On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 16:01 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Create a new power-2 rule, called "Champion's Contests", with the
> following text:
> {{{
> Medals are a type of asset, tracked by the Scorekeepor; ownership of
> Medals is limited to contests and to non-contest players. Medals can
> only be transferred, created, and destroyed as defined in this rule.
>
> A contest's contestmaster CAN create a Medal in that contest's
> possession without 2 objections. While a contest owns a Medal, it is
> known as a Champion's Contest.
>
> A contest's contestmaster CAN transfer ownership of or destroy a Medal
> in that contest's possession, but only as explicitly described by the
> contest's text; one exception to this is that a contest CANNOT
> transfer
> a Medal to its contestmaster.
>
> A Medal is automatically destroyed if the text of a contest owning it
> changes.
>
> Upon a win announcement that a specified non-contest player owns a
> Medal, that player satisfies the Winning Condition of Championship.
> Cleanup procedure: One Medal owned by that player is destroyed.
> }}}
I wrote (on February 27):
> I intend, without member objection, to append the following text to
> Enigma:
> {{{
> 11) Enigma's contestmaster CAN and MAY create a Medal in its
> possession,
> if permitted by the rules and using the mechanisms specified in the
> rules. When doing so, the contestmaster must privately think of, or
> already have thought of, a Secret Answer, a string of characters, and
> SHALL publish its MD5 hash in the same message in which e creates the
> Medal. The Secret Answer must stay constant for as long as Enigma
> posesses a Medal, and ceases to exist when Enigma ceases to possess a
> Medal.
>
> The contestmaster SHALL NOT reveal the text of, or other information
> about, the Secret Answer, except as permitted to and/or required to by
> either the text of this Contract or by the Rules. This restriction
> specifically does not apply to parties other than the contestmaster,
> who
> MAY share, keep secret, barter with, or do anything else with
> information about the Secret Answer they discover.
>
> A "Championship Puzzle" is a puzzle designated as such by the
> contestmaster whilst publishing it. Puzzles SHOULD be designated as
> Championship Puzzles if the contestmaster believes they are neither
> too
> easy nor too difficult.
>
> As soon as possible after receiving the first eligible answer by a
> given
> contestant on a given Championship Puzzle, the contestmaster SHALL as
> soon as possible privately reveal to em either a Specific Clue or a
> Generic Clue, which is information about the Secret Answer which must
> be
> true, but MAY (but does not have to) be misleading. If the answer is
> the
> first eligible answer to be submitted on that puzzle, the
> contestmaster
> SHALL instead reveal to em both a Specific Clue and a Generic Clue. A
> Specific Clue is a clue that mostly reveals information about a
> localised part of the Secret Answer; a Generic Clue is a clue that
> mostly reveals information about the Secret Answer as a whole. When
> submitting answers for puzzles, contestants SHOULD specify whether
> they
> want a Specific Clue or a Generic Clue, and the contestmaster SHOULD
> honour this preference if possible. All Specific Clues given due to
> answers on a given puzzle should be the same, and all Generic Clues
> given due to answers on a given puzzle should be the same.
>
> The contestmaster CAN and MAY transfer a medal from Enigma to the
> first
> contestant who publishes the Secret Answer, and SHALL do so if it is
> clearly labeled as the Secret Answer, or when it was pointed out that
> that contestant published the Secret Answer. Medals owned by Enigma
> CANNOT be transferred otherwise. When choosing a Secret Answer, the
> contestmaster SHOULD choose a Secret Answer unlikely to be published
> except in connection with this contest. Contestants SHOULD verify an
> attempt to publish the Secret Answer against the provided MD5 hash
> before publishing it, so as not to unduly give away information to
> other
> contestants.
> }}}
Unfortunately, it seems that the dependent action timeout has run out,
due to the delay in distributing and assessing the proposals. I
therefore repeat (to the public forum) the two intents above, neither of
which drew any objections the first time round.
I intend, without objection, to terminate my pledge about the timing of
resolution of the intents above, because it is no longer relevant.
I also intend, without member objection, to append the following to the
penultimate paragraph of Enigma (I will only resolve this if I have
first resolved the intents above):
{{{
If at least one point is awarded by the contestmaster due to a
Championship Puzzle whose author is not the contestmaster, the
contestmaster SHALL reveal a Specific Clue and a Generic Clue to the
author of that puzzle.
}}}
(This is fixing a bug, in which people who submitted puzzles would have
had a disadvantage in the big metapuzzle if the puzzles were
high-quality, more or less the opposite of what we want.)
--
ais523
Contestmaster, Enigma
