The Left Hand and I agree to the following, which thereby becomes a
public contract. I intend, without 3 objections, to make it a contest.
1) The name of this public contract is Enigma.
2) The purpose of this contract is to be a contest that encourages
asking and answering puzzles of moderate difficulty.
3) Any player CAN become a member of this contract by announcement.
4) The contestmaster of this contract CAN change as permitted by the
rules.
5) The contestmaster CAN amend this contract 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 sent
privately to the contestmaster by a contestant (hereafter its author)
who has not previously submitted a puzzle during the same week. The
author of a puzzle SHALL NOT disclose its answer to any other
contestant.
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 other than its author, during the same week in which the
contestmaster published that puzzle.
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.
9) As soon as possible after the end of each week, the contestmaster
SHALL publish a list of all puzzles submitted during that week.
10) As soon as possible after the end of each week, for each puzzle
published by the contestmaster and having at least one eligible
answer during that week, the contestmaster SHALL award points in
this order, up to a maximum of P points per puzzle (where P is
the maximum number of points that a contest CAN award per week
per contestant). For the purpose of this clause, contestanthood
is measured at the end of the week.
a) 1 point to its author.
b) 2 points to the submitter of that puzzle's first eligible
answer.
c) 1 point each to the submitters of all other eligible answers
for that puzzle, in order of submission.
d) As many points as possible to its author.
