4th GL Puzzle Competition: Final Standings & Discussion

[Logain]

* see page 4 for final standings *

This is the official 4th GL Puzzle Competition Sign-Up Thread.

The competition will start Monday, 07/16 EST.

Anyone wishing to participate just post here, or email or PM me with your interest. Just provide a valid email address since puzzles will be emailed rather than posted here for viewing.

Who can participate? Anyone! All that I require is if anyone outside the GL participates...friends, relatives, unregistered lurkers, etc. that have no registration here, give me a username I can at least refer to in any postings of the participant list.

A big thanks to Samadhi who has volunteered to help with the grading of the puzzles as a separate subjective scorer for giving partial or even full credit if the answer sent is not one I intended, so any questions and answers should be sent to both of us.

The RULES & MISC. INFO:
1) The competition will consist of 4 rounds. Each round having 5 puzzles.
2) Each round will be one week long. Puzzles will be sent out by the start of each Monday (USA EST), and due by the end of the following Monday.
3) The puzzles will vary in style from math, to logic, wordplay, and lateral type thinking. They're all written for the single solver.
4) Puzzle details should not be discussed with other participants or GL members. Obviously it can't be enforced, but ideally these puzzles should be your sole effort
5) Any outside reference material is allowed if you think it will help.
6) Questions are always welcome, but any puzzle clarifications and possible hints resulting from anyone's questions will be sent out to everyone participating.

Participant List:
1. Dented Ford
2. lexprod
3. Gomez
4. LordKinbote
5. Courk
6. yuethomas
7. Swepsie
8. Scurra
9. groza528
10. marcusI
11. jesus_saves
12. kublai
13. Duke Gnome
14. jesternl
15. Cordelia
16. L'lanmal
17. Amb
18. CzarJ
19. /dev/joe
20. Antrax
21. dethwing
22. Middle Aged Guy
23. Tahnan
24. Quailman
25. veryrusty
26. Kargach
27. mith
28. Kd
29. jangler
30. zoetrope88
31. zorT Kitty
32. Lepton
33. fetus face
34. Tinhorn
35. Vraal
36. mikegoo
37. Zotmeister
38. greypuzz
39. floatingon
40. nopants
41. Suspence
42. Foggy
43. T McAy
44. inHimshallibe
45. phw
46. chantilly
47. GameFace
48. mole
49. UnheardVoice
50. sergio_27
51. Bobdoe
52. Chuck
53. Salty
54. PuzzleScot
55. jbvntx

[Dented Ford]

/in! Yay! More puzzles!

[lexprod]

/in

Cause, you know, Survivor isn't enough mental abuse.
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I'll have a P please...

[Amb]

Is it in teams or individual?

[Logain]

[Courk]

[yuethomas]

/in

(and yes, the GL email address will be fine.)
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Tom Yue

[Swepsie]

/in please!
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Antidisestablishmentarialism ?

[Scurra]

/in [if I say it quickly enough, perhaps I won't notice.]
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_{still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon}

[Samadhi]

[groza528]

/in.

And for email it's just my screenname at gmail.

[marcusI]

/in

[jesus_saves]

/in

because someone has to consistently hold last place.

[kublai]

/in

[Duke Gnome]

I'd like to be in, thanks.

[jesternl]

/in, of course

[Cordelia]

/verily inn

[L'lanmal]

/in, unless wanted to write puzzles.

[Amb]

/in

[LordKinbote]

/in

[CzarJ]

/in! You can send puzzles to johng [atoogledyboogledyspambotssuck] ou {doooooot} edu.

They're probably still going to figure that out, aren't they? Oh well.

[Logain]

[/dev/joe]

/in

[Samadhi]

No asterisk!
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Antrax]

I participated in one of those and did terribly. Let's see if anything's changed.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

[dethwing]

/in dethwing at fuse dot net

[Middle Aged Guy]

/confirm!

[Tahnan]

I say, what? One may as well count me in, I should think. The weekend before is the National Puzzlers' League convention (in Ann Arbor, MI...come by if you're in the area!), so we'll see if I have a brain left after that. (tahnan should still work, @mit.edu)

[veryrusty]

Count me in. I'll pm an email address.
(back to lurking for me...)

[Kd]

/in

Having suffered hideous, embarrassing defeats in several other puzzle competitions, I figured that this must be my time to shine! right?
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Guess who's back, back again, Kd's back, tell a friend.

[CzarJ]

Right!

[Jangler*]

*hand*

[zoetrope88]

Aw, what the heck. I need to blow the rust off my noodle anyway!
/in
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What are the moral implications of yelling "MOVIE!" in a crowded firehouse?

[zorT Kitty]

/in, but I will probably not complete a single puzzle.

zorTkitty(at)gmail(dot)com

[Lepton*]

I'm in, folks.
My friend (aka fetus face ) would like to join as well. e-mail is andrea_lodge at hotmail.

[Tinhorn]

But it rings
And I rise
Rub the sleep out of my eyes.

Hey what? Someone's posing a bunch of puzzles? Sure, go ahead and sign me up, and I'll a-do what I a-can.

Delete the (singular) animals from:

dwombatshukanzebra at gbunnymail.com

[mikegoo]

I'm in (me) at hotmail

[Zotmeister]

If /dev/joe is getting in on this, I'll give it a stab as well. My profile email is fine. - ZM
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Darkness lessons learned/Avenging golden tresses/Yellow flower blooms
- "(dedicated to Millia Rage)", original haiku

[Logain]

Hmmm, I just thought of something here. Does anyone know how Spam Blockers treat emails with lots of people in the CC list? Do any of them filter on that? If anyone knows a number I shouldn't exceed I could just break it up and send out multiple emails.

[groza528]

I can't speak for anyone else, but my gmail spam filter just files spam in a separate folder, so I can go in and read it normally.