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motris

Straight from my inbox

Nov 23, 2009 15:01

(I'm sure an official announcement on philly.com will come soon, but an email signed by Will Shortz qualifies for me even with the many typos. Here, for the sudoku community - whether advanced, intermediate, or beginner - is finally some justice; nothing can fully restore the finals, but this is something.)

Dear Thomas ( Read more... )

eugene, competition, sudoku, ussc

Comments 6

Mulligans anonymous November 24 2009, 12:38:29 UTC

The Inquirer gives a few additional details about the retesting process:

http://bit.ly/sudokuredo

It was pretty smart of Will and Nick Baxter to simply give the Sudobomber the actual puzzles from Round 3. True SudoFail.

Re: Mulligans motris November 24 2009, 15:30:17 UTC

Most likely not the actual puzzles, but transformed versions of them. They'd solve the same way. I'll have some more to say about ways to retest a puzzle later this week.

Re: Mulligans nickbaxter November 24 2009, 16:43:54 UTC

I prepared the round 3 puzzles both ways, so I had some flexibility. But as things played out I ended up giving the unaltered puzzles during the re-test, primarily to strengthen the comparison to the live round 3.

Re: Mulligans anonymous November 24 2009, 23:23:50 UTC

So what did he do? He just showed up pretending everything was fair? And then he could not even finish them? It must have been a suicide, he probably was hoping he will find a way to cheat again. I am so angry and puzzled with that guy.

Svilen Dyakovski

Thread 5

Congratulations... anonymous December 15 2009, 00:47:55 UTC

...I was there for the craziness in Philadelphia. It was my first sudoku tourney, and I remember you raising your hands in celebration (before you realized your mistakes) and then later graciously congratulating Ms. McLeod. I also remember watching Mr. Varshavsky stand there in his hoodie and saying aloud, "That guy ain't movin'." Little did we know...

I figured that with my years of doing sudoku puzzles from newspapers I should enter in the intermediate level, but my performance in the timed puzzles on the website brought me back down to earth, and I ended up entering as a beginner.

I usually make the sort of marks you describe (though I am just learning on your site all of the inherent terminology) when solving at home, but I thought they'd be frowned upon in the tournament, and so I made almost no marks and carefully erased the few I did make before raising my hand. (I just wish I could blame this for my not finishing the third set or the set for the location round.)

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