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« Reply #1065 on: 21:27:08, 06-03-2008 » |
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Mme Antheil, you are only docked points on your fifth guess within the hour if your answer is incorrect!!
for each incorrect or incomplete solution of a puzzle a Member (the solver attempting) receives 20 points - but in order to deter frivolity a second attempted solution to any one puzzle within one hour of a first will attract 10 points, a third attempt at the same puzzle within one hour will attract 5 points, a fourth attempt at the same puzzle will attract no points, and subsequent attempts at the same puzzle within one hour will attract minus 20 points.
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #1066 on: 21:28:34, 06-03-2008 » |
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A few questions about the current 'test' thread (for someone who had been absent for 48 hours): a) How can we TELL which extracts still need to be solved b) when we know this, how can we find them (i.e. easily, without scrolling back through everything) c) given that one may have lost interest in any scoring, is a posting that at least identifies something (or indeed even offers a new puzzle) any longer 'permitted' without the poster giving an up-to-date tally of his/her score? I fear this competition may have inadvertently outgrown me.  Baz |
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« Reply #1067 on: 21:30:31, 06-03-2008 » |
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Baz, Mr Grew's new thread Reportoire Records contains a complete list of puzzles, including the unsolved ones and where to find them. Hope this helps. |
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« Reply #1068 on: 21:35:58, 06-03-2008 » |
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Mornington Crescent!!
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« Reply #1069 on: 21:39:07, 06-03-2008 » |
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But IGI, you have posted about an Italian ballet.
Surely, under the Rules Ballet is Verboten (hence your Shosta Bolt being declared Void despite my solving it.)
Is your latest Ballet offering Luigi Dallapiccola I wonder: In which case Uncle Syd will have no truck with such nonsense!
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #1070 on: 21:41:28, 06-03-2008 » |
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I must say I find it hard to keep up with everything and the scoring is a chore. Perhaps the scoring should be simplified, with points simply for setting and solving puzzles.
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« Reply #1071 on: 21:42:06, 06-03-2008 » |
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Ah, now technically it's not an Italian ballet (as performed in the Theatre) but a Suite from a ballet, as performed in the Concert Hall - entirely different!
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« Reply #1072 on: 21:48:44, 06-03-2008 » |
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Ah, but does Our Esteemed Quiz Moderator Mr. Grew recognise such subtle differences IGI? Remember, we are is in the grip of his icy hands and he sets the rules.
Indeed, a shiver runs up and down my spine at the mere thought of it.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #1073 on: 21:51:45, 06-03-2008 » |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #1074 on: 21:53:56, 06-03-2008 » |
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Baz, Mr Grew's new thread Reportoire Records contains a complete list of puzzles, including the unsolved ones and where to find them. Hope this helps. Thanks IGI - I simply knew that Mr grew would somehow have addressed this, but (alas) by the time I returned his new thread had already been relegated to p.2 and I missed it. But it still does not include any of the needed software for download in order to comply with the new requirement to provide self-assessment for scoring purposes! What must I - a poor and helpless unmathematical mite - DO? (I would not know a single digit from a Pythagorean Comma!) I'll just have to 'heckle' (productively) I suppose. Baz |
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« Reply #1075 on: 22:01:32, 06-03-2008 » |
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Not a chalumeau. Something a bit bigger than a clarinet. |
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« Reply #1076 on: 22:06:14, 06-03-2008 » |
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But it still does not include any of the needed software for download in order to comply with the new requirement to provide self-assessment for scoring purposes! What must I - a poor and helpless unmathematical mite - DO? (I would not know a single digit from a Pythagorean Comma!)
Baz, I just typed my latest score from Mr Grew's Table into my post and added the appropriate bonus. Basic scoring = 180 for a correct guess, unless you get it within three hours of it appearing, in which case the setter will probably be only too happy to confirm your tally; 20 for a guess, going down to 10, 5 and 0 for subsequent guesses if they turn out to be incorrect. 100 points for posting each new puzzle. I'm sure Mr Grew would help out if it proved too confusing - he has indicated that he is working on a computerised system which could well be introduced. |
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« Reply #1077 on: 23:18:39, 06-03-2008 » |
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The 263, the basset horn concerto, is a hard one to pin on the composer concerned, who is all but forgotten today. He was one of Paganini's teachers and he was renowned as a viola player. I don't know what his association was with the basset horn.
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« Reply #1078 on: 23:22:48, 06-03-2008 » |
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What must I - a poor and helpless unmathematical mite - DO? A number of Members appear to be in the same boat. Our advice is not to worry but to go on setting and solving puzzles to their heart's content. The matter of their scores will sooner or later be taken care of by Others. |
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« Reply #1079 on: 00:01:41, 07-03-2008 » |
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I feel a bit like Baz, having returned to the boards a couple of days ago after an almost total absence of two or three weeks. Mr Grew's chart of puzzles remaining unsolved came therefore as exactly the 'right idea at the right time', but I'm not going to try to catch up and listen to all the unsolved ones as it takes far too much time! I do know the composer of Richard's No 272, and was pretty sure I knew even before he posted his latest clue, but having briefly spun some of the possible contending works in the background this evening as I was working I'm afraid I haven't found the passage yet.  Also, the exchange above between Mr Grew and Ms Antheil makes me wonder if I've missed some major change in the scoring rules. Do we no longer lose points for every incorrect guess? |
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