Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > Ah, misread that. There is a loophole here, if you like; which is that > you can determine with a high certainty even if you can't determine for > sure. Back when Murphy was contestmaster e implied a frictionless cake cutting surface that wasn't

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-06-13 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 17:59 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > > You cannot for > >> sure determine which side of a coin is which. > > > I award 4 x-points to Rodlen for a correct answer. Eir answer involved > > feeling for heads and tails, which i

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > You cannot for >> sure determine which side of a coin is which. > I award 4 x-points to Rodlen for a correct answer. Eir answer involved > feeling for heads and tails, which is against the spirit of the puzzle, > but nevertheless correct. (It's

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-05-01 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I award 0 points to root (for Mastermind; colours in the wrong order). It looks like the reason I got this wrong was because I mistakenly reversed the black and white pegs -- I'm used to the black pegs meaning "right color in the right place", a

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-25 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 14:28, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:20 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: >> This week's Enigma puzzle is "Esoterica", by coppro (a Championship >> Puzzle). The puzzle is attached as an attachment to this email. > > Point awards in this message are made due to the con

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-16 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/4/16 Alex Smith : > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:18 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: >> There was one Enigma puzzle this week, "Scales" by Tiger: >> > A puzzle named "Scales". >> > You have a balance scale and want to be able to measure any integer >> > number of ounces. Which is the biggest weight that y

Re: ?spam? DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-08 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/4/8 Alex Smith : > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:38 -0400, Jamie Dallaire wrote: >> To Tiger and ais523: Is there any particular logic to the way you came >> up with these, or was it just a matter of trying until something >> worked? The first two times this puzzle was submitted I tried the >> latt

Re: ?spam? DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-08 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:38 -0400, Jamie Dallaire wrote: > To Tiger and ais523: Is there any particular logic to the way you came > up with these, or was it just a matter of trying until something > worked? The first two times this puzzle was submitted I tried the > latter technique but eventually

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-08 Thread Jamie Dallaire
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:59 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: > > Puzzles this week: > > > > Ordinary puzzles: > > "Rainbow Adjacencies" by ais523 > > There was only one correct answer to this puzzle (and no incorrect > answers); therefore, maximum point

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-01 Thread comex
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > This message serves to award points for Enigma for last week's puzzles. > > There were no correct solutions for 7 Bytes; therefore, nobody scores > points for it. (Rodlen's attempted solution was incorrect.) The 7 bytes are z80 opcodes: $ hd 7b

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2009-04-01 Thread Sean Hunt
Alex Smith wrote: > I informally request comex and coppro to explain the answers to eir own > puzzles (or to resubmit them if they prefer); I will resubmit a modified version. > I also informally request > coppro to explain eir reasoning on READ ME, because IMO it's more > interesting to hear the

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-11-17 Thread Pavitra
On Monday 17 November 2008 01:39:53 pm Alex Smith wrote: > First, the awards for authors: > I award 4 points to Pavitra, the author of a puzzle. > Then, the awards for correct answers: > I award Wooble 8 points for the first correct answer to Prediction. > I award Murphy 4 points for a correct answ

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-11-10 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > !ENFORCED CHARITY. I was two blots in three days. [Cards] I had Oligardiness (a historical class 2 infraction committed by failing to take a particular action within three days). > !FEBRUARY. I am the lunation of li

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-11-03 Thread ais523
ais523, could I get a current members list for Enigma? Yes, but my email's pretty broken atm (that explains both why I'm sending from Normish, and the incorrect quoting.) I think it's as follows: (the Left Hand), Murphy, root, (Iammars), Wooble, Goethe, (avpx), Zefram, Pavitra, ais523, comex, El

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-11-03 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 07:11, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:05 +, Alex Smith wrote: >> There have been two puzzles submitted for Enigma this week: ais523, could I get a current members list for Enigma? Thanks, BobTHJ

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-11-03 Thread Pavitra
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For last week's Enigma puzzle "Elementary Arithmetic", I award points as > follows (btw, these are in order of submission, from the author's > original solution to the last submitted solution): > 4 to ehird; > 8 to Wooble; > 4

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:40 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm... interesting. But given that I have to award myself "as many > > points as possible" later on, would that give me infinite points? > > Well, it's not possible to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... interesting. But given that I have to award myself "as many > points as possible" later on, would that give me infinite points? Well, it's not possible to award more points than the limit, so you wouldn't be required to a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:27 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:05 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I attempt to award 4 points to ais523 for authoring the puzzle. This > > fails because a contestmaster can't award points to emself, but I have > > to try. > > It wouldn't

DIS: Re: BUS: [Enigma] Last week's results

2008-09-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:05 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attempt to award 4 points to ais523 for authoring the puzzle. This > fails because a contestmaster can't award points to emself, but I have > to try. It wouldn't if Enigma were a member contract of the PRS. BobTHJ