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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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