept going with the last area division - finished it 2 minutes after the deadline. That would have put me a very satisfying 4th in the UK ranks.
Good fun...

[puzzlemad]

Apparently the deadline has been extended by 24 hours.
http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/foru ... ?pid=20172

That'll give Neil and Tom (and Liane) a chance to beat me

I'd forgotten all about this one. Been up to my eyes with work. Will give it a go later.

[emma]

I completed my last one about half a minute after time was up. Wish I'd done it in the same room as the printer- it might have made all the difference.

[debmohanty]

Link for Snakes round that has started and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201512/

[kiwijam]

Ooh well done AJ, top UK entrant for the Snakes round.
I was happy with how I went, not naturally fond of Snakes but I'm getting better at mixing logic and guessing while doing them.
You may have noticed I'm labelled as New Zealand on LMI currently, I'm trying to encourage some others in my office to take up the hobby but with small success.
So for the moment it will be easier to top the UK standings!
Now to do some Tapas...

[puzzlemad]

You may have noticed I'm labelled as New Zealand on LMI currently, I'm trying to encourage some others in my office to take up the hobby but with small success.

I did wonder. Good luck with encouraging them to take part.

[debmohanty]

Link for Shading round that has started and is open through the weekend till Tuesday:
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201601/

[Prasanna16391]

Link for Loops round that starts soon and is open through the weekend :
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/201602/
The Instruction booklet also has some basic steps for approaching the types appearing on the contest.

[Plucky]

Damn it, I thought I'd actually done half-decent on one for a change [remaining text removed! - Admin.]

[PuzzleScot]

NEVER DISCUSS ACTIVE COMPS IN ANY WAY!

Thank-you.

[Prasanna16391]

If you do want to discuss it, we have a contest-specific restricted forum - http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/foru ... p?tid=1236

[GarethMoore]

Just to add to what Alan and Prasanna said above, if you post on the LMI contest-specific forum then your post will show up immediately for people who have already entered the competition, but won't show up for anyone else until the competition is over. But apart from on that special LMI forum, since people are competing for places then people avoid any public discussion until the competition is closed. The reason is that it might give an advantage (or disadvantage, if misleading!) to those who are yet to take part.