Indian Puzzle Championship - August 2010 Monthly Test

Logic Masters India announces the August Puzzle Test 'Broken Pieces'.

Have you enjoyed solving jigsaw puzzles (as a kid) or mechanical sudokus? Here's your chance to explore this concept into the area of puzzles and showcase your ability in joining pieces together to solve a puzzle.
The author of the puzzles are Tejal Phatak and Rohan Rao.

Contest Page

Download Instruction Booklet
Download Samurai Sudoku
Download Puzzle Booklet
Password is M201008P_JoinThePieces

The list of puzzles that appeared in the test are:

1. Black And White
2. Domino Hunt
3. Hitori
4. Irregular Sudoku
5. Loop Finder
6. Minesweeper
7. Samurai Sudoku
8. Scrabble Loop
9. Tapa
10. Tents
11. Train
12. Zigzag

Results

1. Hideaki Jo (Japan) - 140
2. Ulrich Voigt (Germany) - 130
3. Takei Daisuke (Japan) - 126
4. Shinichi Aoki (Japan) - 123
5. Kota Morinishi (Japan) - 121
6. Serkan Yurekli (Turkey) - 120
7. Nikola Zivanovic (Serbia) - 116
8. Michael Ley (Germany) - 112
9. Amit Sowani (India) - 111
10. Martin Merker (Germany) - 109

Indian participants

9. Amit Sowani (India) - 111
23. Rajesh Kumar (India) - 76
26. Rakesh Rai (India) - 72
31. Rishi Puri (India) - 61
40. Anurag Sahay (India) - 51
53. Jaipal Reddy (India) - 39
59. Macherla Kumar (India) - 32
60. Neeraj Mehrotra (India) - 31
61. Prasanna Seshadri (India) - 30
69. Anil Khosla (India) - 18

Complete Results

There were totally 75 participants.
Congrats to everyone!

Thank You all for participating! Hope you enjoyed the puzzles.
Please give me your feedback.

See you all next weekend for Evergreens II!

Article on 'Toughest Sudoku' in Mirror Newspaper

There is a one-page article on Arta Inkala's 'Toughest Sudoku' in Mumbai Mirror on 20th August, 2010. I had given it a shot last night and was able to solve it in 21 minutes using guesswork. His challenge to everyone is to find a logical path of solving it, which he says can take weeks! I had given my views and feedback.

You can read the article from the e-paper links:
Mumbai Mirror (20th August, 2010)

Pune Mirror (21st August, 2010)

Bangalore Mirror (23rd August, 2010)

Indian Sudoku Championship - August 2010 Monthly Test

Logic Masters India announces Qixi Festival Special Sudoku Test.
It was be held on 14th, 15th and 16th August (Yes, 72 hours since Qixi Festival falls on 16th August)

Download Instruction Booklet
View Points Table
Download Puzzle Booklet
Password is QiXifEstival

The sudokus that appeared in the test are:

Relay
1. Classic Sudoku

Match-Makers
1. Diagonal Sudoku
2. No Touch Sudoku
3. No Knight Step Sudoku
4. Non-Consecutive Sudoku
5. Touchy Sudoku
6. No 3 Odd/Even In A Line Sudoku
7. No Average Sudoku
8. Give Me Five Sudoku

Twin Sudoku
1. Classic Sudoku
2.. Irregular Sudoku

Results

1. Jakub Hrazdira (Czech Republic) - 770
1. Thomas Snyder (USA) - 770
3. Chen Cen (China) - 715
3. Tung-Yi Wu (Taiwan) - 715
3. Rodolphe Hurel (France) - 715
6. Nikola Zivanovic (Serbia) - 690
7. Rishi Puri (India) - 670
7. Jason Zuffranieri (USA) - 670
9. Rohan Rao (India) - 660
9. Zafer Huseyin Ergan (Turkey) - 660
9. Vincent Bertrand (Belgium) - 660
9. greenhorn (Slovakia) - 660
9. Sebastian Matschke (Germany) - 660
9. Takuya Sugimoto (Japan) - 660

Indian participants

7. Rishi Puri (India) - 670
9. Rohan Rao (India) - 660
16. Jai Bansal (India) - 605
23. Tejal Phatak (India) - 550
23. Jaipal Reddy (India) - 550
37. Sandeep (India) - 440
46. Utkaarsh Somaiya (India) - 350
47. Amit Sowani (India) - 345
51. Parijat Bansal (India) - 340
51. Prasanna Seshadri (India) - 340

Complete Results

There were totally 102 participants.
Congrats to everyone!

Indian Sudoku Championship - August 2010 Monthly Test

Logic Masters India announces the August Sudoku Monthly Test 'Sampler Platter'. Sampler Platter will feature a variety of sudoku clues all thrown together in a set of puzzles. The puzzles and designs for Sampler Platter have been created by David Millar.

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Download Puzzle Booklet
Password is illhavethesamplerplatter2010

Results

1. Jakub Ondrousek (Czech Republic) - 785
2. Hideaki Jo (Japan) - 765
3. Fred Stalder (Switzerland) - 715
4. Byron Calver (Canada) - 695
5. Don3232 (Taiwan) - 670
6. Jason Zuffranieri (USA) - 665
7. William Blatt (USA) - 660
7. Jakub Hrazdira (Czech Republic) - 660
9. Chen Cen (China) - 660
10. Taro Arimatsu (Japan) - 630
10. Kota Morinishi (Japan) - 630

Indian participants

15. Rohan Rao (India) - 570
26. Amit Sowani (India) - 485
31. Jaipal Reddy (India) - 465
43. Rakesh Rai (India) - 415
49. Harmeet Singh (India) - 380
51. Shanta Murthy (India) - 375
60. Ritesh Gupta (India) - 325
61. Tejal Phatak (India) - 320
61. Neeraj Mehrotra (India) - 320
77. Prasanna Seshadri (India) - 270

Complete Results

There were totally 119 participants.
Congrats to everyone!