A tuna fish sandwich doesn't need explanation. As long as it's made of traditional edible ingrediants. I mean, if you fashion a styrofoam facsimile of a tuna fish sandwich, then you better be standing nearby to provide some kind of warning, apology, and reason for its existence if I happen to walk by. But generally, a tuna fish sandwich requires no special context to appreciate other than a basic appetite. Our December contest asks for you to devise a puzzle with the same elegance and inherent goodness of a tuna fish sandwich.
Rules
1. Make a puzzle that is sealed airtight in a square box containing exactly 90,000 pixels--in other words a bitmap image, 300 pixels wide and 300 pixels high.
2. The puzzle must be self-contained. You won't be allowed to provide context outside of the picture itself, although reliance on preexisting information not created for the puzzle is acceptable.
3. The puzzle should be solvable and have one specific answer. The answer to the puzzle should be expressable in a word or short phrase. You should make the answer unambiguous for better chances of winning, but there is no rule to enforce this as a requirement.
4. Accepted file formats for the image are JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP. Using animation features of a file format is not allowed.
5. You can use text, symbols, graphics or any form of visual depiction in your image.
6. Your image may only contain work you have created yourself or obtained permission to use. If you see photos, cartoons, writings, or any material you want to use from somewhere else, then there must either be a general license (i.e. Creative Commons) allowing your use, or you must specifically ask for and get permission from the author. American "
fair use"
law is ambiguous, and I don't want to spend time considering how it applies to contest entries. When in doubt about the licensing for something, just don't use it.
7. The puzzle should be posted as an attachment in a reply to this topic. Remember to specify the right licensing terms for your work. If you don't care what anybody does with your image, then just leave it on the default "
Public Domain"
setting. You can post an extra link to the image in the body of your message in order to display the image. (Ask if you want to know how to do this.) The only other thing that should be in your message is the answer inside of secret tags. The puzzle image must stand on its own without any extra hints or explanation. To avoid ambiguous situations, I ask that you
don't add anything to your entry post other than the puzzle image and the answer.
8. You can post puzzles at any time between now and the Entrance Deadline which is:
Local Time:12-22-2005 at 12:00 AM
9. You can enter multiple puzzles, up to a maximum of 3. If you have more than 3 puzzles posted, then after the Entrance Deadline, only the latest 3 will be considered to be entered. But please clean up after yourself and delete your non-entering puzzles.
10. There will be a cap of 50 puzzle entries for everyone combined. In other words, as soon as 50 entries have been submitted (if we get that many), no further entries will accepted. The limits are to avoid putting too much of a burden on voters.
Winning
After the Entrance Deadline, we'll open a poll for the entries. Voters will be asked to rate each entry based on the following factors: enjoyability, originality, and unambiguousness of the answer.
The entrant with the top-rated entry will win first prize--100 rank points and an item of his choosing from
the Prize Pile. Second and third place winners, having second and third-rated entries, will win 50 and 25 rank points, respectively.
We have started! You may post your puzzles here as soon as you are ready.
-Erik
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