hm, okay, I could give cognitive psychology a try :) (might focus on language use/learning and problem solving/decision making, will have to read up on other areas ...)
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I don't know if I'll have a giveaway to give away, but I can get you a puzzle on economics by the end of the month
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We have people donating GAs for the event and not puzzles so that wouldn't be a problem...
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I'd like to contribute a GA for those who complete the formal science branch or the entire thing. It'll probably be a programming game, so I guess the solvers would like it (:
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Thanks lmxn! I'll make a list of those who want to be GA contributors.
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Sorry pal, but I barely find time for playing games :D
But have my bump, use it wisely!
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I discovered this thread through the post in zombie group and want to say that it is awesome idea. Too late for all topics I would like to take :)
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Well you can take one still available and broaden your horizons a bit? ;)
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Fomal Science and Physical Science are the best for me. Earth and Space is pretty close, so ok - I'll take climate :)
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Also, I'll be able to donate only a few GAs and they will be bundled. Is it ok and are there people responsible for GAs from different sections?
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bundled is fine... and yes each puzzle maker has a ga before their puzzle and at least one after their puzzle. We also have sponsers for GA contribution that aren't designing puzzles.
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Good. Then you can count on me. I'll definitely use some interesting stuff about rain. And some light phenomena. It's a big field. Anyway, it's all about math and physics :)
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Don't we have any personal trainers or gym addicts in the house? =)
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Or even those in the medical field? Anatomy would be physiology....
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I think most PTs know quite a bit of anatomy and how the body functions, especially those that are medically licensed.
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I actually used to be a fitness instructor and PT... I should pull out my books and make the puzzle for Physiology....
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Puzzle is ready :3 now waiting for march to make GA's :D Buuuump!
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I also completed the puzzles. 3 puzzles of 5 questions each. It was easier to create them than I expected. xD Do you want to check them out, jeffhowe?
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Awesome, I will be contacting you soon to go over them...
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So I made puzzles. 3 sets of 10 questions
And made sure to get games I can give away to go with them :P
Jeffhowe, you want to check out the puzzles? If so...communicate via Steam or?
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Yes, Ill be contacting you soon... thanks for being early prepared and ready!
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Well I guess I'm too late for the puzzle part, but if you still need GA contributors I could add a little bundle train. Nothing special just some spare keys I have lying around. Just an offer in case there should be puzzles without giveaway in the end.
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Well I haven't made my puzzle yet... I just put my name in for to fill up all the slots. It would be nice if I was just responsible for the puzzle locks and topical puzzles...
So do you want to take Life Science/Functional Biology/Physiology from me and develop yourself? I was thinking of doing a 3 part puzzle, one on Human anatomy, Human Body Systems, and Unique Animal Physiology.
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That topic would be completely new to me since I'm an electrical engineer^^ But I could give it a try but you should double check the puzzle cause English isn't my native language.
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Well physics and maths is my daily routine... chemistry is also kind of ok. Since you shouldn't need a degree to solve the puzzles I think all of these fields should be ok. I'm not planing to create a puzzle on multi-layer varistors^^
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I'll keep the puzzle and confer with the next poster here in this thread... dexterprog. He is a doctor! ;)
I'll put you down to sponsor with GA contribution.
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A doctor definitely makes more sense regarding this topic :) I will try to get some good games together, nothing is more frustrating than solving a puzzle and getting a shitty reward :D
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Yea he helped a lot...
Thanks for contributing with GA.
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When do you want my train to start and when to finish? Right now I got 5 bundled games I actually enjoyed myself, that I reserved for the train. I can add more (got a lot more keys of games I didn't like myself^^) but I didn't want to spam the train with games hardly anybody wants.
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We need to make the GAs tomorrow to start tomorrow and continue to March 31st... as late as possible...
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I'm gonna be setting mine to start today at 12:00, and end on the 31st at 12:00, both UTC time, to run for exactly 30 days.
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My train is ready (I hope). Giveaways already started and finish close to midnight on March 31st.
I added you on steam to send the link. It's my first train ever so you might check if everything is working.
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I'm a physician (doctor), so if you need help with the ones about physiology and medicine, you can let me know anytime.
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Friend request on Steam... have ideas for nice puzzle and you could help and save me a lot of time...
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Accepted. Just let me know when you need help. I'm currently studying for residency exams in my country so I may not reply ASAP, but will try to reply fast.
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Thanks for your help dexterprog... the one I added on animal physiology is really easy.....
Thanks for help on other two...
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You're welcome, sorry I couldn't get into editing. Don't have a lotta time, but I can always check answers if you need me to.
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The model for my puzzle is almost ready. Just need to implement an anti-cheat system for each question and test if it works on browsers other than Chrome.
After that, I just have to come up with 25 questions and we're ready to go. :P
Hopefully I can finish the model today and work on the questions during the weekend.
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I am intrigued. I am very trusting when it comes to puzzles, on the grounds that the solving is the reward, the a-ha moment is the drug, and so, why would people cheat. But I recognise that that is not a universally agreed approach. How do you implement an anti-cheat mechanism which isn't a penalty on those trying to solve it legitimately? I really am curious about this one.
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Oh don't get too excited, I simply made the puzzle on my own website, so I had to make sure people couldn't just look at the source code and get the results. :P And I also had to make sure people couldn't cheat with the 30 seconds interval between each guess - still implementing this one.
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Again, I am less fussed. There are puzzles that can be brute forced, and I get that (and I have even written some). But often when I am waiting out the 30 seconds it is more about knowing the answer and trying to figure out which combination of format and/or punctuation will be recognised by ITH. So again, I am not that concerned. But are there people bypassing the 30 second interval? And if so how? Adjusting tick speeds?
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No, you didn't get it. I'm implementing my own kind of ITH, so I had to add those restrictions.
It is very rare that I wait for the 30 seconds when I know the answers though. :P Most puzzles I solve aren't that straightforward.
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Model ready. Tested on Firefox and it works well, except I couldn't figure out how to hide the scrollbar, so it won't look as nice as on Chrome. Will clean the code today and do some final testing.
I think I can get it done by tomorrow if I have fast ideas for the 25 questions. I'll probably have to make most of those a simple quiz.
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It looks absolutely ridiculous on Edge. I'll see if something can be done about it, but people will most likely have to use either Chrome or Firefox, with Chrome being the best option.
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Cool.... Delete the above as we aren't ready to be LIVE yet... Thanks! You're awesome!
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2 days to go, how many people still need a last minute push to get their puzzles done? =)
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Finished mine on day 1.5, but still need to create the ITH and train...yawn.
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I'm not making any promises. :P I'll probably post mine later in the month.
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That's fine... try to get it ready by the first week-- but if not don't stress... there will be many others to solve..
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Im not gonna start pulling it all together until like the 2nd since can only create GAs 30 days from creation date and want it to go to the 31st... so as long as we all push for trying to get it all in by first week of March-- it's all good...,
But the faster each person gets it done the faster it will go live...
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7/10 almost done. Still need ideas for the last 3 questions :(
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Already have the format prepared for mine, but as it requirec actual GA codes to make will not be able to actually make it b4 2nd :>
ITH is too mainstream, I want to make puzzle, not a freaking quiz :>
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I hear ya... I've gone hogwild creative with the puzzle locks... It's gonna be FUNNNNNN!
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Creating 1 puzzle on ITH right now. Probably there will be a few of them.
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So it will all be posted as one big fat chunk, not in steps? Hope I don't get overwhelmed again :P
The list in the OP looked like a release schedule :)
A puzzle a day keeps the boredom at bay :P
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I'll release them as I get them and will release over the complete week... I may release some and hold back others but everything will be out by first week... there will be puzzle locks to solve where subgroups will have to be fully solved to access more GAs and achievements...
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BTW I do appreciate all the puzzle creators who are contributing GAs for their puzzle... but if you would also like to contribute GAs for solvers of full Science groups or the complete event then let me know... of course not required but appreciated...
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Hi :D
I'm gonna send my part in 6 - 7 hours. Have to go now to university and I want to check it once again :D
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I am a bit late with the puzzle about statistics, sorry for that. I will provide it in a few upcoming days.
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Sure... anytime within the first week of March will be fine.
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Reporting progress, Sir.
Puzzle almost ready, delivery happening tomorrow. The question though... how will I deliver it? Mail/Steamfriend/something?
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Make the PRIVATE GAs tomorrow and make them last as late as possible on the 31st of March...
Then email me the link to the first cheapy private GA that you will use to introduce your puzzle on... (that GA is where all hints and chatting will be done about your puzzle). This way the main thread won't have a lot of chat on all the puzzles for the full event but it will be directed just to you on the cheapy GA.
I will reply with a private GA link of mine for you to put on the end of your puzzle after it is solved. This GA will be an extra award for solving your puzzle and include a password for extra achievements.
My email address is: jeffasl@yahoo.com
Thanks!
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Sent. Also you can add "tip" for BL people - they can't see GA when they are logged in the site, but they can see it when they are logged out.
So they can either use another browser (like IE), or log out to see hub GA and access the puzzle. Tho they won't be able to ask questions.
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An update (and a reason to bump): I decided to completely change my third puzzle. Initially, I had some pictures of microorganism colonies in Petri dishes, but I thought it wasn't educational at all, so I decided to change the pictures to some spoiled fruits - this seems more educational. My first puzzle is about good microorganisms, my second puzzle is about bad microorganisms, and my third puzzle has pictures of spoiled fruits. Because I edited my third puzzle though, I can still see the old answers - I hope we won't have a problem, Houston. xD Considering that March starts tomorrow (and the event too), I was hoping we would eventually talk today. :P
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Sure... I plan on getting everything coming together by the 2nd.... we have to make the GAs the 1st as we can make them live maximum 30 days from the date of creation.
Ill look for you on Steam today....
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Well mine won't be ready today, but I'll try to get as much done as I can in the next 2 hours before leaving for university.
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That's fine.. no rush... can't start making GAs for it till tomorrow.
Have a safe trip to university!
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Thanks! I'm done with the ideas. I'm going to use 3 types of puzzles and 2 quizzes. The 3 puzzles are almost ready, but I still need to make the 10 questions from the 2 quizzes.
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My puzzle will be ready by tommorow :< I did not have much free time lately. BUT ITS GONNA BE AWESOME! not really but i like to hype people up YES!
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also just checking in to say that my puzzle will be a day or two late, but I haven't forgotten about it :)
(I have the "easy" part all figured out, just not sure how to do the "puzzly" part yet...)
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25 Platinum and 23 Gold Winners!!!
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This event is ended. If you want to provide solutions to your puzzle then post them in main thread.
Note to puzzle designers: Our goal is to get everyone through the event and try to avoid frustration. We want to see a lot of platinum and GOLD winners. Thus, have fun dropping clever hints in your GA thread and helping users that are stuck. We are all in a learning process-- we want our puzzles to be FUN, EDUCATIONAL, ENJOYABLE and promote COMRADESHIP.
com·rade·ship
ˈkämˌradˌSHip,ˈkämrədˌSHip
noun
the company and friendship of others with common aims.
"his greatest joy came from comradeship with others in the team"
Note: To solve the passcode puzzles use a copy of THIS PERIODIC TABLE. When it says Number focus on atomic numbers of elements. When it says Weight focus on atomic weight which is usually three digits after the decimal. If it says two elements added together to get a new element then add the two elements atomic numbers and get a new number--then find what is the element that has the added result. You will also need to goggle for common and scientific names of plants and animals. The first part of the passcode hint shows the format and special characters to use. (no passcodes have spaces)
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