| User-created puzzles |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.04.24 07:45:00
Looking forward to see best personal time.
Yes I can see that average solving times will tend to be too high, since user puzzles are not competitive (and should not be). The # of Solvers is already giving a good indication of the difficulty of user puzzles. |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.04.29 04:10:58
Quote: Originally Posted by m2e How about a "Show unsolved puzzles", cos there already about 6 pages worth to scroll through! |
Also would it be possible to add Shading in the Puzzle Designer page? This would give more creative power to the designers to compose nice figure.
Foilman, Thanks for all the work you did to add the User Puzzles feature in the site, it is appreciated.
Btw, I recommend using shading when doing my puzzles, as the completed puzzle looks so much better in color. Also there is a lot of color deductions in puzzles filled with Two's. |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.05.06 05:13:54
For Naivoj,
I think #100 is much more harder then #105.
#100:
http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Naivoj)_100
#105:
http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Naivoj)_105
Last edited by Jankonyex - 2007.05.06 05:18:33 |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.05.06 23:41:14
Quote: Originally Posted by jankonyex For Naivoj,I think #100 is much more harder then #105. |
For me #100 requires only one exploration, as with inside/outside paths deductions almost everything is forced. After your posting I look closer to #105, and find out it is easier then I originally though: #105 also only requires one exploration but a shorter one. So I now think that #105 is similar in difficulty, but a bit easier than #100. A top solver like you makes more deductions than the average Kwontom solver for whom #105 might be harder. In a couple of days we will see which of the 2 puzzles has more solvers.
Btw my apologies for breaking several days ago your puzzle listed below, as I did not understand your symmetrical restriction rule at first.
Do you consider the following an appropriate(symmetrical wise) alternative solution; It is rotationally symmetrical (4 times); Note that the 4 "towers" can be longer or shorter creating more alternative solutions.
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Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.05.07 08:43:44
Quote: Originally Posted by naivoj T...] |
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Rebes
Kwon-Tom Fan
Puzzles: 97
Best Total: 1h 44m 7s | Posted - 2007.05.09 17:31:58
Naivoj:
Very nice on the zeros and ones!
I spent a while looking for an alternate solution afterwards, but couldn't find any...
R! |
Para
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1923
Best Total: 19m 28s | Posted - 2007.05.09 19:21:14
[edit] Yes a big hassle to check alternative solutions.
Better like this?
Last edited by Para - 2007.05.10 09:44:18 |
Rebes
Kwon-Tom Fan
Puzzles: 97
Best Total: 1h 44m 7s | Posted - 2007.05.09 20:58:24
Shhh! Don't ruin the fun in it 
R! |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.05.09 23:34:17
Quote: Originally Posted by rebes Love doing these puzzles! Is there some way you can add a discussion to go along with each, so we can comment on the puzzles... and make it so this is only visible if you've completed the puzzle so no hints are revealed? |
Quote: Originally Posted by rebes Shhh! Don't ruin the fun in it |
- Where X should probably be in the 2-7 days range.
Last edited by Naivoj - 2007.05.09 23:35:34 |
procrastinator
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1083
Best Total: 12m 56s | Posted - 2007.05.10 04:17:26
Quote: Originally Posted by naivoj Foilman would it be possible to include in the protected puzzle drop down list of the "Post New Topic" page, your solved user puzzles of the last X days. |
I think that'd be overkill. Since we're not competing on time, it only spoils things for the person reading the comment, so let's just make sure we mark our posts/threads as spoilers. Personally, I do the new user puzzles before reading the forum anyway.
Minor spoiler for Naivoj's Zeroes and Ones:
I think most people would just skim over the "distraction" comment. If they hadn't done the puzzle it would read as "irrelevance" rather than "misdirection". Perhaps a canny few would remember April Fool's Day. |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.05.10 05:13:50
Quote: Originally Posted by procrastinator Since we're not competing on time, it only spoils things for the person reading the comment, so let's just make sure we mark our posts/threads as spoilers. |
Obviously I made puzzle #86 for fun, so nothing is really a spoiler here  |
PuzzleLover
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1033
Best Total: 38m 17s | Posted - 2007.05.11 01:41:32
Woo hoo! I'm the first solver of a Jankonynex puzzle!!! (# 115) Granted that's it only rated Normal and his Hard ones stump me, but it still feels like an accomplishment |
Naivoj
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 314
Best Total: 33m 50s | Posted - 2007.05.11 05:13:46
To Jankonyex,
Congratulations on the design of user puzzle #117 (Jcsl51). Truly impressive! All 1’s except for one 3; Half of the rows have no clue at all, including the bottom row (which makes it harder); 4 rows are totally filled with 1’s; Empty and packed rows alternate; Plus it is really hard, at least for me: it took me 2 long separate sessions. In the first one I felt I explored all the possibilities, but each one led to an impossibility. In the 2nd session I was happy to discover a new (shade/color related) pattern, which was useful several times. You design other great puzzles but this one is my favorite.
Regarding,
Quote: Originally Posted by jankonyex For Naivoj,I think #100 is much more harder then #105.
#100: http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Naivoj)_100
#105: http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Naivoj)_105 |
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Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.05.11 05:58:58
Quote: Originally Posted by naivoj T...? |
Last edited by Jankonyex - 2007.12.27 09:13:02 |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.12.27 09:12:05
#268 solution: http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Brian)_268
Last edited by Jankonyex - 2007.12.27 09:14:53 |
Brian
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 4907
Best Total: 9m 6s | Posted - 2008.01.06 18:20:14
Quote: Originally Posted by jankonyex #268 solution: http://www.hkedcity.net/sch_files/a/hp/hp-0210481/public_html/(Brian)_268 |
Why must the ?'s be lines? |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2008.01.06 19:35:17
Quote: Originally Posted by brian Why must the ?'s be lines? |
two possible cases:
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Brian
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 4907
Best Total: 9m 6s | Posted - 2008.01.06 21:43:32
Okay, a highlander argument. I usually don't use those on user puzzles, when time's not an issue. |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2008.01.07 08:42:35
Quote: Originally Posted by brian ... |
Last edited by Jankonyex - 2008.01.07 08:49:20 |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2008.01.07 19:57:16
nice pattern with odd "2"
Last edited by Jankonyex - 2008.01.09 16:15:46 |
