Friday, August 7, 2015

Indian Puzzle Championship 2015, 9th August

About IPC 2015

The Indian Puzzle Championship 2015 will be held online on 9th Aug, 2015. Participation is free of cost and everyone is invited to participate in the event irrespective of age. There are no prerequisites/requirements for participation.
Top competitors will represent India at the World Puzzle Championship 2015 which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria in October, 2015.

Indian Puzzle Championship - 2015

Dates : 9th August

Details : http://logicmastersindia.com/2015/IPC/

INSTRUCTION BOOKLET : CLICK HERE
DISCUSSION THREAD  : CLICK HERE
P.S:-
I am looking forward to it. Hope to give my best performance this time and improve my ranking from last year. Queries like how to participate, how the competition will be conducted are all answered in discussion thread and on championship page.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Sudoku Mahabharat Finals on May 10th

With Finals lined up on 10th May in Bangalore, based on players request, following short walk-through is prepared for solving skyscraper Sudoku given in Instruction Booklet.

Discussion forum for SM finals: Click here
Instruction Booklet: Click here

Click here to get the walk-through pdf.

Best of luck to all for finals :)

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Puzzle No 129: Consecutive Sudoku

PS: Updated some Tips and Tricks in this post

A practice puzzle for upcoming SM Episode 7.
Details of which can be found here.

Rules:

Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, orthogonally adjacent cells containing consecutive numbers are separated by bars. All possible bars are marked. 

Theme: Mini Stairs

Puzzle:

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Tutorial to solve Marathon - Nurikabe

First of all, thank you to all for your feedback and support. It will surely help in future creations. As now the marathon is over, i would like to discuss the tricks behind the solution. The final puzzle selected for Marathon was 2nd version of what i created first. The first version was very tough and so had to modify it. I will upload that version soon after it's tested. But for right now let's move on to the solving steps. Apologies for any grammatical mistakes or bad image quality. But i have tried to keep it simple and good as far as i can.
Firstly here is the actual puzzle,


The solution tutorial has been uploaded to following link in pdf format,
please click here to access it.

Thank you once again !!
:) :)

Friday, March 13, 2015

Sudoku Mahabharat Episode 7 by Logic Masters India (LMI)

Episode 7: Converse Round

Discussion Forum  : Click here
Competition Page  : Click here
Instruction Booklet : Click here

Finally a long awaited moment for me, where I am the author for this round. This is the last episode of long going Sudoku Mahabharat started in September-2014. So pull up your sleeves and get ready for one last battle to make your place into offline finals which will be held on 10th May 2015 in Bangalore. For more details on Sudoku Mahabharat click here.

Although you can go out in the internet world and get as many Sudokus as you can but i am also sharing some of the links for your practice. Also sharing some of the tricks to tackle some of types appearing in this test.

Added some new tricks on 19th march 2015 (it's in red color)

Tips and Tricks: 

1) The foremost and biggest tip is don't forget what is the name of this round. Pun not intended.
2) Average Sudoku - Remember since it's average and only integers are allowed, numbers on both side of line will be of same type. i.e. Either both numbers will be even or both will be odd. Also observe 1 and 9 can never be on the lines (1 and 6 for 6x6). 
3) Kropki Sudoku - Black dot only possible pairs are 1-2,2-4,4-8,3-6. White dot pairs are 1-2,2-3,3-4,4-5,5-6,6-7,7-8,8-9. If you have series of 2 black dots then only possible sets are 1-2-4 and 2-4-8. And the only 3 consecutive black dot series is 1-2-4-8. Remember order of these sets can be either way. Also 1-2 can contain either dot (just a reminder). Do not restrict to this as for e.g. if dots series are in L shaped then it can have repeated digits as well like 4-2-4 etc. If you have 4 black dots in the 3*3 box entirely, or in a row or in a column then remaining 3 cells (that do not share dot) will contain digits 5,7,9.
3) Consecutive - Try to look out for big series.
4) XV - V pairs are 3-2,1-4. X pairs are 6-4,7-3,8-2,9-1. Clearly 5 doesn't fit in any of these so now you know what to watch out for.

Practice Puzzle Links:

Anti knight:
http://swaroopg92.blogspot.com/2014/08/puzzle-no-98-anti-knight-sudoku.html
http://rohanrao.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti%20Knight%20Sudoku
https://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/category/antiknight/
Average Sudoku Variants: (Note: these are variants and not the actual Average Sudoku rules used in the test - but will provide you with good practice for this type)
http://swaroopg92.blogspot.com/search/label/Horizontal%20Average%20Sudoku
http://puzzleparasite.blogspot.com/2013/03/daily-league-sudoku-10-average-sudoku.html
Average:
http://rohanrao.blogspot.com/search/label/Average%20Sudoku
XV Sudoku:
https://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/category/xv/
http://rohanrao.blogspot.com/search/label/XV%20Sudoku
Kropki:
http://swaroopg92.blogspot.com/2011/12/kropki-sudoku-rules-1-rules-of-classic.html
http://rohanrao.blogspot.com/search/label/Kropki%20Sudoku
http://www.funwithpuzzles.com/2010/05/dots-sudokukropki-sudoku-ds1.html
https://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/category/kropki/
Consecutive:
http://rohanrao.blogspot.com/search/label/Consecutive%20Sudoku
https://prasannaseshadri.wordpress.com/category/consecutive/

General links: (Average Sudoku especially along with few other types as well)
http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/dl.asp?attachmentid=148&view=1
http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=mock14 (IB and PB)

Well once again, these links are just glimpse of what is available out there.
Hope you all will enjoy the Sudoku's.
Have fun :) 
Good Luck !!! :)

Friday, March 6, 2015

Puzzle No 128: Classic Sudoku

This is my 26th Sudoku contribution to:
Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. 

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:
Enjoy :)

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Puzzle Marathon: LMI contest 6th March - 15th March


Discussion Forum: Click here
Competition Page: Click here
Instruction Booklet: Click here

I am also one of the co-author for this Marathon. At the end of contest it will be revealed who created which puzzle. But till then have fun. Contest is open for 10 days.

Good Luck !!! :)


Sunday, February 1, 2015

Non Puzzle Post...

Hello everyone,

I am on break for a while before i resume again posting on my blog. But there are few competitions which i have contributed which will come up in coming months on Logic Masters India. So i will be posting those news as they come up. But till then you can always enjoy solving puzzles which are present on the blog.

Enjoy :)

Friday, January 16, 2015

Puzzle No 127: Renban Groups Sudoku

This is my 25th Sudoku contribution to:
Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen

Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally, shaded cells inside each 3*3 box contains consecutive digits.

Theme: 2015

Difficulty: Easy

Puzzle:

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Puzzle No 126: Diagonal Sudoku (# 2nd Puzzle in 2015)

This is my 24th Sudoku contribution to: ( #2nd in 2015)
Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen
Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9.  Main Diagonals (marked for clarification) also contain numbers 1-9.

Theme: Tetro / Pentominoes 

Difficulty: Medium

Sudoku:

Friday, January 2, 2015

Puzzle No 125: Windoku (# 1st Post in 2015)

Note: Earlier posted puzzle was wrong. There was a typo. Now it has been fixed. R2C8 was 4 instead of 9. Below image is updated one now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Here goes my 1st Sudoku on blog in the year 2015. This is 1st Windoku Puzzle on this blog. Hope you all will like it. Enjoy Solving. Happy New Year once again to all :)

This is my 23rd Sudoku contribution to: ( #1st in 2015)
Daily League! The League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen
Remember that you can solve this puzzle from the League  online on the Sudokucup Guest League page with a 24 hr delay.

Rules:
Place numbers in the grid such that each row,column and 3*3 box contain the numbers 1-9. Additionally the shaded 3*3 boxes must also contain the digits 1-9.

Theme: Happy New Year ( H n Y )

Difficulty: Medium

Puzzle: