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Sudokucup 4

The 4th Sudokucup was held on 19th-20th June, 2010.
The author of the puzzles is Nikola Zivanovic.

Download Instruction Booklet
Download Puzzle Booklet
Password is IQEM71!YWU45D9B?

The list of sudokus that appeared in the test are:

1. Classic Sudoku
2. Classic Sudoku
3. Odd Sudoku
4. Blocks Sudoku
5. Irregular Sudoku
6. Diagonal Sudoku
7. Extra Region Sudoku
8. Calculoku
9. Laminate Sudoku
10. Hundred Sudoku
11. Between 1 And 9 Sudoku
12. Surprise Sudoku (Poetry Sudoku)
13. Scrabble Sudoku
14. Equalizer Sudoku
15. Toroidal Sudoku

Results

1. Thomas Snyder (USA) - 300 (00:53)
2. Jan Mrozowski (Poland) - 300 (01:23)
3. Jan Novotny (Czech Republic) - 300 (01:29)
4. Daniel Scott (USA) - 300 (01:31)
5. Jakub Ondrousek (Czech Republic) - 300 (01:35)
6. Hideaki Jo (Japan) - 300 (01:38)
7. Jason Zuffranieri (USA) - 300 (01:38)
8. Michael Ley (Germany) - 300 (01:39)
9. Jim Schneider (USA) - 300 (01:40)
10. Jakub Hrazdira (Czech Republic) - 300 (01:43)
11. Kota Morinishi (Japan) - 300 (01:46)
12. Minfang Lin (China) - 300 (01:46)
13. William Blatt (USA) - 300 (01:50)
14. Krzysztof Foszcz (Poland) - 300 (01:51)
15. Jonathan Rivet (USA) - 300 (01:56)
16. Gulce Ozkutuk (Turkey) - 300 (01:59)

Indian participants

23. Rohan Rao (India) - 268
32. Tarun Bisoniya (India) - 254
62. Rajesh Kumar (India) - 208
66. Rakesh Rai (India) - 196
76. Jaipal Reddy (India) - 187
111. Neeraj Mehrotra (India) - 155
186. Hiren Patel (India) - 110
197. Kailash HD (India) - 104
218. Tejal Phatak (India) - 90
255. Teja PVK (India) - 65

Complete Results

There were totally 340 participants.
Congrats to everyone!

4 comments:

Rohan Rao said...

Great puzzles Nikola, was total fun solving them!

I should've completed the set in 01:58, but due to a silly mistake (and a bit of drowsiness), I lost out the big 32-points.

Congrats to organisers, and looking forward for more in future.

Neeraj said...

I feel sorry for u Rohan......u cud have got perfect 300.......anyways there is always a next time........ I am happy with my performance improved a lot this time.......last time i was rank 253 in sudokucup 3...this time 111.....

Nikola Živanović said...

Rohan, it's a pity for you, almost 300.

I am honoured that I got a chance to make the puzzles for such a big number of people from all over the world. Also, I am pleased that many of them liked my puzzles.
One of my goals was that even less experienced solvers feel a satisfaction when they solve 2-3 puzzles more than usually.

Rohan Rao said...

@Neeraj
Part of life :-)

@Nikola
I figured the intention of sudokucup 4 was to keep it simple, easy and fun and for that the puzzles were just perfect!