On 20:23 Mon 03 Mar , Ed Murphy wrote: > The Left Hand and I agree to the following, which thereby becomes a > public contract. I intend, without 3 objections, to make it a contest. > > 1) The name of this public contract is Enigma. > > 2) The purpose of this contract is to be a contest that encourages > asking and answering puzzles of moderate difficulty. > > 3) Any player CAN become a member of this contract by announcement. > > 4) The contestmaster of this contract CAN change as permitted by the > rules. > > 5) The contestmaster CAN amend this contract without member objection. > > 6) For the purpose of this contest, a puzzle is a body of text clearly > identified as such, accompanied by its correct answer, and sent > privately to the contestmaster by a contestant (hereafter its author) > who has not previously submitted a puzzle during the same week. The > author of a puzzle SHALL NOT disclose its answer to any other > contestant. > > 7) For the purpose of this contest, an eligible answer is a correct > answer to a puzzle sent privately to the contestmaster by a > contestant other than its author, during the same week in which the > contestmaster published that puzzle. > > 8) The correctness of a given answer is left to the contestmaster's > discretion. In particular, if the contestmaster believes that a > puzzle cannot reasonably be answered correctly without having its > correct answer disclosed by the author, then e may treat all > non-author answers as incorrect. > > 9) As soon as possible after the end of each week, the contestmaster > SHALL publish a list of all puzzles submitted during that week. > > 10) As soon as possible after the end of each week, for each puzzle > published by the contestmaster and having at least one eligible > answer during that week, the contestmaster SHALL award points in > this order, up to a maximum of P points per puzzle (where P is > the maximum number of points that a contest CAN award per week > per contestant). For the purpose of this clause, contestanthood > is measured at the end of the week. > > a) 1 point to its author. > > b) 2 points to the submitter of that puzzle's first eligible > answer. > > c) 1 point each to the submitters of all other eligible answers > for that puzzle, in order of submission. > > d) As many points as possible to its author.
The Right Hand commends you for this.
