Enigma Parties ---------------------------------------- Murphy Wooble root Taral Quazie ais523 ehird woggle Warrigal c. Dvorak Herring Sgeo BobTHJ Elysion G. Iammars avpx Zefram Billy Pilgrim allispaul coppro Walker Rodlen Tiger Yally modulus HP2 Properties ---------------------------------------- Disclosure: Public Sentiment: Equitable Contest (Contestmaster:ais523) Contract Text ---------------------------------------- 1) This is an Equitable, Public contract named Enigma. 2) The purpose of this contract is to be a contest that encourages asking and answering puzzles of moderate difficulty. If for any reason this contract is not a contest, all clauses of this contract except clauses 1-5 inclusive have no effect. 3) Any person CAN become a member of this contract by announcement. A "contestant", for the purpose of this contract, is a person who is party to this contract, but not its contestmaster. 4) The contestmaster of this contract CAN be changed without three objections. 5) The contestmaster CAN amend this contract without member objection. If this contract does not have a contestmaster, instead any party to it CAN amend it 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 either sent privately to the contestmaster by a contestant (hereafter its author) who has not previously submitted a puzzle during the same week, or submitted by the contestmaster in a private message to emself (the contestmaster can only submit one puzzle per week this way). The author of a puzzle SHALL NOT disclose its answer to any other contestant (other than contestants which share a basis member with the author), nor to any non-contestant player of Agora, until after its answer submission period ends. 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 whose basis is disjoint from its author's basis, during that puzzle's answer submission period (which begins when the contestmaster publishes it and ends one week later), and for which that contestant did not attempt to submit another answer for that puzzle later in the answer submission period. (Eligibility is evaluated instantaneously, so an answer which is eligible can become ineligible if another answer is later submitted for that puzzle by the same contestant.) 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. In addition, if the contestmaster believes a puzzle is sufficiently trivial to not be interesting, than e may award points (and Clues, if appropriate) as if all non-author answers were incorrect. Also, if a puzzle obviously only has a small range of possible answers (for instance, if it is a true or false question), the contestmaster may and SHOULD treat an answer as incorrect unless its submitter gives extra reasoning to explain why that answer is correct. 9) As soon as possible after the end of each week, the contestmaster SHALL publish a list of all puzzles submitted during that week; this is not a requirement if the list is empty, but in such a case the contestmaster SHOULD nevertheless announce that there were no puzzles. 10) The answer submission period for a list of puzzles ends one week after it begins. As soon as possible after the end of a list's answer submission period, the contestmaster SHALL attempt to award points in the order stated below, except that no points are awarded for puzzles for which no eligible answers were submitted. For the purpose of this clause, contestanthood is measured at the end of the answer submission period. a) For each eligible answer, in order of submission, its author gains: - 5 x-points, if it was the first eligible answer on that puzzle, and the puzzle was the only one on its list; or - 4 x-points, if it was the first eligible answer on that puzzle, but there was more than one puzzle on that list; or - 3 x-points, if it was not the first eligible answer on that puzzle, but the puzzle was the only one on its list; or - 2 x-points, otherwise. As an exception to this, if more than 6 eligible answers are submitted on a puzzle, all point awards for that puzzle under this section are reduced by 1 x-point. b) For each puzzle, its author gains 11 y-points, minus 1 y-point for each eligible answer which was submitted on that puzzle; no y-points are awarded this way if this would result in a negative number of y-points being awarded, or if no eligible answers were submitted on that puzzle. If an attempt to award points this way would fail due to too many points being awarded, all such rewards are reduced by the same integral number of y-points, choosing the minimum integral number of y-points to reduce by such that all the awards in question succeed. 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 contestants, 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 Enigma owns a Medal, and the contestmaster believes they are neither too easy nor too difficult. Within a week after the end of the answer submission period of a list of puzzles, for each contestant who submitted an eligible answer 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 that answer was 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; if a contestant does not specify a preference, the contestmaster SHOULD use a suitable method of randomisation (which need not be public) to decide whether to give a Specific or Generic clue, in the case where only one is given. 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. If at least one point is awarded by the contestmaster due to a Championship Puzzle authored by a contestant, the contestmaster SHALL reveal a Specific Clue and a Generic Clue to the author of that puzzle. 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. Recent Events ----------------------------------------