#1: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Aug 26, 2008

I everyone I just had an idea that can be fun and challenging for everyone.

I propose to make weekly challenge for puzzle creator. We annonce a theme and let people try doing something great with that theme for a week than we declare a winner for that week. Then we start with a new theme.

the purpose off this is to 1. assure new puzzle on this website on a constant basic and 2. maeke averyone discover new creator that sometime goes dilude by those who post more puzzle.

I propose myself and Adam and a third ( volonteer needed) as judge. Adam is doing puzzle at a rate that no one follow these day and he got a critizing side that is well know So adam please enter the game with me. As for the third judge I'm waiting for any volonteer

for the challenge to work well we'll have to apply rule so here it goes

max size of 40X40
difficulty wanted around 2-3
number of colour : no restriction

this way it give chance to a maximum of people to do the puzzle

the puzzle gonna be judge on:

quality of the image
originality
rules requirement obtain
fun factor

So there is nothing to win except maybe having a star or something next to your name if you win ( have to see with Jan if that possible) but fun and time well spend is the reward

so if your interest your puzzle should be name

WC#1: ____________

that for weekly challenge #1 : your title

finally the them of week one: My favorite movie

hope you go for it

Sylvain

I don't mind being a judge. And to all of you out there who are wondering... I will pick the best puzzle, regardless of who made it. I won't tell why I DIDN'T pick the worst ones, only why I DID pick the best one. That way no one will be offended.

One other option... everyone could create a NEW account name, just for the weekly challenge, and that way I won't know who created which puzzle anyway. Then that person could have the satisfaction of knowing they won, and they can tell each other who they are behind my back, (if they want the praise of other users on here) so I won't ever know and therefore possibly be biased.

By the way, what date does this start? How about starting it yesterday 8-25-08 (and always running Monday through Monday), with judging every Tuesday.

thst fine by me but I don't think we need new id

as far as starting it yesterday I sugest next monday so it give time to put the word to everyone so this week gonna be like 1 and 1/2 week long them after that each monday new theme annoce and winner annonce on tuesday

glad you jump on board

Well, I don't want some people to think I am biased against them because I know who they are when they submit a puzzle entry for this contest. But if you say no new ID's, then ok.

but you wont be alone judging I'm there too

but if this is going to work we have to spread the idea

so lets slide it in our comment so that everybody see it

I know... but you know what I mean. We will have to find a time to be on together to chat, right? so we can decide, right? Or do we each pick the one we think wins, and then tell each other. If we each pick a different one, then we have to discuss it and find a winner.

OK I am going to post "READ TOPIC #112 IN GENERAL FORUM" on every recent puzzle, so almost everyone has a chance to read this and know about the idea. Probably most people won't want to participate, and that's ok. As long as they remember to let us know, in the first comment of their own puzzle, that they are submitting that particular puzzle for the contest of "........." (whatever the topic happens to be each week).

Hi. Saw some of your postings so I thought I'd check this out. Sounds like a good idea. Ought to be a lot of fun! :D. I'll get my thinking cap on and ready for next Monday.

Cool! We have our first participant!

if they read this topic they'll know how to rigthly name the puzzle elligible for the contest


as for choosing a winner I think that checking each puzzle them coming togeter maybe on the chat room or any other way could be really easy. I'm currently on parental leave so I'm at home all day until the end of september. but if we check a time and make sure we're both on

that or we can exchange e-mail or something. I'm on both myspace and facebook so I'm not to hard to catch

What's parental leave?

we adopt a child so I'm being pay to stay at home to make sure that the bond between parent and child solidify well

He had a baby, I am assuming. Like maternity leave, maybe he meant paternity leave. ???

So now let clarify a couple of small thing

1- the contest is now officialy open
2- you have up to monday september 1st noon (eastern time) to post your puzzle on theme #1 : my favorite movie
3- the new subject of week #2 gonna be post on this topic on september 1st in the evening
4- the first winner gonna be annonce either monday night or tuesday morning
5- all puzzle most have in the title WC# X : ________
that mean W = weekly C = challenge # X= being the week of the contest and the title of your new puzzle

awesome, congrats Sylvain on the adoption.

thanks

Jan can you tell me if it would be possible to add something ( star or other) beside the name of the people who win the weekly challenge

maybe even having a code if the same people win often like 5 win give you a red star 10 a green one or something

I know something like this is done on many forum and it indicate the number of time you post so can it be EASILY done cause I don't want to bother you with extra work on something as trivial as this.

If its not possible maybe I just open a new topic in wich I'll keep track of the diffrent winner ( that is if it work in the following weeks)

thanks

Sylvain

Might be easiest just to have an honor roll page that records each weekly contest winner with theme and a link to the puzzle. There could be link to that page from the main menu.

Please don't create separate id's for this. If your puzzle wins, it'd be nice if people can search for your other puzzles.

I don't want to be a judge (not that anyone asked). I'm in charge of enough things already.

that exactly why I didn't ask you personnatly and you comment on another puzzle about how everything you say became "official" so you try to not involve yourself in thing like that

plus you are one of the most lucrative vreator we need you to participate

:)

Jan now that its rolling and that we have more than one participant can you tell me how this honor roll page of you might work.

I think the way it could work is if you program the page and on tuesday we give you the winner to be include with the link to the honnor roll page.

I'm waiting to see how you want to be doing this

( plus it could be sweet of you to try posting a new puzzle since yours were the first I done here)

thanks Sylvain

PS: you can reach me by mail at theqwerty789@gmail.com if you want to discust other technicality

PS2:Adam you can do the same to check for the winner

Looks like I missed the weekly challenge :(
of course don't know if I have a favorite movie

Well, it doesn't matter. You can still do an image/puzzle from ANY movie. Today is the last day for this week's challenge, so you can still make it! Judging tomorrow.

So its now nearly 4 pm on monday september 1st ( easter time)

we have 7 puzzle on list at the moment. The official contest will close at 11 pm tonight ( still easter time)

And Adam and myself gonna annoce the winner sometime tommorow afternoon

As for WC#2 I'll annonce the theme tonight at 11 pm and application for it gonna be open until monday september 8 at 11 pm

thanks to all who participate and I hope the quality of the puzzle we receive will encourage other to send in new puzzle.

thank you again

Sylvain

Sylvain dear!
Does this mean it's time to hunt for easter eggs?
I'm just teasing... :p

GET ON CHAT QWERTY

ATTENTION

ATTENTION

Weekly Challenge #2 theme is: A place you need to see

it can be a monument, a country, a natural wonder or anything you think people should go see once in their life.

So lets get on the puzzle creator rigth now cause I can't wait for the first WC#2: puzzle to be out on the main site

Hi Sylvain, sorry I didn't enter weekly challenge #1, I was going to do one over the weekend but I ended up spending the last 4 days in hospital with Aiden, he got the flu, then when that was starting to get better a strange swelling came up on his right temple, we saw 5 docs, a couple of ultra sound docs and none of them knew what it was caused from, anyways it went down today (Tuesday) and they let him come home, thank goodness! He is perfectly fine, he will be on antibiotics for another week plus a follow up from his doc.
I love the new theme for the next challenge, we should see some pretty cool puzzles and I am already wondering what to create as my entry.
Congrats to the winner and place getters, there certainly was some great puzzles, I think I still have few to solve yet and I am looking forward to doing them. :)

Glad your son is doing better Marz. That can be scary. I look forward to seeing your entry.

thanks Marz I was wondering what happen to you since I did not see you for a couple of week

Thanks Jan this honor page is wonderful

My best to Aiden, Marz.

Just one lonely entry in WC#2 at this time

judging going to be easy at this rate...

Not really, because we won't know who to give the SECOND and THIRD place prizes to. LOL That will be difficult!

ATTENTION ATTENTION

after speaking with at least one other judges we decide that each user can only submit one puzzle by week.

There no restriction on submitting week after week and the best puzzle will win even if that mean making the same person win two or three week in a row

So no double entry in one week will be allow


Jan can you add this rule to the honr page

Jota can you signal me wich of your two puzzle for WC#2 you keep in competition


thanks all

Sylvain

I'll have to skip this challenge, as I'm heading out of town now. I'm definitely in for next week, though! Whatever it is.

I'd suggest allowing people to submit more than one puzzle, but limiting people to winning only one prize per week. So you can submit more than one puzzle, but you can't be both winner and runner up. If part of the goal of the contest is to encourage more posting of good puzzles, then why limit the number of puzzles a person can post? This would also absolve people from trying to choose which of their puzzles the judges will like best.

You made a good point here Jan I think that I'll follow your lead on this.

So yes you can entry more than one puzzle but only one of them can be in the 3 first place at the end


thank you for your well think argument once again

Very good suggestion Jan
Meg we will look forward to your next week :)

Ok.

dont know if this is the right place fore this but...

am I the only one who gets logout when I press the honors-button... Im guessing the code on the old button got left on

Jan told to reload the page by loging out going elsewhere and come back to log again

I bet there is a bug that logs people out who didn't log in with the remember me option. I'll fix it when I'm on a real computer.

it looks like that worked thanks Sylvian.

btw I think this contest is a great idea. Im going to try to make a puzzle fore this weeks challenge but dont know if i have time to make it look the way i want

COME ON
people we only got 5 WC#2 puzzle so far

still all week-end to create a wonderful "chef-d'oeuvre" ( or should I say masterpiece )

Can wait to see your creation

Sylvain

I'll do mine on Sunday! :P

good can't wait

Qwerty: Can I make mine 30x50? it adds up the same...let me know.

LOL, Telly. I am ok with that option, if the other judges are as well. But I am not the final say. What about 45x35? Or ANY combination that adds up to 80 total (around 2 edges)?

If nancy say its ok than ok since Adam id ok with it

The idea of Adam to make the grid size adaptable is nice

So for now on every combinaition that fit in between

20X60 (or 60X20) and 40X40 are accepted you can still go smaller if you want to

Rule are made to be ajust and that a great exemple of it

hey you made up the rules, who am I to say any different, so does that mean someone can do a 10x70? I guess it would all depend on what would fit comfortably on your screen..
I am a stickler for the rules, so to allow it you would have to change the rules..I'm not saying that I'm not flexible 'cause I would love to see Telly's puzzle, but you will need to draw the line somewhere, right!
I know that a larger size makes a puzzle easier to create...SO Sylvain/Adam what is the maximum height & width that you will allow? back in your corner :)

like I say in my last post anything between 20X60 and 40X40 are good as far as I'm concern but we can still go smaller

I don't really want 15X65, 10X70 or 5X75 those are to linear and don't make good puzzle

So with a minimum of 20 on one side and a maximum of 60 on the other side it keep the puzzle a reasonable size ( because the some of both size can't exceed 80)

So if Jan can find a simplier way to explain it and change it in the rule above the honor page I think we can go on like that.

Sylvain

ah you must have posted that while I was composing my comment
didn't get to read it

So Telly where is your puzzle?????

I was just wondering the same thing :)

Me three.

I agree. 20x60 at most, not to exceed 80.

thanks

it's coming.

Really? LOL Thanks.

You all have produced such wonderful puzzles..it is going to be a challenge for me to add my input in this weeks judging but at the same time I am so excited to be involved :)

We love to have you as a judge, Nancy.

thank you :)

Rules update

IMPORTANT MOST READ

After two week of WC we gather the three judge and feel that some of the rules as to be redefine so here are the new standard for the Weekly Challenge

-- The contest going to be run from monday morning to sunday night.

-- I'm going to post the winner (in post 114) and the new theme (in post 112) as early as possible on monday morning

-- Every puzzle as to be online by 7 pm on sunday (eastern time) to be eligible

--Puzzle name should always start by WC# X : to be consider

-- No colour limitation except if mention in the theme of the week

-- the size of the puzzle can not go higher than 80 when you add both side : ex: 10X70 or 35X45 or 50X30 all add to 80 so it can go from 1X79 (or 79X1) to 40X40 OR SMALLER

-- no more difficulty limitation but consider that we are aiming at a larger public so a difficulty around 3 is perfect

-- the puzzle most be logically solvable to be consider, if by the end of the week a puzzle still as a ? beside it, it will not be consider

-- A user can post more then 1 puzzle by week but can only have 1 of the three winning place

-- the puzzle are judge on *quality of the final image
* originality
* fun factor
* respect of the theme

Thank you all for your understanding and your collaboration

yours three judges
Sylvain, Adams and Nancy

Now that the technical stuff is behing me lets continue with the fun part

The official theme of WC#3 is

*********In my grocery bag************

So don't forget originality can make a big diffrent with a theme as mundane as this one

We are waiting for your puzzle...don't keep us waiting to long

yours three judges
Sylvain, Adam adn Nancy

Thank you so very much Jan for updating the honor page this fast
Plus you make the rule clearer than my version of them ( some say I can write it english at all so....)

your colaboration is so crucial to the good working of those weekly challenge

Jan, will you please change my username from "monkey" to "monkeyboy" on the Honors page (when referring to me as a judge). In fact, can you make it "Adam Nielson (monkey/monkeyboy)?" Thanks!

You see having dual ( make it triple) life can cause plenty of confusion and unecessairy trouble.... lol

Triple??? I only have 2 names.

And these are them. :-)

but I know your ugliest name from somewhere else...lol

I am sure I have more than one of those.

lol, what's his other name Sylvain?

ask him

OK everyone...we are counting down
need to get your puzzles in before sunday evening :)

10 puzzle enter so far in WC#3

Congratulation and thousand thanks to all.

Its getting harder for us judges but so cool to see all your creation don't let go you still have time to post yours before sunday 7 pm (aet)

11 puzzle so far still 45 min to go at this time in WC#3

rush if you want to make the deadline

Contest Close for WC#3
thank you all for entering now let us judge have our fun

Winner going to be anonce tomorrow morning in #114 and the new them here in #112

ATTENTION TO ALL

Since we're done with WC#3 let get thing rolling on WC#4

so this week theme is

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WC#4: Getting dusty on the shelf

SPECIAL RULE THIS WEEK

to add fun we decide to add a colour restriction for this week so all puzzle in WC#4 must have white / black and a third colour of your choice

any puzzle not following this special rule will not be considerate


Thanks you all and have a great week
your three judges
Sylvain, Adam, Nancy

Jan can you add the link to general topic 122 to the honor page since its part of the WC experiment

thanks

PS we decide to not kiss up to you so you didn't win las week...lol

7 pm on a sunday evening that mean one thing


WC#4 is close

the winners, the new theme for WC#5 and the 3 questions interview are going to be post later tonight, so check back in a while to get the headstart on week 5

PS: On a non puzzle relate manner:
Heroes season 3: volume 3 : Vilains
start tomorow:

8pm episode 3.0 Clipshow
9pm episode 3.1 The Second Coming
10pm episode 3.2 The butterfly effect

Yahoo!!!!

NEW THEME NEW THEME NEW THEME NEW THEME

did I catch your attention ???

so we start here the fifth week in this contest and I'm so happy to see everything going so well, thank you all

the theme of this week

WC#5: Hi my name is Todd

let me explain: We judges want to know who or what Todd is. It can be anything from a person to an animal, an object, a mystical creature, an alien etc

Let us discover your Todd we are eager to meet your version of Todd

The normal rule apply here no restriction this week

Sylvain, did you mean "HI my name is Todd?"

correction made

No Todd so far on Webpbn....snif snif snif

I want to know more Todd


lol

You will get your Todds I'm sure Sylvain, hold tight! :)

Come on guys only two entry so far this week in the WC

I'm sure you all have a Todd inside you that want to come out

I have got a Todd inside Sylvain, I just need to sit and concentrate real hard to get that Todd out and into pixel form, wonder if there is something I can take to help with that? :)

Sylvain, there is plenty of time. No need to pressure people into turning in a puzzle the first 1-2 days. You end up with poor quality like that. That's why Marz and Telly do so well. They take time, think about it, create it, edit it to near perfection, and submit it later in the week.

aah, how nice monkeyboy. lol marz. :)

I know but patience was never truly one of my strong point

I guess I dream about a week with 30 something puzzle to judge from, than again if that ever occur I'll be the first to bang my head to the wall with the difficulty that this will give me as a judge

the world can never be a perfect place it seem....lol

I think #2129 is pretty much the perfect "Todd" puzzle. Too bad it predates the puzzle contest and is too big to boot.

you are right about that Jan

but where is your Todd

Agreed! That one was terrific, Naneki!

& I'm one of the judges...thank you :)

WC#5 is close

check back here for WC#6 theme later

also don't forget to check topic 114 for winner and 122 for the interview

Judges should rate the puzzles themselves and not rely on "users" ratings, those can be "unfair". If someone decides that a puzzle is unsolvable, the puzzle has to be redone, whether that is true or not.

Thanks

Eventually I get around to correcting unsolvability ratings, or they correct themselves as more people do them. I wouldn't redo a puzzle unless you really agree that it is unsolvable.

I agree and I wouldn't do it, except that they take your puzzle out of the competition ...

new theme


WC#6: Starting with the letter P


anything as long as its start by P

Jan..you got the winners for #5 backwards on the Honors page

WC#6 officially close

check back later in #114 for the winner and here for the new theme

And don't forget to check the 3 questions interview with the winner in 122

your judges

new theme

new theme


The Theme of WC#7: On my computer screen

So here we are looking for beautiful icon, amazing pointer, great desktop, original website, fun game anything that we can see on the screen of a computer

WC#7 was a great week and thank you again for your amazing puzzle

now its time for the new theme, so this week theme

WC#8: Back in 1980-90

So let talk about what define the last two decade of the past century. Music, art, politic, anything that in your head mark those years

I can't wait to share your memories and compare them with mine :)

The honors page is now automated.

All the winners and themes and such are now in the database. There are two tabs on the page. One gives pretty much the same old display, the other gives the author rankings that Sylvain has been generating manually (and perfectly accurately) so far.

If and only if your login name is 'qwerty', 'monkey', 'naneki', or 'jan' then you should get a third tab. This allows you to enter the themes, due dates, and (if needed) additional notes for each week's puzzle. You can also enter the winning puzzles and their ranks. You can enter more than one at the same rank, or you can invent custom ranks in addition to the three standard ones, so if you ever want to give an award for "most egregious" or "miss congeniality" that that option exists.

I think the editing functions should be easy enough for our judges to figure out, but if anything is unclear, or if bugs crawl out of the cracks, please let me know.

wow thanks jan that going to be so perfect

Um, Jan... by chance can you make it "monkeyboy" and not "monkey?" Thanks.

Sometime you'll need to give us a map to your many identities. Why are there so many of you? What are they all for?

There is no "moneyboy". I've added "monkeyboy" to the WC admin list.

Jan when I try to acces the honor page I got an "internal server error" message

I can acces anything rigth now

Hmm.. works for me, even from your account. I guess I'll need to dig into the server error logs to figure this out.

I might have fixed it.

Jan, I don't have the third tab on the honors page under "monkey" or "monkeyboy."

work great from here thanks Jan

The way it goes now Jota going to have the 1st place she want since the start of the competition

A great puzzle but no competition at all and its already wednesday night

come on people don't tell me that the 80 and the 90 where not a good source of memories

Were you actually alive back then???? LOL

Yeah I was

born near the end of the 70's live my chilhood in the 80's and my teen/young adult in the 90's those are my years man

Unlike many of you I hadn't have the chance of seeing the Beetle come to america or Jim morrisson live on stage but I still got cool memories of later in the century... ;-)

Sure thing, man. It was a joke. I know how old you are. :-)

older than you :)

Really? Don't be too sure.

I respect the judges very much, but I don't like being made fun of.
The fact that I take the contest very seriously, and comply with all the rules on time, doesn't mean I don't deserve to win (A very hurt Jota)

I hope you aren't truly upset. I don't think Sylvain meant anything by it. Yes you are one of the first to complete your puzzles, and you comply with the rules. They are nicely done.

You're wonderful Jota. That's why it takes us all so long to submit puzzles that may, just may, be able to compete with yours. :)

Come on Monkeyboy, come on Telly ...

I'm serious. I don't know what you are "come on'ing" about.

Of course I'm not truly upset! Who can be upset around this wonderful site! It's all about having fun and taking life as lite as one can while one can.

Jota I truly didn't want my message to hurt you the joke was not about a lack of talent on your part but on the lack of participation on the part of all other member. I would never make fun about a creative talent. You are always one of the first one to throw a puzzle in and that wonderful. Many time in the past week your puzzle where consider in the top 3 until the very end. It was just a fun remark on the fact that you said in another place that you enter the WC to win the thing ( and I'm sure this is going to happen one day)

So being the only entry so far this week it was just a crack at that statement, and in no way a hit toward you creative quality. In fact I'm so please that you alway produce one if not many puzzle avery week I truly thing that in a way you broking the ice each week help other following you and posting their puzzle.

So let me officially apologize for the harm I could have done you it was in no way the meaning. I just hope that this misunderstood won't refrain you to do more WC

sorry again
Sylvain

Curiously, this theme brings nothing at all to my mind. Two whole decades. I should be able to think of something. I guess I was busy.

So, Jan... once again, I will point out that I don't have the third administrative tab under the Honors link. I guess this means I have to resign as judge. Oh darn.

I was joking, I got it from the beginning Qwerty ... I was never upset or hurt, no need to apologize. I have a great sense of humor and when I said: " a very hurt Jota" I was ROFL and should have indicate it.
:)

adam, what tabs do you have on the honors page?

"Winning Puzzles" and "Author Rankings."

I'll check deeper into that bug when I get a chance. I'd be curious to hear if Nancy is seeing it. The third tab says "Update Listings".

yes Jan I have the tab that says "Update Listings".

Well, I must have pissed Jan off pretty good for him to not put that tab on mine. :-)

Odd. As far as I can tell, the setup on the monkey and monkeyboy accounts is exactly like the naneki account. Need to test more.

The WC #8 is close


we are going to do thing a little diffrent now since I can edit the honor page myself.

Topic 112 going to serve as a general topic on WC. If you have comment to post or question to the judges or anything on the general working of the challenge its the place to post

I'll still going to annoce the new theme here since I can explain the name of the theme easily in the post rather than just the tilte in the honor page.

For comment and congratulation on the winning puzzle we are going to continue using topic 114. So all winner can post comment or be congratulate there. I WON'T POST winner on topic 114 but only in the honor page ( same think for the ranking)

The 3 questions interview stay the same in topic 122

thank you

WC#9 theme

USE TO BE SO COOL, BUT NOW...


So we are looking for objet, fashion , music , film, or any other thing that at one time in the past where hip cool The Thing, but now... not really

(hint: the disco period give us plenty of it...)

I have absolutely nothing against Rea, but I need to keep you judges honest, that puzzle was marked and needing guessing (not by me) and very difficult.
If you establish rules, you need to follow them.
Thank you for the honorable mention.

the ? was still there ...oups I'll check that with maybe Jan and the other judge and if so its our fault and we are going to correct it.

Thank you for mentionning

I've checked the puzzle and it is logically solvable with a little color and edge logic.

Generally one shouldn't have too much faith in the "?" if when you open the puzzle it says "may require some guessing" instead of "requires some guessing". If it says "may" then it is just the average of various people voting, which can be quite unreliable.

In this case two people said it needed "much guessing", one said "some", and five said "none". That averaged out as "some" but only just barely. The majority of the people solving the puzzle didn't rate it.

The slightly weird part is that the two people who said it needed "much" guessing were both the same user who happens to have two accounts for some reason and also happens to be one of the judges, and is generally a pretty sophisticated solver who I would think would know better. But weirdness happens, which is why it says "may".

I should point out that this kind of weirdness from individual users tends to sort itself out in time, as more people rate the puzzle. But WC puzzles are usually less than a week old, and often have very few raters so the ratings are often kind of random. I would strongly advise the judges to ignore the ratings and make their own judgments about the quality and solvability of puzzles.

wow Jan, What else do you know about all of us? (lol)
I think it's pretty cool that you can look into the ratings & see who & how everyone is rating. But I guess since you are the final judge on the ratings, you would need to know that in order to give a fair & final rating to a puzzle.
Very interesting :)

Why don't you make it so that in order to finish a puzzle, you must rate it, so that anyone who solves a puzzle must give it a rating. Or how about do away with ratings all together, since apparently they don't matter. Or leave only the quality rating?

I think the rating system is great, it has never caused major problems in the past, if enough people rate the puzzles and rate them properly it gives us a good idea on the quality and difficulty. I have solved many puzzles, and I have often used the ratings as a guide to chose them before I do them, and they have pretty much lived up to their ratings, and for that I am grateful! :)

For the most part, I agree with you. The problem is, however, that not enough people rate the puzzles, and the few who do are basically skewing what really should be there.

Yeah, I know!

So that, to me, is more of a problem than having people not rate anything.

I don't like the idea of being forced to rate puzzles. This will just mean that people choose a standard rating and use that on most of the puzzles. This will not give a better rating system.

There have been studies of this done. M²'s intuition is correct. Forced ratings tend to be bad. Obviously the database does store everyone's ratings, and obviously I can look at them. I don't usually. But sometimes when a puzzle is voted to have multiple solutions but I don't think it does, then I look to see who is saying it does, to see if I should maybe defer to the majority.

It was just a thought, people. Looks like there is no way to have it done right.

Back in Sept. I proposed the solution (#97) for the WC. My opinion was not taken taken, no changes were made in the rules.
That week, I had made a solvable puzzle, but "someone" marked it as "needs guessing" and I had to work on it and change a good puzzle until the "helper" did solve it, or it was going to be taken out of the competition, as per the "rules" and one of the judges advice. To try to further prove my point, the following week, I rated another puzzle as "needs guessing" and it was"unfairly" taken out of the competition. That's why I thought that giving a prize to a ? puzzle this week was inappropriate. Please change the rules!

Sorry

Jota, I see your point. But like has been mentioned before, the guessing aspect is skewed. I guess Jan has to be the final authority on whether or not guessing is required. If he says no guessing is required, then a puzzle may be considered eligible for the WC. I personally don't care. Maybe the other 2 judges do, and I would value their input.

I have personally solved many difficult puzzles that were rated as "guessing required" without me having to guess at all(using some advanced logic.) There have been other puzzles that were marked as "no guessing required", and even rated as easy-ish (1-3 in difficulty) that I had no idea how they could be that way, and I had to guess (even after restarting multiple times to see if I missed something).

I am sure I am not the only one in this situation, and I don't know what to do about it. Any other suggestions? People have poo pooed my idea of making everyone rate every puzzle they solve, or to do away with ratings altogether, or to just have quality ratings. But no one else has come up with anything better.

We made the no guessing rule to have a cetain quality and fun factor in the puzzle listed under WC

the problem is and probably always going to be that what hard for me can be so easy to someone else and vice versa.

So the only thing that we can do here is ask people to note a puzzle as guessing require only if they are sure that its the puzzle that as flaw and not their ability to solve that not good enough

Personally I just want puzzle to be great and fun to solve and open to all, so if the puzzle really need guessing it can cause many user to not try it so that why I don't consider it in the contest. But rule are bondarie that can be move when the necessity of it is rigthful

I don't really see a problem here. Most of these "rules" are really meant as guidelines as to what kinds of puzzles the judges are looking for. That means not really big puzzles, not really difficult puzzles, not puzzles with multiple solutions, or which cannot be solved without guessing. Puzzles that are fun to solve and have nice images.

The judges choose the puzzles that best fit their criteria. They "logically solvable" part, as well as the "not to difficult" part and the "fun to solve" part will be up to the judgement of the judges. None of these are black and white crisply defined properties. That's why we have judges. To use judgement.

If a puzzle gets marked by some random user as being not logically solvable, then, of course, the judges are free to ignore that or respect that as they deem appropriate, just as they are not required to give the top prize to the puzzle that has been rated highest by other users. Obviously a puzzle creator may have cause to concern if their puzzles get bad ratings, and may even want to revise the puzzle, but these ratings should not be considered to constrain the choices of the judges.

ok what happen here are you all tired of the WC cause last week we had very few puzzle and this week only one so far and its already friday morning

no puzzle from Jota, rea marz telly( probably post her's sunday at 6 pm) and all other regular participant.

If the theme choosen for the wc are the problem tell it to me I'll find new one

Jan put a lot of time in the honor page and I find it sad that now that we can edit this page at will the WC seem to die slowly.

Do you all wich us to continue or not?

im sorry sylvian I just don't have time this week. I think the theme was a little hard this week but I definately don't want the competition to stop. Ill try to make a quick small one but I haven't got any idea of what to do.

Don't stop, it's lots of fun... You'll have mine as soon as I can think of something. This week's theme and the previous one where kind of similar perhaps? Well anyhow please continue.

they were similar, but I'm gonna think of something. :)

its that time again

WC#9 officially close

this week 7 puzzle were elligible: 3841 3856 3858 3861 3862 3870 3878

good luck to all

New theme: Scary, Spooky, Terrifying little image

lets all have fun with the season theme and all the fun around Halloween and the "horror" that came with it

can wait to be scare by your puzzle

WC# 10 is now close

winner anonce later tonight

good luck

New theme

New Theme


WC#11: On the menu

So here we are looking for anything that can be eat or drink from fast food junk to 5 star restaurant if it can be swallow it good for this week appetizing theme

good luck to all participant

Don't you people eat anything

its saturday evening and we still don't have enougth puzzle in this week WC to get a full podium

what the matter here ????

My heart is pounding so fast ...

I can't think. I've had a brain freeze all week on this one. I'll hopefully think of something fun by tomorrow.

One contest theme I'd like to see is "Beginner Puzzles". I spent a lot of time once designing puzzle #1, to be small and easy, yet have a decent image and make a good demonstration of basic puzzle solving techniques. It'd be nice to have more such puzzles.

Nice idea

I'll check that like a max size of 15X15 only b&W difficulty under 2.5

Most, if not all, puzzles that are logically solvable, at that size, by default should be under difficulty of 2.

Are you ok with this theme Adam?

What about Nancy? if you are both in fort it then tonight new theme going to be the one suggest by Jan

I am fine with it. Let's do it.

sure, sounds like something that would get others involved

WC #11 is now officially closed (I am acting officially under Sylvain's direction).

Winners will be announced later this evening. Thank you and good luck to everyone who entered.

New Theme:

WC#12 Beginner's Puzzle

here we are looking for great small and easy puzzle

Think of it as the puzzle you want to show to somebody that has never play before to get it to like that.

the maximum size of those puzzle this week is 15X15 ( or a max of 30 when you add the two )

Black and white only no colour

the objet of the puzzle as no restriction everything is open as far as the theme in the puzzle

good luck to all participant

Idea for the next theme: Odds and Evens - All row clues are odd numbers, and all column clues are even numbers (or vice versa). What do you think?

Hmm... have you tried doing that? I think it might be pretty difficult, especially if you want a good picture too. If it's as hard as I think it might be, it might be hard to get three decent entries.

I think that as interesting as it seem as a challenge we won't get enought participant to fill the podium.

Just check back in the past 11 week to see that as soon as its to challenging or specific you don't get too much entry.

The idea behind the WC was to help new creator in the search of an idea on what to do in a puzzle. Plus it help certain people to know that the puzzle they do is appreciate by other. It give more puzzle to solve plus give new people the chance to express themself.

Your idea is great Jake try it and challenge other to try do better then you in the first comment of your puzzle I'm sure certain member will try to do it ( maybe even 1 or 2 of our judge at WC) but as far as the WC theme I'll try to stay more mainsteam for a little time

We are getting a GREAT response this week & it's only Wednesday ...I'm so excited, we will have so many to chose from..keep them coming :)

Oh My Goodness..so many puzzles, so many possibilities, they are "ALL" so perfect for the theme this week.....
what to do? ...what to do?
(I had to open my mouth & say keep them coming!)

This was an incredible week, I'm sure it was a record in number of participants.
Yeah!

19 and counting... (excluding the 3 from the judges)

WC #12 is officially closed. Thanks to the many of you who entered. Due to inability of the 3 judges to be able to conference together, the judging will be delayed until further notice. We will post the winners as soon as possible. There are many entries, and we want to take our time to ensure the best results possible.

The new theme for WC#13 is......

ANIMALS! Anything animal related. Back to normal requirements, 40x40 size (max), any number of colors, etc.

Good luck to everyone.

Oh my God!
IASN
Besos

Apparently your wish is Sylvain's command! LOL

"IASN???"

I have no idea what I meant, probably I Am Surprised and Numb.

SHE'S HOOKED!!
I had my daughter help me with my decision making this week on judging which ones would be more of a "beginner" puzzle (since I couldn't go by quality first... I was so lost!) anyway, when I came home from work today she asked me to print her up some more beginner puzzles.

guess now I won't be a "nut" for doing this puzzles all the time

LOL, Nancy. That's awesome!

hey guys I'm back let me a couple of hour and I contact you with my choice for WC 12

so many pc problem so not many time to fix

The winner of week 12 are on (finally)

ROFL at "MUST BE DONE ABSOLUTELY" on honors link, under WC#12.
Sylvain, please people know that you put that there and not me. :-) I am still laughing.

Yes it was my idea...Rofl

lol

Common, I thought this was a serious contest :)

It IS! My puzzle was so SERIOUS(ly easy) LOL

It did get Adam on the author ratings list, though with rather a low score.

Sylvain, take me off that list, please...LOL.

I tried to do it myself, but once again, my 3rd tab on the Honors link to mess with this kind of stuff is mysteriously missing. It has come and gone twice.

That list is automatically generated from the other list. Sylvain can't take you off without removing the "joke" entry from the other list.

I should probably fix the "top authors" list to not include people with a total score of zero.

That works, too.

that a great idea since Adam puzzle really need to get notice

Can also be use when one of us judge do a great puzzle in a non-contest wc theme

WC#13 is now officialy close

winner to be annonce later tonight


see ya all

New Theme annonce

WC#14: Favorite song, Favorite Book

here we are looking for your favorite song or your favorite book. The only catch we don't want you to write it to us but to show it to us in image. So no letter puzzle will be accept for this week. Put in image the title of your song or book.

good look to all

WC#14 officially close

winner will be annonce later tonight

thanks to all who enter

NEW THEME:

WC#15: create your WC logo

after 15 weeks the Weekly Challenge don't really have an image so I was thinking what a better way to find an identity to the WC then by letting you create this identity. So the only think I ask is no plain letter puzzle. If you choose to make it a letter logo be creative, it possible to do both a creative puzzle and a letter puzzle, been done before and could be done again.

Good luck to all

Like it was said in another topic Adam as of today is no longuer a judge in the WC. This situation sould be temporary and in the mean time we are looking for a third interim judge. Nancy and I have ask Jota to do the job in the absence of Adam. We ask her for her implication here in the commentary and as a puzzler who solve and post many puzzle on a regulaiar basic.

If any other user want to give is name in case of Jota refusal fell free to do so, it would be an honor to have you on the team.

If Adam can not take is "job" back after a while we'll consider putting the interim position as a permanent one

thank you all

Oh! to substitute for Adam or not to, that's the question.

:-)

but what the answer????

we need your honesty and free spirit

I'm available of course, I love to compete, but I'll anything to keep this site going. I sent you a gmail.

thank a receive it check back for the chatting invitation

If everything goes well you could start competing again soon

Come guys wednesday already and no WC#15 being post

What the deal??? is the theme so hard to come up with something ??? Its basically a letter puzzle week should be easy no???

Tell me if anything need to be done or should we let go??

I'm definitely goiong to submit one. I go to sleep thinking about possible designs. I just can't decide - funny or fancy? B&W or color? Oh my! Maybe one of each.

B&W!!!!!!

im working on two at the moment one is done only needs a title the other one I dont like my W jet.

WC #15 is close

New theme

WC#16 Christmas and Holiday fun

x-mas theme puzzle and holiday celebration are what we want to see this week. With Christmas approaching we all turn back to our kids day when Rudolph, Frosty and Santa were mystic figure of the winter wonderland waiting to open our X-mas gifts listening to old Christmas classic sung by Bing Crosby or Dean Martin...

lets the magic of Christmas free in this week theme.

PS: By the way I think that Meg could enter at least one of her advent puzzle as WC#16: advent # X what do you think???

Of course ! And we should also accept Hannukah or other holiday puzzles, don't you think ?

yeah all off them are in

Jan can you edit the honor page to show that Jota as replace Adam since it seem to be a permanent thing plus she is doing an excellent pr job rigth now ( plus she should have acces to the edit page too)

thank you

Although the sheer entertainment, and challenge, are really incentive enough to participate in these contests, the term contest implies winners, and I was wondering if there were prizes in the offing? Then, when is usually the beginning and ending of a weekly contest?
Thank you, Jan, for inviting me to participate, and yes I will as soon as I find and formulate a suitable subject.

It runs from monday morning to sunday by 7 pm (eastern time).
This week, every contestant gets ALL his/her wishes granted during the Holiday Season, courtesy of the three judges or is it the three wise men ? Or one man and two women ?

Jota is now on the honor page as judge so that make it VERY official

A big round of applause for our new WC judge

hourray hourray hourray

Doing an excellent job of PR I must add

Jota Jota ! Rah! Rah! Rah!

gee I didn't s good greeting when I joined :(

just kidding!

Naneki Naneki ! Rah ! Rah! Rah!

lol thank you :)

WC#16 is now close

thanks everyone

New theme

new theme

new theme

WC#17: Christmas Song

So lets "Deck the hall" with "Jiggle Bells" so that both "Rudolph the red nose reindeer" and "Frosty the snow man" can enjoy they're "Holy Night" in this wonderful " Winter Wonderland"

and so on .....

it can be a title, or just a line but it as to go with a Christmas song

good luck everyone

I think "Jiggle" Bells is the funniest thing you have said, LOL. I'm still laughing. :-)

Adam: check this site: http://www.zazzle.com/jiggle_bells_shirt-235544528746918192

Thanks Adam!! I had to go back and read it twice ... and then wait to stop laughing before I could compose this post.
<smile>

LOL. I can pick on Sylvain for his speech, and I usually don't anymore. But once in a while, he lets something slip that just gets me rolling! :-)

nanana lets laugh about the french men nanana

you can do what you want you lowly peon....

jk

WC#17 is now officialy close

thank you all for your participation

winner will be anonce soon

New Theme

WC18: This is my best puzzle

I decide to give you a small gift since its the season for that.

For the next two week the WC give you a free by, you can post any puzzle you want in the contest, free theme for all of you and for 2 week.

The only catch is that you can only post one puzzle by user so that why its call my best puzzle.

Normal size and color restriction apply

Good luck to you all

See you all on Jan 4 2009

Withy the holyday and all we only get 2 post ( even if every puzzle 40X40 and under are ok with the free theme)

So I prolonge this week competition to jan 11 2009

good luck to all

Sylvain, I'm intimidated by the theme this time. I'm afraid I'll create something and everyone will be thinking "*that's* your best puzzle?"

I don't think you are alone in that thought, Arduinna.

ok make this This is my best this week .....

ATTENTION ALL Webpbn fans, IF YOU DO NOT PARTICIPATE ON WC # 18 YOUR ACCESS TO THIS SITE "MIGHT" BE RESTRICTED FROM NOW ON ... DON'T LAUGH, DON'T GET ANNOYED JUST PUBLISH YOUR ENTRY OR ELSE ... I'll start being very MEAN to you ...

Uh oh... "Them's fightin' woids!"

lol. I'm just too intimidated to do a "best" puzzle.

Why, because all of yours are "best?" LOL

nope, lol...none of them are.

Right.... and you happen to be the leader on the WC leaderboard for points because none of your puzzles are good. Ok, I see. LOL

I didn't say they weren't good...just not my "best".

LOL I love the confidence (not arrogance).

lets all forget that best thing its just me not kinowing how to name a free theme week so let do your best this week and post one puzzle eachor Jota is going to banned you from here ( with the help of Jan but that another story....)


lets go people

LOL, Sylvain

Listen to the knowledge from the NORTH, after all HE is the MAN.

I have an idea and its not intimidation that's preventing me from creating/posting it ... its time. But I'm going to make an effort on Saturday to do something so hopefully I'll have one posted by Sunday.

No promises tho ...

PLEASE DO ...

we need an other volunteer to be a judge...I have been so swamped lately I'm having a hard time meeting up with Sylvain & Jota ...any volunteers??

WB, Nancy

WC#18 is now close

Oh, please give me just five more minutes!!!:)

NEW THEME: WC#19 REAL SIZE PUZZLE

the think here is to draw objet on a real scale image, so if the objet is small enought to be draw on a max 40X40 grid its on.

No space shuttle this week or no panoramic view of the great canyon. Instead lets brind out the usb key, the pen, the dice, the watch etc any objet or toy or "thing" that can be draw at it real size will be accept

good luck to all

WC#19 is close

NEW THEME

the them of WC #20 ( 20 week wow that great, thank you all)

SYMBOL OF MY CITY

all city have either a flag, an emblem or a landmark that is esasily associate with it. For ex but not in the contest the NY of the Yankees is New York emblem for year, hear in Montreal we got the Olympic Stadium wich have the highest inclined tower of the world to represent us etc

so lets find of what YOUR town "look" like

good luck to all

WC #20 is close

WC new theme

WC21: USA past, present futur

ok its simple as of Meg idea to celebvrate the new president arrival to the oval office we're going to make a USA theme weekly challenge.

Anything that commemorate the USA in any form is eligible. It can be from the past ( old president, historical fact, glorious event) the present ( state representation, actual situation, Big Mac ((jk)) ) or the futur ( Georges Clooney in the white house who can tell...lol)

The only restriction is that at least one pixel of red, white and blue must appear in the final image.

good luck with those puzzle after all the majority of them are going to be "Made with proud in the USA"

see ya sunday

And as always, the size cannot be more than 80.

WC #21 is now close

thanks once again for entering puzzle of this quality wekk after week

new theme

WC#22 Sport Logo

wich team is your favorite, can be hockey, baseball, football, basketball, soccer, anything else as long as its a pro, semi-pro or collegial team its ok

so let us see your "color" let the chant begin

WC #22 is over

Is there a WC#23? Also, when I looked at my Forum list, this particular string is no longer on the line-up. Has it been moved, or is it just me?

oups forgot to write it in here

New THeme

WC#23 Love, Love, Love

color restriction this week all puzzle must be in red and white only (since there no pink)


PS: Always look in the Honors page for the new theme topis #112 only explain it when needed

Ok I'm going to try something here

I'll anonce next week theme rigth away on Wednesday for one unique reason, I want people who would consider entering WC#24 to really work on their design before posting it, follow me you'll understand

I think I can say without a douth that the majority of us dislike lettre or pattern puzzle, but at the same time some of those puzzle as turn out very cool in the past (I did a couple of them myself that I don't think are that bad), so the challenge is that : PROVE US WRONG by doing either a pattern or a letter puzzle that both fun to solve and great looking.

So the the of WC#24 is : Prove us Wrong, patterns & letters

last thing to avoid mixing thing up please do not post WC#24 puzzle until sunday night

thank you all and good luck
Sylvain

WC#23 is close

So with WC23 over its now time for all of you in Webpbn to PROVE US WRONG by creating amazing pattern or Letter base puzzle

I know it can be done so let go I'll be waiting

See you all next sunday

WC#24 is over

result and new theme later tonight

New Theme

WC25: in my backyard


show us what in your backyard, is it a pool, a garden, a pile of junk....anything can be possible

I could do a puzzle of what's in my backyard right now, but I really don't need the trouble with the cops.

We won't tell 'em where you live, Twillis! ;)

LOL

I could easily do a puzzle of my yard right now but no one gets too excited at an all white puzzle. That's right - 4-8 inches today with high winds and "blowing and drifting snow."

If I get back off my butt and start designing again I could do what I last saw last fall ...

Same here WHITE WHITE WHITE !

WC#25 is close

winner and new theme to follow later tonight

WC#26 theme

Must see TV

What we are looking for is logo from tv channel. With Adam great logo serie I tought it could be cool to do more, and with his approuval there is the chance.

With satelite TV the number of channel from around the world is mesmerising. All those great specialise channel with great stuff on TV and usually great logo. So zap a little around your cable TV or on the web and show us the nicest TV channel logo out there.

Please to help us judges please add the links to the channel website so we can double check on the logo if we don't know it.

See you all next sunday

No WC#26 puzzle yet and its already wednesday come on people this theme is easy and you got plenty of choice

Okay, Silvain! :-) I'm excited about the WC, as usual. I just have one problem. I have 3 of them ready to go; I just am not sure which one to enter in the WC. I think I will post the regular logos as regular puzzles, and will enter the original creation to the WC.

you can post more than one each week but only one of them can be in the top 3

WC#26 is over

result and new theme will follow

New Theme

WC#27 If I got only one wish by a cheap genie


So you found a magic lamp rub it and out come a genie. Onlyu thing is the genie is a cheap one and decide to give you only one wish instead of three, what would it be. Think hard you don't get two more wish to rectifie the situation only one, but it can be anything.

wc 27 is over


result and theme soon

WC#28 theme

Kiss me !!!! I'm Irish


With St-Patrick day nearby we all feel a little Irish, so lets pick up this feeling and do something about the Irish culture, history, folklore anything is good if its Irish.

One more thing you must have at least one pixel (better if more) of green. Green beer??? maybe not :-)

Wc #28 is now officially close

good luck to all

result and new theme explanation will follow shortly

( look like every sunday I'm repeating myself here...)

New theme:
WC#29 Out of the Past: A treasured toy or favorite game from your childhood

So this is one of Teresa idea that she gave in her interview last week and its an honor to use it this week.

We all have precious memory of at least one toy or one game that we enjoy so much as a child. Lets share those memorie here and show us wich game or toy still bring a little smile at the corner of your mouth.

Lets play....

WC#29 is now close

NEW THEME


WC#30 Mythical Creature

anything is open from fairy to minautor to foan to gnome to... I think you get it

If everyone know about it but they do not really exist its in lets bring the mythical side of pbn.com to live

Wc#30 is close thank you all

New theme WC31: My version of...


Please read this with great attention.

This is the idea, after 30 theme in the WC we had tons of great puzzle idea. This week we honor those idea. The challenge is to take any WC puzzle from week 1 to 30 and do your own version of it. The idea here is to take the idea behind the puzzle and make it your own. (Ex: this week winner Telly did a uncorn, so you can do your version of a unicorn)

An important factor is that you don't have to follow the puzzle restriction if they was any. What that mean is that you can do a puzzle from USA week in black and white or a puzzle from beginner week in the usual 40*40 format.

Please insert the puzzle number in the first comment so we can know wich one your doing a remake of.

Last note you can't do a remake of your own puzzle

thank you all I can wait to rediscover old WC puzzle in your new version of it

Hi! It´s there a way to find a list of WC puzzles?

Go the the "Honors" link on the left, (just above the "Logout" button) and it will give you all 30 themes, and the top 3 winning puzzles of each. Beyond that, you have to go back manually and search one by one between puzzles # 3346 and #5509. Anyone else know any better way?

Jan is there a way to find all WC past puzzle???? since the search engine don't reconize WC as a word to find something

Since the search won't work on WC, could you maybe replace WC in puzzle titles with something like "WEEKLYC" and then that would be searchable?? Don't know if that's possible with your database.

Since its Easter week-end and the fact that there is no easy way yet to find old WC puzzle ( except those in the honnor page) I'm extending this week theme for one more week so WC#31 end on sunday april 19

thank you all

Thanks Sylvain! I was searching last night and still hadn't found one to revise. Hopefully I will by then!

WC#31 is over thank you all

WC#32 theme is

Music to my ...eye???


anything about music is good, from album cover to instrument to music sheet to ipod to a complete band or a band logo as long as its in link with music is consider eligible for this week

good luck to all

Adam screw with the honor page so until this is back to normal the contest for WC32 continue for another week

OK WC 32 is over and out

check later for winner and new theme

New theme

PLEASE NOTE: puzzle should now be entere as follow

WPC# XXX: title

making it WPC instead of just WC will make it possible for the search engine to find those puzzle if you do a search. Plus back WC puzzle will eventually be change from WC to WPC. Thank you all

So WPC#33: battery needed

anything that require battery is good here. remenber to battery come in diffrent size and can make about anything goes. So please be creative and original we judges don't want to choose between 200 cell phone ( one or to diffrent model is good but not more)

see you next sunday

WPC remember it

thanks

SORRY! As agreed the name should be this week:

#33 WCP: And the title for your Battery needed puzzle

Do want people to start renaming their old puzzles then?

Also, is it WCP or WPC?

I would say WCP for "weekly challenge puzzle"

Ah, but Weekly Puzzle Challenge also makes sense!

It's a conundrum!

You are right, but I figured since it was already the WC (for weekly challenge) that it made sense to put the P on the end. But we can do it your way. It really doesn't matter. And since I am the one who reinforced calling it WCP, they will probably go with WPC, just to spite me. :-)

It's# xx WCP "Title"

It was already discussed and decided in Topic #163. Just the way Jota stated.

I'd a feeling it was 'WCP', but Sylvain put 'WPC' so consistently in #303 I wasn't sure.

my fault its clearly

# XX WCP title

hope everyboby got it clear now we discust this so many time but now I think we can settle with number wcp than title

thank you all

#33 WCP is close

result and new theme coming later tonight

the new theme is

#34 WCP: Worth 10 points in Scabble


looking for anything that start with either a Q or a Z

good luck to all

Congratulations Meg! Once again heeere we go:
1.- Was it difficult to decide publishing 2 of your 3 puzzles this week?
2.- Do you set your cellular to a ring tone or vibrate?
3.- How did you know my favorite song is: Fly me to the moon?

I think these questions might be in the wrong place... ;-) How about if I copy them over to Forum 122 and answer them there?

Sorry too much Mother's Day!

Due to the fact the 2 of the 3 judge were not available tonight I extend the #34 theme to another week

so you still got 7 day to post puzzle with letter Q or Z don't give up yet plenty of possibility still untaped

WCP #34 is now close

result and them for WCP #35 later tonight

OK Attention to all

Starting this week we are going to give each new theme 2 week instead of one. It happen a couple of time in the past for diffrent reason and we find out that having a second week to work on a theme give great result so let make this a permanent feature for now.

So #35 WCP: Tackiest thing I ever saw

lets find out what you thing is very tacky, out of style, ugly but not cool enought to be kish

you know those fur dice for the review mirror or those talking fish we can put to the wall think of it there is so many thing that people tend to keep even if it smell tacky just by looking at it....

and don't forget you got until June 7 to submit your puzzle for #35WCP

ok so you got 2 week but this is not a reason to wait until the last two day to submit new puzzle

come on tacky thing that an easy theme

Do you know how hard it is to make a plaid leisure suit out of pixels in a 40x40 setting? :)

lol

WCP #35 est terminé

New theme


#36 WCP: under the sea


anythying that in the water of our big blue ( or green) sea is ok

Be original there's more than just plain fish under the sea many type of creature ( both mystical and real) live down there. Plus there is boat, tresor, atlantis and so many other thing that can be discover for those brave enought to go down there.

have fun see you in 2 week

already 5 day in #36 wcp and no entry, I'm a little bit disapointed

I'm at my family reunion right now, or I would be working on my entry. I'm at a resort on a harbor near Green Bay ("up north" as they say here in Wisconsin), so I'm sure to get some ideas over the next few days. Hmmmmmm, everything I see is above the sea.

I'm processing some ideas and hope to get my stuff together enough to make an entry. Pretty bad a keeping promises lately so I won't make one ...

wcp #37 is close

winner and new theme annonce soon

Hey everyone one week gone and one to go for WCP#38: Africa

only two puzzle post this far, I'm pretty sure many of you can think of a puzzle idea with something as large as Africa as a theme

Keep up the good work we are anxiously waiting for your african inspired creation

I thought there were two weeks for the Africa contest, but the contest page says the due date was yesterday - is it over already?

No Meg it's not over, 1 more week a little mistake on the page.

Okay, I'm glad to hear that!

I correct that rigth away sorry

Its always 2 week now I just forgot to change the date

#38 WCP is now over thanks everyone for your participation

winner will be anonce a bit later

#39 WCP : CARS


this is the new theme folks cars

everything that touch a car ( or a truck) is good from what in or on your car to your favorite model to a part of the engine anything is fair play as long as its in one way or another relate to a car

let roll ( pun intended) into this new theme

see ya all in two week

NEW THEMES

Since its summer vacation time I decide to give you the two nest theme rigth away

This week for #40 WCP: ASIA

anything that can be associate with ASIA past present futur fictive is great

We got great respond in the Africa theme so we decide to jump to another continent


#41 WCP: From pages of a book

take your favorite scene from a book bocome director of its pbn adaptation.

From romance novel to epic sc-fi saga to kids book it doesn't matter just give us the name of the book it came from (and maybe if you want even the pages) so we can know what you are talking about.

Don't now why but I think we're going to see romantic vampire aren't we... :-)

NOTE: No puzzle for this WCP will be accept if post before monday august 17

thank you all

#40 WCP is closed

you can now submit puzzle for #41 WCP

result will follow in a couple of minute

WCP # 41 is now close

the result and the theme of WCP#42 will follow in a couple of minute

WCP#42: objet

SPECIAL RULE #1 : Black and White puzzle only

SPECIAL RULE #2 : 20X20 grid only

SPECIAL RULE #3 : real object only, no interpretation of the theme

I'm really enjoying this sudden spurt of black and white 20x20 puzzles.

great to please you Jan ( you can contribute you know...)

I must agree that it is fun to have all the new 20x20's. I love it! And they are all so good! Thanks everyone!

ditto #343

I especially liked the fact that most of them can be completed in 15 minutes or less. I like taking the time to do the larger ones (45 to 60 in dimensions), but they can take a few days to do, given my work schedule. I've even been found slumped over in the computer chair, asleep. But these are a bit rejuvenating.

OK its 6:55 and I'm closing this amazing wcp week ( 2 weeks actually) with a grand total of 39 sumited puzzle ( 20 of those by a record breaking performance by Robyn)

thank you all

the result of this WCP and the new theme should follow soon

#43 WCP: Somewhere out there

special rule this week:

#1: free interpretation of the title so lets have fun

#2: grid size must be 55 long by 25 high ( looking for panoramic kinda 16:9 image here)

#3: no colour restriction

#4: no white lign or no white colum at least one pixel must be in every lign or colum

have fun good luck surprise us

Thanks, Sylvain... but you know I withdrew one of those after it was determined to be one of the hardest logic-solvable puzzles ever, which was really a result of a mistake I made. Are you counting that one? I don't know the puzzle number off-hand, but the title was "Light."

It was a great theme for me in terms of the type of puzzle I enjoy making. though I'm surprised we did not see more by Gator. Teresa had some great ones and so did the other entrants.

I can guarantee I won't have 20 55x25 puzzles for this week's WCP. =)

I probably would have had some more, but life got busy. This contest was really enjoyable with all of the entries.

Robyn: we did count # 6670 and all it's valuable discussion.

WCP # 43 is close

result and new to to follow soon

ok WCP#44 either UP, DOWN or UP AND DOWN

special rule this week:

#1: free interpretation of the title so lets have fun

#2: grid size must be 25 long by 55 high

#3: no colour restriction

#4: no white lign or no white colum at least one pixel must be in every lign or colum

have fun good luck surprise us

Why is WCP #44 set to last for 3 weeks instead of 2 weeks? Also, in the Honors section, the honorable mention is wrong. I think the wrong puzzle number was entered and it was supposed to be #6725.

Dear Robyn:
The WC #44 is three weeks because the honorable PRESIDENT of the judges is Canadian and it's Thanksgiving weekend for them, so he went on vacation. All the other judges (me) aren't enough to vote.
Thanks for noticing the error on the honor section, it's fixed.

Aha! Well, happy Thanksgiving, Sylvain!

One other error... please delete my puzzle #6311 from 2nd place in WC #38, and move MMD's puzzle to 2nd place. There will be no 3rd place that week. Thanks.

Jota, while we are on the subject of correcting mistakes, you might want to take a look at the posted results for week #37. Thanks. :-)

Well thanks Robyn I add a wonderful week-end up in the mountain. We did a 5 km up trek from the button of the moutain up to the submit ( took 4 hour with the kids) a total of 875 m high ( soory you can tranlate from metric if you want I'm to tired to do so...lol)

The weather was nearly perfect even got a couple of snowflake late sunday ( just so the kid can say the saw they first snow of the season) And the colour in the tree were totally awsome to look at from the top.

Jota and I are ready to go back into our judging position next week, in the mean time I'm looking for more great puzzle to wcp#44 theme since we all got one week to go

thank you all for the wishes

Adam: don't be cute, you won 2nd place, so no deleting.
Teresa: Thanks.
Love you all

My title isn't even right. The puzzle shouldn't qualify.

Jota: I wasn't being cute, and I wasn't joking.

WCP 44 is now closed

WCP#45 new theme


the theme of WCP#45 is: TIME

back to standard rule
theme open to any valid interpretation

good luck to all entrant

WCP 45 is closed

WCP46

New theme


classic rules this time again

THEME: The End


open to all interpretation except the end of WCP bi-montly contest :-)

WCP#46 is closed winner to be annonce soon


NEW THEME for #47 WCP: Family Tradition

With thanksgiving in two week and Christmas coming fast behind lets show family tradition around holydays like those or simply a family tradition of other sort.

good luck to ll

WCP #47 is now closed


result and theme of week #48 will follow soon

new theme

WCP#48 NUMBERS

anything related to numbers in any form you may think of will be accept so be original

wcp#49 is now closed

WCP #49 new theme

Winter Wonderland

do I really have to explain this one???

winter, Christmas, outdoor fun, shoveling at 4 am before going to work.... all the thing that goes so well with the winter season

ok I kinda forget it was tonight sorry to all

so you guess it wcp49 is closed

the winner are now anonce and here is the new theme for the next two weeks

WCP#50: lullaby, fairy tales and other bedside stories

have fun see you in two week

WCP 50 is now closed

result and new them will follow shortly

NEW THEME

wcp51: from 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31 memories of a decade

max size will be 30X30 ( or a 60 total when add) must used all lign and colum, no colour restriction


have fun remembering those past 10 years

What does "must used all lign and colum" mean? I want to start making WCP puzzles. Sorry Sylvain, but I can't understand what you mean.

At least one non-white pixel per each line or column.

He is French. Cut him some slack. He means you can't have any rows (lines, "lign") or columns ("colum") that are not filled in with at least one non-white pixel.

I must have been typing this at the same time Jota posted her comment.

Well, French Canadian ...

<smile>

Yes I know Sylvain is French.

And thanks for the clarification Jota :D

not french but french cabadian or even better Québécois lol

but yes some people in north america do speak french as a regular language....lol

And to me, that means French! :-)

By the way, Frannie, you are welcome anyway.

Adam please stop calling me "Frannie." I have asked you many times politely. Why do I receive no respect?

Just giving back what is given out. I am done for now.

I'm sorry Adam. I don't see where I have disrespected you before. I may not agree with you, but that's not disrespect.

DWAI.

I'm sorry I don't know what that means.

DWAI = don't worry about it

not too many puzzle enter in this week challenge and only a few day remaining, come on guys don't say to me that the last 10 years were uneventful to the point you can't remember anything worth doing a puzzle on

The last ten years were too eventful. Hard to squeeze it all down into one puzzle

Corey, you can make a puzzle for each event!

WCP 51 is now closed

I know its a little early but considering that we got only 4 puzzle in 2 week I don't think that 20 more minute will do any diffrence.


WCP 52 theme: In the spirit of the game

with the winter olympic coming to Vancouver (Hey Oh! Canada Go!) we decide to celebrate the olympic.

Anything the can be link to the olympic from the Greek origin of the game to the modern day game relunch by Pierre de Coubertin both summer and winter game are available to you.

Let celebrate the spirit of the olympic, the high caliber performance of those athelete, the clean and loyal competition between all country without descrimination of race or religion. Sport can unite big part of the world and the Olympic are a testament to that. So let honor those athelete those game and Hey Oh! Canada Go! ( did I mention that the gold in hockey is coming back home this year...lol)

Ugo can enter any number of his puzzles for this week's theme.

no new puzzle ( or variation of existing puzzle )only if Ugo want to redo some of is sport picto he can do it in the style of current or past olympic game since the picto change from game to game

WCP 52 is now closed



NEW THEME WCP 53: Circus, Carnaval and Amusement park


special rule: must use all color ( 5 including B&W)

ATTENTION: We are looking for intellignet use of the color and not coloring puzzle. I don't really need to see a blue man with a red dog on a green stage if you catch what I mean here

Many people around in here prefer B&W for this reason. What we are looking for is logic use of color to get great final result both in term of puzzle solving and final image.

This week theme is tailor made for something like that since circus, carnaval and amusemnent park are so rich in color, use in a way to catch the eye of the people attending the show or passing trought.

Hope you'll have fun and we can't wait to see those puzzle coming

Still a week to enter in this theme competition. Don't give up we want new puzzle pass the word to other user cause we are in very low participation ratio for a long time now. Start to wonder if its worth continuing again.....

it's worth it!

My life and my job consist of mostly crisis control and the rewards are few and far between. The weekly contest gives me something to look forward to, even if I hardly ever win anymore. I don't mind losing to creative. original artwork, and the competition brings out the best in people. For those who have not entered before, it is so much fun, whether you win or not. It's my R&R. I wish we had it EVERY week! :-)

Yeah, Sylvain, make it go back to weekly. :-)

No chance of it going back to a weekly basic rigth now and that for two reason

First I don't have the time that it would require of me to look at every puzzle each week and I'm working on sunday now so the week of the judging I can't even eat before I do it cause I'm arriving at home only couple of minute before 7 pm. The load of responsability that it ask me is just to big rigth now for me to put it back on a weekly basic like it use to be.

Second we only get about 5 to six puzzle each theme and that for 14 days competition. If I cut that to 7 days as before I will get what 3 or 4 puzzle and two of them will be by Kai or Teresa so I won't be able to have a complete podium.

If the participation raise up and I can manage to have more time ( or more help since its only Jota and me rigth now) I would consider bringning it back to one theme a week but not rigth now

Boss, we could do the judging any other day or time, I'm flexible, since you're working Sundays. But no weekly please.

WCP 53 is now closed

result and theme for WCP 54 coming later

New theme: WCP54: Chinese shadow and other silhouette

rule to follow soon

Special rules:

Of course only black and white will be acceptable, since it's a shadow or other featureless interior silhouette.
Max. grid 30x30

WCP # 54 is now over


result and the new WCP 55 theme to follow soon

WCP #55 Oscar winnig movie

With the academy award being tonight I decide to honor the winning film of this year and the past. So we are looking for puzzle representing winning film.

The movie don't have to have wont film of the years. If the movie was rewarded with an Oscar may it be a technical price or one for script editing or music it ok to. So many people work on a movie that every Oscar as to be see as an absolute performance in whatever the person do for that movie.

To help you I'll give you the official wiki list of Oscar winner here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films

PLus I'll ask you to enter to prize won by the film in the description.

Thank you and lets celebrate this great form of art that as make Hollywood the dream seller that it is now

WCP #55 is now closed

WCP56 theme

Awful movie

We had such a great result with last week theme that I decide to continue in the same idea, but this time as suggest by Bluepaint a couple of week ago lets focus on awful movie.

You know the type of movie that are praticly toture to go througt. Or the kind of movie so bad they became cult hit on the internet. We want to see wich really bad film make the top of your list.

For any help finding a film the is real bad you can check the razzie winner from this list but they're so many other film being worth the title of worst movie ever that I doudt you really need it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst


Before letting you go on with your creation process I like to remind you all that taste are a personal choice and ask you to take no offence if your favorite film of all time is someone else worst film. I know how passionate some people are about certain film and I don't want to start a war here.

WCP 56 is now closed


result and theme of wcp57 coming soon

WCP57: Be afraid, Be so very afraid


the theme this week is phobia. It can be something you are afraid of or any other phobia you know about that can make great puzzle. To help here the link to a website compiling all know phobia

http://phobialist.com/

have fun with what scare the **** out of other people...lol

wcp 87 is now closed

result and new theme to follow

WCP58: From the Mad Doctor Lair


Ok here the chance to play mad scienticfic. Have fun slicing and Dicing DNA from any living creature and creating a new one doing so.

We want the name to the new creature and from what it came from, be whild, be crazy, be mad, have fun

wcp 58 is now closed


winner and new theme to follow

WCP 59 Smaller in real life

Usually we are making smaller representation of bigger object here on this website.

So this week theme is the opposite. We are looking for small object ( or living creature, or anything else whatever that may be) that are reprente bigger when put on a 40X40 grid

good luck to all

must it be put on a 40x40 exactly?

no you can go smaller but the objet still need to be represented bigger than it is really

WCP59 limit is push to sunday may 30th

I was not available last night and got no time rigth now to catch on to the puzzle I miss during the week-end.

7pm eastern time next sunday

hmmm thanks for your efficiency, i will withdrawl my puzzle, soon!

Withdrawl ???

yes Jota, i'm withdrawing my entry... y'all don't live by the rules. You insisted that I keep the rules. Therefore i don't wanna play anymore.

what's going on, Tom??????????????????
Keep cool!

Kai ...hot, nor cold has anything to do with one's belief system; however, thanks for your concern.

I don't get it Tom, would you please explain ?

Jota: i don't understand why y'all would extent the time period and allow others to compete, when you & Sylvain could have done the judging yesterday, today or tomorrow and let us know. I don't mean to be offending to you or Sylvain but all competitions have a start and finish period and thats that. I'm beginning to feel sorry i said anything now. I JUST want to solve & create puzzles. I'll let it go if you will also. I'm a senior citizen and rather not have this aggravation. huggggsssss
P.s. this still is the best puzzle site (of any kind) on the internet.

Sylvain, as a senior citizen and fellow competitor, I would like to say I am not bothered at all by your need to be flexible. I know you are short a judge. I know that you created this contest to make this site more fun for us. I know that it takes a lot of time to do this in addition to your real work. I know that you are a parent of foster/adopted children. As a fellow foster/adoptive parent, I know that some of these children have issues that require more of our time and energy than we can afford to give sometimes. I am glad that you have your priorities straight and do not make this contest your number one responsibility. It's just a pastime.

I have had great fun with this contest, and it inspires me to improve my creative skills, and I thank you for that. Sylvain, you are gifted with kindness, tact, and wit, and you have been most generous with your time in running this contest. I know I am not alone in sharing my appreciation for you and Jota keeping the contest going with your interesting themes and clever interview questions.

I simply extent the time period because I was not at home during the week end and my free time during the week is minimal.

We have extend the time period in the past for diffrend reason ( limit on a holiday, not enought puzzle enter, judge not available etc) it was never an issue since I don't really think that nobody really take the competion brought by the point system too seriously. Its there only as a fun plus, but the real design behind the WCP was to help people create medium difficulty puzzle in a medium grid size so the maximun of people could enjoy them.

Tom if you feel the time extend was not fair to you and you decide to withdraw your puzzle I'm sorry for you but I don't really care I won't consider your puzzle and that a closed subject. I didn't think that extending for a week since I was not able to get online on sunday would make such a buzz.

A final note as Teresa mention it we are a judge short. I pass the invitation a while ago with no result so I try it again here. If any of you wanna be part of the judging team it will only take about 15-25 min of your time a sunday out of two. Let me know if you're interested

Sylvain, as much as I love being a winner, I really don't need any more points. I would be happy to be a judge, if the judging time did not conflict with my obligation to work at my kids' house until 8 pm. Arizona time is same as California time in the summer and Colorado time in the winter. That might be too late for you. If you want to do the judging a little later on Sundays, I can do it!

Thanks teresa but it seem like you'll have to continue adding point since its a litle bit late for us eastcoaster...lol

Sylvain: I tried to drop this subject to no avail. Please accept my appology and allow me to leave my puzzle in the competition. Also.... what hour is needed on those sundays? I might be interested after this up-coming decision.

thanks to Sylvain, Teresa and Tom for this serious and satisfying discussion!

Tom is at 7pm eastern time on sunday, the way we work is by "chatting" using g-talk on the gmail page. Only have to have an gmail adress and that it.

It usually take about max 30 min of our time when there is many puzzle enter but most of the time its a 10-15 min think.

When we do not agree fully from the start we twnd to have a point system so each judge choose his 4 pick from 1 to 4 place winner get 5 second 3 3rd 2 fourth 1 and we add on all the score to determine wich puzzle get the top 3 place. But most of the time only telling each other wich you like the most and why make for the easy decission from the majority of the judge.

Sylain: 7pm is not a problem for me, i live in N.C.... i don't have g-talk, but guess i can get it...i only have yahoo messenger right now.
Soooooooooo please think of me as a contender for judging these wonderful puzzle/pictures.

no not a contender you are now a judge starting this sunday

So first I'm withdrawing your puzzle from this week challenge

second go create an account on gmail, on the left of the gmail page you'll see the g-talk interface, you can add me I'm under

theqwerty789@gmail.com

waiting to have news from you

We could also leave his entry for # 59 and start Tom as a judge on # 60 ?

i would prefer to start as Jota suggested, so please allow my entry for this week stand. i will get the gmail account and contact you... also, i'll be visiting my mom in s.c. this week, but will be home next sunday, thanks gang

consider that a done thing Tom is now a judge starting WCP60

Thank you Tom for acepting the invitation

your very welcome... i did get the g-mail and sent you a msg already... let me know if you rec'd it? I'm used to yahoo messenger.

oh man! :) ...i had a puzzle that i was working on for the contest, but ran out of time and let it sit. i worked on it as a puzzle to submit just for fun, but didn't quite get it solvable. i don't frequent the forums very often and didn't know that the contest had been extended until just now...with 35 minutes to the deadline...and probably two hours worth of work left to do on it. oh well. cookie crumbles...

WCP59 is now closed


Result and new them to follow soon

WCP60

Wow 60 them alreaydy I can believe we reach this far. Amazing thing is we are still going strong with about 15 puzzles post each theme. I thank you all for that.

I'm glad to anonce that a new 3rd judge as join the team. Tom will now serve as 3rd judge with myself and Jota. Since Naneki left the judging position we had the chance of doing it with Deana for a while but for the past couple of month we been running the thing only with Jota and I so we were really happy to accept Tom in the team when he propose himself for the job


NEW THEME

now for the serious part here the new theme: This is weird !!!

So this is an open theme anything that you found weird is ok for the contest. Just tell us what you find weird about this thing in particuliar and lets all have fun

WCP60 is closed


WCP61 NEW THEME

FIFA World Cup


its the 19th world cup in South Africa rigth now, 32 country competing a the biggest football competition of the world ( soccer for my US friends..lol) We can't pass an event that big.

Everything that goes with this world cup or pass one or the sport of Soccer in general will be consider.

Have fun, plus go outside kick some ball its fun

Wear cups, boys, I'm gonna go outside and kick some balls :D
(sry, couldn't resist)

:-D

LOL

Just bit my tongue!

ok with the ball joke here I'm talking about the SOCCER BALL...lol

Wow I don't do that often but I really feel like its worth it this time. The puzzle enter so far in the Wordl Cup theme are amazing, I really think its going to be hard on us 3 judge come next sunday.

I'm glad that this theme seem to inspire you all to create truly awsome piece, so to everyone who had already sumit something: thank you. And for all the other get inspire by such a great event and the other puzzle already enter and create your own.

Let see next sunday who is going to win this world cup tournement, look like its going to end in a shootout at the end.

i got my gun loaded :D

a soccer shootout my funny friend ( penalty shot if you prefer) Since theire is no draw pass the first round after a 20 min "3rd half" we go into shootout to get a winner

WCP # 61 is now closed.

WCP # 62 theme: Human race (standard rules apply).

no martian's allowed

haha

wcp 62 is now closed

New theme:


WCP63: Famous city #1: Las Vegas


standard rules


have fun

blow on them dice y'all

wcp 63 is now close


new theme and result to follow soon

New theme


WCP64: Landmark Event #1 : World War II

Anything that can be associated with WWII is ok in this.

Size restriction: as a additionnal challenge all grid must be 30X30 no all whithe line or colum ( at least one pixel must be use by line or colum)

No other restriction

Have fun

see you in two week

lol.... it's now war time gang .... load up

Does this new restriction pertain only to this challenge or will this remain in effect from here on out?

Only this challenge.

Thanks Jota :)

Teresa dear friend you haven't post in puzzle yet in WCP64 is there something we did that make you boycot us or are you just in vacation ???

No, I'm not boycotting the contest. I'm tired lately from having to work way more hours than usual. And I'm just not inspired yet, or maybe I'm just not motivated. I am certainly enjoying the creativity shown by other puzzle makers though. I always enjoy the unique ideas you come up with for themes. Keep 'em coming!

We love you Teresa, you do you know that, right?

Thank you, Jota. :-)

Jan if you find the time can you change the name of the judge on the honnor page. Nancy is no longer in here (that sad) Tom O'Connel (sensei69) is now the third judge with myself and Jota.

Thank you

WCP # 64 is now closed.

dang..... green haters :D

special note from Niagara falls, hello everyone hope you enjoy theme even if if was not something as ligth headed as usual. Great job everybody on those puzzle. Big thank for Jota and Tom for doing the judging part without me this week.

As for the new theme: famous city #2: new york

it must have at least one pixel of red, white and blue.
rest of it is standard rule.

Good luck to all

Continue to have fun!!!

Sylvain, this is a terrific theme. My mind is reeling with all the possibilities. I don't have as much time lately as I would like to create a really good puzzle for the WCP. But I see that there are already 10 entries, and we're only half way to the deadline. I'm happy to see so much creativity and good competition. I'm sure you will find some worthy winners among them. I will enjoy solving all of them, when I have a chance. The WCP continues to be a highlight of my experience here on WEBPBN. :-)

WCP65 is now closed

NEW THEME

WCP 66: Jan trought my eye

ok let explain here. Since we reach puzzle number 10 000 ( and even more) in the past week, I tought it will be cool to take a look back at the beginning.

Since it all start with Jan idea and creation here what we propose you this week. Go in the find puzzles page type Jan wolter and check all the amazing puzzle Jan did in here, choose one and do YOUR version of this puzzle.

In this area of re-make and remix its time we do an "hommage" for the man who make this all possible in the first place.

Standard rules apply but please put the number of the original Jan puzzle in the description

Hope you'll have fun re-creating Jan work and lets go for puzzle 20 000 in the near futur.

Sylvain and the wcp team

bravo, Sylvain

I like this theme. I have done at least two versions of Jan's puzzles, albeit unwittingly. Now to try to see through his eyes through my eyes wittingly ... er, yea.

For those who haven't had a chance to work the "Find Puzzles" page yet, you search on a person's user ID rather than their name.

So for Jan Wolter (Jan) you would enter Jan in the "Author ID:" and for me you'd enter infrapinklizzard rather than Joe.


And I assume it has to be a new puzzle? For example my "#8142: Easter" vs Jan's "#391: A Long Face on Easter" would be cheating? (Or my "#8099: Hang the Expense" vs "#531: Hitched", or ...) ^_^

Ooh, I love this theme. It may take me a few days to come up with one, but it's a great challenge.

i think Jan should help us judge this one :)

Just as easy a way to find Jan's puzzles - go to the users tab to the left, search Jan's name, click on the blue number of puzzles.

WCP # 66 Is now closed. Results will follow later tonight.

New theme: landmark event #2 : Woodstock, classic rules apply

there was nothing classic about woodstock lmbo

woodstock WAS a classic
haha

Maybe we should ask Jan if he can add brown, for the mud. :P

wcp 67 is closed

new theme and result to follow

WCP68:

Heroes OR Vilains


we are looking for heroes or vilains from any type of medium, it can be real life, book, video game, film, tv, comics it doesn't matter

Plus let add a little fun in here:
Vilains must have at least one pixel of RED ( but can have any other color too)

Heroes must have at least one pixel of BLUE ( but can have any other color too)

how about fantasies, sylvain?

no problem anything you can think about only thing if its a less well knonw caracter please included a brief history in the first comment

wcp 68 is now closed

New Theme


WCP69: Famous City #3 : London (UK)

standard rules apply

WCP 69 is now closed

New topic

following in wcp69 and the winning puzzle we at the wcp decide to go with a follow up theme

WCP#70: The British Invasion (musically speaking)

it chage music forever let see what it will do to the wcp...

beatle mania i predict

WCP 70 is closed

New theme


WCP71: Toons


We are looking for toon of all sort, from the classic of both Hanna-Barbara or Disney to the new stuff playing rigth now on the cartoon network to the anime coming from Japan or the more adult stuff from the adult swim or the stuff from the major network like family guy, american dad, south park and the like. If a cartoon of it exist somewhere its on

let be crazy like a toon and have somme fun

Come on people still a few day left to show us your favorite toon. Its not like they are choices missing here!!!

I WANT DONALD DUCK

keep your personal fetishes to yourself
haha
just kidding sensei

WCP 71 is now closed

WCP72: Bob Globe-trotting adventure #1 : Canada

ok here what its going to be: Bob just win the lottery and decide to go on a globe trotting adventure around the globe. So each theme in that categorie going to be a countrey Bob's visiting. Since he is going to be in the country for two week he can go all over the place (no money issue remember...lol)

The only stipulation is that the puzzle should represented a picture Bob as taken during his time in the country. You get to decide the type of picture he made or the coloration he decide to use.

Ok so since Bob live in Montreal he decide to first visit his own country so from ocean to ocean let visit Canada

by the way I heard he is a great photograph so make him proud....lol

I can't wait to see where Bob will go in my beautiful country - there are so many choices!

This should be interesting. Great idea, Sylvain. :-)

thank you T

Q, you have continually asked for more and more WC entries over the years, and here is Kadou, giving you a ton in the first couple of days alone. Pretty nice, huh?

A ton!! I didn't know puzzles weight some much! Let me know if it's too heavy a load. :)

***
Is there a minimum number of raters on a puzzle to make it elegIble for a challenge? I'm simply asking because in the case a puzzle is available late in the week and very few (or none) rate it. What happens?

no the limit is really up to 6h55 pm on the last sunday....please submit a litte before lol

yeah Kadou, give us a couple of hours to solve and think about the puzzle

For all of you that ARE NOT Kadou come on guys, Canada's is a big country with penty for Bob to see so you can easilly find something to puzzle about....

PS: Kadou that doesn't mean you must stop we all love your puzzle and it can help inspire other

Don't expect that many puzzles from me every week... I have more free time this week than usual.

What would you do if you only had 1 or 2 entries in a challenge?

then no matter what kind of puzzle quality you submitted you would place as long as you followed that weeks specific guidelines
haha

Would you only give a 1st prize if only 1 person submitted puzzles for a challenge?!?

no they would probably extend the contest another week or change themes
just my guess

We had to extendf in the past for a scecific theme during x-mas season if I remember well.As for other mention anormaly it never happen yet so I'll cross that bridge if I ended in front of it...

they was pass theme when participation was lower or even quality of puzzle below norm but we choose the 3 best of what we got.

Could it be that the challenge page does not get enough visibility to attract more participants?

word of the contest has been spread in many puzzles and forums
most people just dont care to enter

why am I able to edit Carol's post??

Because the "Honors" button that's over there <--- *all the time isn't enough?

Sorry, I'm feeling feisty.

feisty is good, sometimes

The button says "Honors" which means distinctions, awards.
When I saw that it didn't make me think of a contest/challenge.

The page title is "Weekly Challenge". Weekly means once a week, every week. I was surprised when I realised the challenges last 2 weeks! It would more appropriate to call it: "Biweekly Challenge".

at first it was once a week but time when missing from my schedule and we had to push think to 2 week spend. Plus it give more time for participant to think about a good idea and enter a puzzle

WCP 72 is now closed thank you all

New theme

WCP73: Globe-trotting adventure 2: Bob & Kate Honeymoon in Italy

So Bob and his new wife Kate are heading to Italy. Both are fan of the roman empire and both are very romantic lover. We can't wait to see all the great picture they will take in Italy while celebrating they love and playing tourist....

WCP 73 is now closed

WCP74

Bob & Kate Globe-Trotting adventure #3: India


B&K are both great fan of Bollywwod movie and they want to visit India siince seeing Slumdog Millionaire. So for the next three week B&K are going in India, can't wait to see what they going to see

Sorry, perhaps an out of place question, but...where is the Christmas theme since this two weeks (actually, looks like three) covers Dec. 25?

I mean, Bob could visit the North Pole and get ready for Christmas, and go to India in the new year. =D

We'll do a three weeks challenge this time not to interfere with the holidays.

Okie, but no holiday theme? That's the point, I get the three weeks. =)

Cyclone, if you'd like to solve some Christmas and holiday puzzles, check out the entries for WC#16 and WC#17, and all the non-entry puzzles during December 2008. Start with puzzle #4192 and end with #4498, and find all the titles in between. That was a great year for Christmas puzzles. Enjoy. :-)

Cyclone I choose not to included a Christmas thme this year cause it been done in the past. The wcp is running on is third years and we pretty much did all the classic hollyday theme like x-mas, halloween, St-valentine etc

The idea behind the WCP is to give puzzle creator a basic theme to go on when creating. I'm pretty sure no one need any advise or idea on what to do for a X-mas puzzle.

Plus check out topic 257 (the wcp catalog) to check out all past entry for each past theme.

I thought that might have been the reason, Sylvain, I just wondered if a trip to the North Pole had been an oversight in the journeys. =) I was looking forward to a Christmas puzzle theme contest, and am sure some had puzzles ready to go for the possibility of the theme recurring in B&K's travels. Maybe an Indian Christmas tagline will come up for some of these puzzles, too!

Teresa, I actually am already aware not only of WC#16-17, but also of #49 (Winter Wonderland). Sadly I will probably spend more time and interest on those three sets instead of the trip to India in these next couple of weeks; maybe I'll get around to the India puzzles eventually after the holidays. Obviously I was away during those contests (first came in 2006 but lost touch with the site after a few months; I actually commented on puzzle #14); I'm sure anyone here during those contests has already solved the puzzles. =)

I have two more puzzles to try for WC#2, then I'll skip ahead to #16-17. I've printed some of those today, it's a very snowy day here and I certainly am not going anywhere so it'll keep me busy while looking at radar shots to try to get my family home.

Cyclone

Just a litle reminder here its been nearly a week since anoncing the new theme and only one official inscription so far. I know its x-mas season and that we give 3 week to enter a puzzle but India is a big country rich in tradition and with many awsome thing to see.

I know you won't disapointed us three judges

Merry Christmas to all

Can you please tell me what qualifies as an official entry?
....
Happy Holidays!

official entrie are one not made by judges or not tile wit no wcp in the title

its now 2 entry (I miss Kai last entry)

Or titled WCP # 74 for the India challenge.
Happy Holidays to all of the readers.

To qualify, the puzzle also has to meet certain criteria, such as "no more than 80 rows and columns. So the puzzle could be 40x40, 45x35, or 60x20" - the rules are explained in the Honors tab at the left.

Thanks, but that's not what I want to know.
What I really want to know is: How much does a puzzle need to be compliant with the theme to qualify? Or does every puzzle properly named and sized qualifiy?

we are very open minded and have a great sense of hunour if its twiated but kinda logical ( like your credit card puzzle) its in. In past we had user play on word with the theme and always accept the puzzle. It have to have a certain way of fitting in the theme even if this way is a little far from the obvious

When is the next WCP I wonder? I always forget how to come here and find out info...

Honors tab on the left Wesley.

The current theme ended on sunday jan 2

nest theme start that very night and ended on jan 16

as far as the new theme....well you'll see on jan 2
lol

Are you sticking with Bob and Kate traveling the world, or are we doing something else? =D

cyclone... WE haven't talked about it as yet...be patient

like leak a litle spoiler here

B&K going to visit another country and its in Asia

tsk tsk, sylvain

Hey, I suspected more travelling - I just wanted to know if the theme was continuing. Besides, they oughta visit Aussie-land sometime, no?

*ponders whether they would go to Antarctica and we have penguin puzzles*

Not for this week but both Australia and Antartica are intersting idea... I'll talk of them with Bob & Kate.....lol

Okie...

I know this is extremely old, but just took on puzzle #3356 again, which was the runner-up in WC#1. I question how a puzzle that has multiple solutions and requires guessing be considered the second best puzzle in the contest when others are logically solvable and deserve it more. It's a shame as it's a nice image, but a little more work on her arm and a moving of one of her eyes would have made it solvable without guessing - and a worthy candidate to even win.

Check the honors tab/list, Cyclone. I don't see where you find it as the runner up. The list I see has 1) 3349, 2) 3380 and 3) 3352. If 3356 is unsolvable (I admit to not having tried) it wouldn't be considered.

In topic 257 Sylvain is merely listing the entries.

cyclone.... are you some kind of puzzle police?

WCP 74 is now closed

Sylvain.... g-mail won't let me on :(
my choices are...11492....11436....11557

oopps see it to late

sorry bro!!!!

i tried since 10 to 7 ...it won't allow me on...we need to find another way to communicate

WCP #75 Bob & Kate Globe Trotting adventure #4: Thailand

So Bob and Kate leave India for Thailand, since they are both martial art lover they are thrill to see the homeland of Mu Thai. Plus since Kate love old building she can now go visit many amazing old temple. Let hope they find plenty of great thing to see and enjoy in Thailand

Tom if you're online go to the chat section I'll wait for you 10 min

Tom...no, sorry, I'm not a puzzle police. I just misread the puzzle number and saw an identical title ("WC#1 ENTRY") listed as runner-up. I was trying to figure out why an unsolvable puzzle was runner-up but I misread the puzzle number. Please ignore the query, thanks for pointing it out Martin. =)

So now we're off to Thailand...I used to chat with someone who lives there. I'll be curious what we have coming from there. =)

WCP 75 is now closed

WCP#76

Send in the Clowns


Ok a little diffrent this time from the pasty few. B&K decide to rent a little villa on the Indian Ocean and take two week off from they world travelling adventure. So we at the WCP had to find something else to puzzle about in this hiatus. Not knowing what to do we follow the old circus rule and we decide to SEND IN THE CLOWN

So its all about clown, funny clown, fat clown, skinny clown, tall clown, short clown, sad clown, evil clown, animal clown, anything-else clown

Its CLOWN time do I need to say more...hope not. So I stop clowning around and let you to your futur clown

see you in two week

Just like that all those amazing clown puzzle and with the contest ending tomorrow nigth no Prince Clown of Crime????

no jack Nickelson, no Heath Ledger, no comic version

I need my jocker guys...... He is the ultimate evil clown after all

This is a suggestion btw not a command or a sure shot at the top 3 neither

And what about nemo?

both our demand been answer....

LOL, I'm glad to be of service. Even though I was not happy with my Heath Ledger; I kept on having to "fix" him to make him solvable, and the final image did not make me happy. :P

BTW, I totally enjoyed this particular competition; my mom, who is a clinical psychologist, is coulrophobic, and I didn't get nearly the exposure to clowns that I should have as a child, LOL. So now, I think of clowns as mostly evil (although recently we went to the Big Apple Circus, and I LOVED the clowns there), and I love exploring both the entertaining and dark sides of clowns.

WCP76 is now closed

WCP77 theme: better thing come in small doses


ok here what happening this week

B&K stop they trip around the world for this week since Kate sister just give birth so they back in Canada.

So while waiting for they next trip we challenge you to create small puzzle.

The theme itself is open to anything but the grid size going to be MAX 15X15

We challenge you to be creative and find a way to use every pixel worth something in those samll grid.

Ooh. I like. I don't make very many small puzzles.

can't wait for your 15x15 liz :)

The comedy entry has already been submitted. I can't really do a good 15x15 rebus either.

You can give it a try Bryan and anyone else who want to amaze us, or not!

I think you should mention in "Honors" the size Max of 15x15.

WCP #77 is now closed

New Theme: Bob & Kate Globe Trotting Adventure #5 : Love in the South Pacific


So having enjoy the new baby Bob and Kate decide to continue they trip around the world. Bob surprise Kate with a multi stop trip in the paradise island of the South Pacific.

Lets see how they both will enjoy this wonderfull trip in the island.

PS: the trip will end in New Zealand and Australia but that for another week so no puzzle in those two country yet...


The standard rules apply except for the obligation of having at least one red pixel in the final image.

i can see alot of red eyes this time

Well, with all this traveling and a baby to tote around, you can expect some red-eye flights and otherwise tired red eyes. =)

Clarification! The baby is not theirs and not on the trip. It's Kate's sisyer.

and it's not mine either

ROFL You are unique my friend!

:-D

WCP 78 is now closed

WCP#79 Bob and Kate Globe Trotting adventure #6: Down Under

Ok after touring the south pacific Bob and Kate decide to check out both New Zealand and Australia

Bob is a hudge LOTR fan and want to travel to midleearth and KAte used to be a fanatic of Survavior and the Outback season was her all time favorite so it all in the wild for her

lets have fun in NZ and AUS

WCP79 is now closed

WCP80 new theme

Bob & Kate Globe Trotting adventure #7: Safari into the Serengeti

Its nature call in this week challenge since our litle honeybird are going to central Africa into the Serengeti for an adventure into the wild

standard rule apply

thats means no orange or purple allowed

good one Tom but it only depend on Jan will to add those two color...lol

i only want grey

Yeah tell that to Rose.

So all submissions must have at least one pixel of yellow, yes? =D

WCP 80 now closed

WCP 81 new theme

Beware of the Butterfly effect


Ok so we take a break from Bob and Kate litle adventure. They decide to go back to Canada see they relatives and friends.

So what we are going to do this week is giving you a time machine. You may use it to withness or to interfere in some meaningfull event in history.

Anything you want to see or change is open for you.

Can be off personal use or humanity changing it doesnt matter.

As an exemple I would go back to be able to attent a Door concert. Or I would prevent the accident between all-star goalie Patrick Roy and coach Tremblay to happen so that Roy never leave the Montreal Canadien. See its not that big but that what I'll do.

You can go save Julius Ceasar wrong being murder, go kill Jack the ripper before he attack all tose girl. Mett John Lennon and told him to be more cautious with autograph seeker..... anything


have fun seeing or changing history

i choose.. to save John Lennon

I choose...to idle. Can't think of anything.

WCP81 is now closed

WCP#82 new theme

Conceptual art


Since they are back in Canada Bob and Kate restart doing thing they love. Kate enter herself in a conceptual art class. Her first homework was creating image with a bue square in it. The square can be full or hollow, as long as its sqaure, blue and it fit the final image its ok.


Now let help Kate with her class. 40X40 fix grid (her sheet)
no theme restriction, no color restriction but must have a perfect blue aquare in it

minimum size of the square is 4 pixel (2X2)
border of image square without real meaning ( 40X1 on all size) won't be acept either.

So create something with a blue square in it.


This week theme will go 3 week since its Easter in two. so its on until Sunday may 1rst 19 pm eastern time

and no square blue easter eggs .... well mabye a few, lol

Hmm. To think of a rebus with square in the phrase. "All Square" isn't good enough...

Is the goal for Kate to pass her class or create something nice? Because it can't be both!

She want to do the best she can in creating something that going to be appreciate by her teatcher

Who is this teacher? Anyone we know? :)

You're canadian, you might know Kadou!

fictional caracter guiys just like Bob and Kate.

just a fun way to go from theme to theme.....

In Canada, everyone knows each other, real or fictional! :)
I just wanted to know if the teacher is uncompromising about conceptual art. Is the theme "conceptual art" or "something with a blue square"?

its what our team says it is.... read

In response to Kadou; I know Wayne Gretzky quite well.
*must...hold...straight...face...*

pretty much something with blue square

and I know both Gretky and the prime minister. (both came to watch the hockey game in my igloo with two feather wearing indian and an esquimo...... lol)

To paraphrase a friend of mine who works in security:
"Well, bust my buttons! Why didn't you say that in the first place? That's a square of a different color!"

thing is french is my first language and sometime I'm not as clear as I thnik I am since I don't pratice my english writing as much as I should. Sorry about that

WCP 82 is closed

WCP #83 Follow the instructions


1- open theme
** You can do a puzzle on what ever you want.
2- fix grid size
** All puzzle must be 30X30 no variation
3- color restriction
** Must have 3 color including white ( 2 color + white empty spaces)
4- must use all the grid
** No blank lign or row are allowed at least one pixel by row and lign
5- Tell us why
** In comment #1 tell us why this puzzle should win this week WCP...

i can't wait for these forthcoming puzzles

Ahh this will be interesting.. oh there will be so many good ones, I'm sure it will be difficult to judge this one. Good call Sylvain :)

how about one from you A?

no promises... ;)

hmmmm okay... no promises .... you're sounding like a man now lol

WCP #83 is now closed


winner will be anonce shorthly


WCP #84 NEW THEME

Beautiful in so many way


We are looking for something that you find absolutly beautiful for some reason. It can be an objet, a person a landscape anything as long as it beautiful for you.

standard rule apply for this one

beauty is found in the eye of the beholder

WCP # 84 is now closed.

WCP # 85
Dreams of future world
Last Submission Date: Sunday, June 5 2011
20 x 20 or less. Only b/w.... no empty lines.

Yes!

Jota,,, me thinks you meant June 12th huggssss

yes ended on june 12th

Wow Jota you done a wonderfull work in replacing me this week.

Thanks my friend, now I don't have to worry about the futur of the wcp if time came to be missing in here...

Forget about it my friend, you're "irrepleasable"!

Excuse me, as I just cleared my throat LOL!

adam .... nuff said!

And Irreplaceable too!

WCP 85 is now closed




WCP 86 new theme

Live in technicolor

here the challenge. We want you to create a slice of live, a moment in everyday routine anything but here the twist...you can't use black.

only color and white pixel are allowed. So can you draw your everyday moment without black "line" hope so

Everything else is standard rule

(there is no limit of how many color you can use only no black)

how about black, Sylvain?

no black that the challenge TOM

Can we use 6 or 7 colors? :D

WCP # 86 Is now closed.

WCP # 87 Farm Animals of the future. The puzzle should be 30x30 or less and should not include any grass.

# 87 is now closed

WCP # 88 is now closed and from now on Challenges will be automatically closed at 6:45PM eastern w/o any announcement here. Also, the new Challenge will only be announced in the honors page and not here. Thanks.

:) Jota, mujer

Is this topic now going to be a discussion thread only? And can we suggest categories, like one I want to see: black and white only for something? =D

We'll I thought it was repetitive to post here and there.
It's not a bad idea to suggest themes for us judges to do.

What the heck? Why are all contests maxing the size to 25x25, 25x25, and 20x20 (last three weeks in particular)? Allow some larger puzzles again, could ya?

We hear you, we've just been downsizing ... ;-)

10-4 Bryan

10 by 4 ? That doesn't sound like it'll be a very exciting puzzle... too small! lol

6 colors?
Black, Green, Blue, Red, White, ???
Did I miss the joke?

No, actually you're the only one who got it!

someone finally got it :D

The rest of us just smirked and didn't say anything. ;)

32 by 27? Seriously? It's easier to count by fives when the number of rows and columns is divisible by 5!

I agree and I really don't enjoy non multiples of 5, but a challenge is a challenge :)

"basic rules"? it's been so long since we used those that i don't even remember them...time to scroll through some messages...

anyone else looking here...40x40, no color restrictions
...not much scrolling was required ;)

Technically (# of rows + # of columns <= 80)...

Also, comment #52 is an "agreed" on 20 minimum on the small side and 60 maximum on the long side, so that the puzzles don't get too long and skinny, but then that is tossed in Comment #63 in rules recap where 1x79 is specifically called out as acceptable. Actually I forgot until just now, the rules are listed at the top of the Honors tab...no super-skinny limits there....so nevermind.

You got it guys!

Tom I have a strange feeling the theme of wcp #94 is your idea am I wrong ?

Its nothing bad just that it rewally original and its something I thing you could sugest

guilty as charged Sylvain

(10.000) Ten feet or ten-thousand feet?

Ten-thousand ! Me and my "english".

"Any size" - You have opened the WCP up to 99x99?

well, if someone abuses this, then i guess we'll have to regulate again. I just wanted total freedom this time

funny fact: the 40X40 limit was first decide by your tryly because it was the maximun size that my old cumputer was able to run without lagging.


Everything as a reason you onlyhave to know the story behing it....

Anything larger than 25x25 makes my computer lag :(

I didn't know that Sylvain...sorry y'all, it won't happen again.

Is #96 meant to be IN the moon or ON the moon?

I've been researching so my puzzle is accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Moon

:D

Ending date for last WCP is listed as November 20th!

Try not to think of the contest parameters as hard-and-fast rules...guidelines really...interpretable. For instance, WCP #97 is listed as ending on December 4th, but insider information has it actually ending this Thursday.

I wish to use my veto for next theme ....

Can wcp # 98 be : All I want for Christmas is....

just like that just asking

works for me Sylvain

Hey Tom, look what number your last comment on here is :D

Tom's comment was E-V-I-L......lol


just another idea for WCP #100 in early 2012 we should ask people to submit theme idea than take like the 5 best in the opinion of the judge and do a poll in wich user can decide what will the theme of the 100th contest should be.

WCP#100: The User's choices: ____ ____ ____ ____

could be cool in my humble no longer judge opinion.

Hey, Sylvain, you are no longer a judge? But it's YOUR contest? I guess you are relieved now you don't have to judge this week especially, because there are sooooooo many entries. Aldege has been on a roll with this theme. :-D

I like the idea of asking users for theme ideas, but I think it would be wise to have only one theme per contest. We'll give you so many theme ideas you will never run out. :-)

My suggestion - the famous opening line for Snoopy:
"It was a dark and stormy night ..."

Teresa I had to step back a few month ago since my schedule don't allow me time enough to really enjoy it. It was becoming a burden to find time to check all puzzle and doing all the update. Good think both Maria and Tom accept to continue with it.

I'm keeping the door open as for a possible return in the futur if time allow it. In the mean time I still come in here a few time a week to check on my old friend and to see how the WCP goes without me.

Unfortunaly you have to let your baby out of the craddle one day or the other and that the situation rigth now. But I'm so proud of how its been going since my departure.

It was so smooth that many didn't even see the diffrence that how good my follow judge are. Once again a big thanks to both Tom and Maria for keeping it alive.

I like it, Martin. I have an idea for my puzzle already! :-)

My suggestions include:

Favorite Childhood Memory

What I Want to Be When I Grow Up

My Pet Peeve

Best Vacation Ever

What's Hiding in My Closet

My Favorite Board Game

TV Episodes From the Past

What About Bob (and Kate)? (Did they run out of money yet?)

How Does Your Garden Grow? (Mary, Mary, quite contrary)

WEBPBN is a place people come to relax and escape and have fun. So I think it's important to keep the themes upbeat and light. :-)

I think those are all great suggestions, Teresa.. I like the Favorite Childhood Memory idea.. or What I want to be when I grow up.. and what's hiding in my closet.. ;)

Hmm, let's see.. 100, that's a pretty significant number. We could do:

If I had an extra $100 in my pocket, what would I use it for?

What I think the world will be like in 100 years from now.

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times.

What I spent my last $100 on...

hmmmm there seems to be a delay tonight

OK Master Sylvain you are on ... We are doing the "All I want for Christmas " till the 26th and taking the challenge for the 100th WCP, but promise us you'll pick the winner for the challenge, it's your CONTEST and your idea, so as always we'll be your "servants" OK?

I agree with Jota, except the servant part :)

The word "servants" has such negative connotations, how about "minions"? ;)

BA-NA-NA!!!

:-D @ Kit and David.

Ok I'll judge #100 in 2012

Tom I like servant ..... maybe it's my God syndrome kicking in again ( must not forget medecine....)

lol

Jan I don't know if you can change it but Marie-Louise is record on 2 name Marz and Marz71 so in the WCP ranking one have 41 points the other have 30 pts so she should be at 71 pts total. Can you mix up both of her total so she get her rigth position

More than that Sylvain, you get to pick the theme for the 100th.

Well Ok I'll try to think of something truly awsome....

Or pick among the suggestions?

not sure got an Idea probably going to send you a mail soon
about it

To Jota and Tom: Did we agreed on this ????

Ok no problem I'll check the wcp #99 puzzle so I could choose a winner and in the same way the theme of WCP #100

It's really like two contests at the same time: best puzzle and best theme. Perhaps Sylvain could choose the best theme for #100, and Jota and Tom could judge the puzzles themselves for the three best puzzles according to the contest criteria already established: image + solving experience.

thats how jota & I thought it was, T
we judge the contest and Sylvain makes the choice of theme
.....and then Sylvain is asked to join us, only once, to judge the wcp#100 contest...then back to hibernation he goes :)

not hibernating, still eating ....way too much lol

Sylvain is much like the good china...worth a lot, very nice and pulled out of hiding for big events.

sounds like a theme David :)

lol

Ok the WCP just turn 100 this week. It took us a couple of years to achieve this and that awsome that it continue this long and this strong since day one. With many new members entering this website every weeks and playing in the wcp there are mostly past theme that new user would have appreciate participating in. So here a little poll that COULD serve as a future theme for the wcp

What old theme you wish to see re-use in the WCP ?


Maybe ( and that maybe since I no longer control the decision made in the wcp) it can bring back to live the most popular theme from past aera

Have fun

You don't have to start repeating themes yet! There's plenty that have not been done yet. Didn't we once have a suggestion request? I can't find it, but I know there were some cool ideas that I haven't seen used yet.

Here are a few:

What's hiding in your closet?

I'm Game! (favorite board game)

Favorite childhood memory

Home Sweet Home (something special about your town/city)

World Expo (in South Korea this summer)

Summer Olympics (in London this year)

NASA (The Rover will land on Mars this year)

Bob and Kate (lots of choices here - at home, having a baby, go shopping, out on the town, 2nd honeymoon - I miss those guys)

And I really like the travelling gnome idea

And of course my idea, 100 years ago... :-)

Teresa you are right but the idea came to me after seeing Tom King invitation to movie theme puzzle ( wich was wcp #1).

As far as the theme list you just mention they all are interesting.

I think that 101 is in the box right now plus Tom's traveling gnome will probably be 102 or something so that open thing up starting at 103.... will see

I wanna know what Teresa has hindin in her closet

Well, I already showed you my drawers, Tom. :-D

#9465, #9467, #9473, #9496, #9508, and #9547.

Never knew this forum existed. The instructions for many puzzles refer us here for rules. I guess I need to cross reference between puzzle #, date, and specific rules?

They are also listed on the Honors tab Tom.

Many of them refer to this forum for specific rules. I have read the red notes since November when I started creating them. Many of the older puzzles refer to this forum for specifics.

Look at post 632 on this thread.

I'm really wishing that the puzzle links on the Honors page had the mouse-over context menu so I could peek at solutions from one page.

I'll give someone a dollar to make a page that shows images of the winning solutions for all 100?

@ Tom it's a bit challenging but worth it, i hope!
@ David LOL

I think we may need an extra week or so, to give us time to solve all the previous 100 winning puzzles!

lmbo Kristen

As I did #1, it was pretty easy to see only house rules applied (and it was the Wild West, then). Post 632 refers to #88 going forward. I would hate to have someone disqualified because they missed, "Must include one red pixel" someplace in this thread..

@Tom

after I left the wcp (no more free time) Jota and Tom decide to cut the double posting and stop writing special rule directly in the description on the honor tap so for 1-88 just check my post with NEW THEME in it. It will give you any specific rule we decide to throw in. for 89-100 just check the red description directly in the honor tab. That way you should be able to track any specific criteria esk for a theme in particuliar

hope it will help

Weekly Challenge #102: What WE can do without webpbn ...
Is that a "we" as individuals or as a collective?

Also, will there be a third member judging future WCs?

Kadou...this was my idea and I was thinking WE as each we who cares to compete. The other does sound like fun.
WE: Jota & I are taking applications for a 3rd judge.

You have been two for a while now, and it seems difficult to recruit a third judge. So, I was thinking the third judge could be a "guest" judge. Someone who would be part of the judging panel for a given Challenge without "permanent" status. An active player who could prepare theme and rules for one WC where he/she is available and willing to judge.
What do you think?

I'll leave it up to Jota...but frankly,,, i don't like a part time judge...sorry Kadou

We do need a third or more permanent judges, it's a difficult process, believe it or not, sometimes we have to do it over the phone, or adapt the dates because one of us is not available, etc. it's becoming kind of tense when we have to travel or are busy.To fit a non-permanent person on this will make it even worse.
Then we have the times when we are in disagreement ... Tempers fly (JK) but the system we had for resolving conflicts among 3 does not apply among 2. Another difficult aspect is to keep the focus, hence the mistake David found in that perfect blue square puzzle.

I understand where you are coming from, so let's continue to try to find a solution.

my solution is a caraffe of merlot :)

I would like to apply for the job. I can be available every other Sunday.

As a judge, I would be committed to solving each contest entry, and to judge them based on:
* image (quality, detail, recognizable)
* solving experience (not too hard, not too easy)
* creativity (original idea, clever title, etc.)
* extra points for that "Aha!" experience we all love

And... I think I can come up with some pretty good themes. Anyone object to the ideas I posted above in #694?

Hurray I try to convince you to be judge awhile ago but you could not take it at the time. Great addition to the judging panel. Only bemol is the lost of a great competitor in the WCP.

I'm sure you 3 will do amazing thing and assure it will continue to grow and bring enjoyment to all user here in webpbn.com

thank you T (and as always to Maria and Tom too) for keeping this so alive and so great.

BTW Tom I love you 3 ( or 4 or 5) Q interview love the humor the personnality you bring to it.

Awesome! Thanks Teresa! I know it's not an easy task, so... good luck! :)

you got my vote T.... Jota will tell you what program to download to meet with us ....hugsssssssss

Congratulation, Judges!
You are truly not three of a kind, but three great personalities for a great future of the competition.

terrific idea!

Welcome Teresa!
We "meet" on Yahoo messenger at 7PM Eastern time.
Well see you on the 15th.
If you have any questions email me please.

T...you need to contact me via e-mail and tell me your screen name so i can accept you as a friend and then can start our conference room.

Awesome, Teresa. Thanks for doing this.

Some topic ideas I just had...
"What makes you...
laugh/cry/happy/sad/surprized/scared/angry/hungry/excited/upset/nervous/feel loved/aroused/any other emotion you can think of.

I like your idea, Kadou. Thanks.

What a WC theme!
"men...what would you like to see different in women....women: what would you like to see different in men?"

This is a woman's dream challenge... There are so many things that women would like changed about men, while men see women as near perfect.

Feels like a battle of the sexes! 3> vs }p
hehe! :)

I'll take the blame or credit for this one, Kadou :D

Well, this turned out to be a better contest than I thought it would be. Great entries! Very difficult to judge this time. In fact, if all three of us would have had our way, you all would have been winners!

Kind of waiting for the "Roamin' Gnome...?"

I like that one too. Let's see what the other judges think.

WCP has been discontinued.

Well, I've only been a judge for a short while, and now the contest is no more. You can't believe how tough that job is. Everyone argues, no one can agree on a winner. And there are complaints that the quality of the contest entries aren't that great. So we just decided that we're not going to do it anymore.

Sorry folks. That's the way it goes.

and Teresa outta be spanked :(

April Fools!

Having been a prior judge, I KNOW for a fact that your sentence "Everyone argues, no one can agree on a winner" is not true.

Good one, though. :-)

Maybe things were different when you were a judge, Adam. But the past several weeks have been very uncomfortable in the judges' court. One week someone just doesn't show. Another week, some one is out of town. It's like the commitment just isn't there. One judge has a hot temper, another judge has a potty mouth, and I have been referred to as a total b*tch.

Someone complained to Sylvain, and he said "Well, let's just call it quits, then. It's over!"

You may think it's a joke, but we sure aren't laughing. Bad timing I guess.

I'l be a good lad here and confirm ITS TRUE WCP is over






































































































































not....

sorry I forgot it was my duty to upload the winner and new theme tonight

Aw, heck. Adam was right. April Fools.

Tom and Jota are super fun to judge with. It really is hard though to pick only three winners, with so many imaginative puzzle creators.

Glückwünsche to Conzick, who now holds the top rank on the honors list!

:-)

Thank you. Vielen Dank, Teresa!

Make them all judges. Then, I'll have a chance. Kadou, Conzick, David, Brian, Kristen, et cetera... There should be 200 judges, and one contestant...



























Me

;-)

This contest requires landscape format. That means it has to be wider than it is high. For example, it can be 50 wide and 30 high, or 45 wide and 35 high, or 40 wide and 25 high. Just don't go crazy and make it 65 wide and 15 high, okay? 50x30 would be best. :-)

WC # 111...
Can a puzzle be in only red or only blue? Or does it have be in both red and blue? I imagine white is ok... :P

both Kadou ....15x15 only also...and yes the white base is a must

IE: Red White and Blue

Just a little word to say how a great job our 3 officiating judges are doing. Great job to all 3 of you. Love to way you continue to play with my "baby". I still trying to keep an eye on it from time to time and I love everything you do with it.

So once again Bravo and keep up the good job

your friend Sylvain

It's becoming harder and harder, we keep trying but it's very difficult my friend!

Sylvain, did you take a look at all the puzzles in the past contest? These creators are developing so much talent and they just keep getting better!

I enjoy it so far. Drop in sometime Sylvain and input your ideas.

Yes T I had the chance to peek at some new puzzle in the few last WCP and it must be so hard to choose from having so many hight caliber entry avery week.

But as hard as it is for you 3 its a great thing for the website and the community and that what the WCP was set up for at first, helping people find idea to let they imagination and talent do the rest and create new amazing puzzle for all others to enjoy. Way back then when I start in here thet was like 3-5 people posting all the puzzle, then I start trying to do some, at the same time Marz was starting to, then came Adam and the rest follow with the wcp giving them a start in puzzle creation. Guess my crazy idea work well.

We should not forgive to thank once again Jan who was cool enougth to let me a stage in wich I could set that thing up creating the honor tab and all the pages for the wcp.

Everyone did a fabulous job! It is a vibrant, fun community. Thanks, Tom

Just a thought: WCP # 127 Only three contestants, which is not strange since out of the last 100 puzzles on the site, Kurt has created 39, Al 23 and Tom King 4, apart from them, the only other "productive" creator is Norma with 13. That's a total of 79% of the puzzles.

The "puzzler" on NPR's Car Talk takes the summer off. Maybe our puzzle would also enjoy a little time away.

Good point.

According to the Honors button this is where the contest theme is supposed to be announced, but I am not seeing anything. Why the jump from post #750 in Jul 2012 to #751 in Mar 2013?

They stopped posting here; now the contest rules are at the Honors tab, listed by date, unless more information is needed.

WE could sure use another judge for the contest. This week we couldn't agree so we did, for the first time ever, make 2 winners. Please contact Jota or me for consideration.

Not interested in multi-color or large puzzles. Kristen (both of them), Kurt, Norma, Aldege, Joe, Dave, Brian, Travis, both Teresas would be outstanding. Forgetting one or two and apologize. One used to be a judge... Ask Kai or Kadou. They have the most honors and a bit of a chip. Might be the perfect way to mend fences and get them active here. Just my thoughts...Tom

Sorry again for posting early, still in Europe and crazy about the time. Last one ... for now!

when does the new weekly challange post and how do i enter

We have not done it in a while. Check the Honors tab on the left.

DO WE STILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS

I would love to see it back again!

If we wanted it back as a competition, we'd have to get some judges on board who were willing to put the time in every <challenge period> to solve the puzzles and judge them.

Another possibility is to just issue a prompt as a challenge each week. This could provide inspiration for puzzlemakers, but no ranking would be awarded.

I'm cool with the regular challenge topic, because I have a hard time coming up with ideas. Lately, I've just done riffs off of other people's puzzles (or titles).

I like the idea of having a prompt.

If you need a judge, I'm in.

What I liked most was to see the different interpretations of the same subject.

Okay! The new plan is to have a theme to inspire puzzle-making! No winners or losers, just an idea that might inspire creative puzzle making.

I'll add themes while this is getting re-started, but in the future I would like to find some other people to be in charge of picking the themes.

The first new theme is:

WebPBN will be 20 years old on March 24, 2024. Let's celebrate with 20x20 puzzles on the topic of WebPBN's 20th Birthday!

Please add #180 to the puzzle's name, so people can find them. Thanks!

This week's theme is:

Pick someone who has solved more than 1000 puzzles but rarely posted anything and illustrate their name.

Tip: You can click on Users and then click on Puzzles Solved to find users who have solved a lot of puzzles.

Thanks to Yonah Kondor for the idea!

Please add WCP #181 to the name of the puzzle, so people can find it.

Is there a size or color limitation?

Nope!

I should clarify that for "making puzzles about people who have rarely posted anything" I was thinking especially of people who haven't posted many (or any) comments. Though the puzzles that are already posted are fantastic too!!

Picking themes for the WCP is harder than I expected!

I was thinking that WCP #181 would be a way to welcome and celebrate people who might feel shy about commenting. I am worried that the entries could come out sounding like a person is not creating enough puzzles, and that is definitely not what I was aiming for! I hope people know that whether or not they ever create any puzzles, they are welcome here.

Oh ok, is there a way to see how many people are or aren't commenting?

That is a good question! One option would be to look at the list of which active users have been here the longest, and if someone is *not* listed there, that means they have never posted a puzzle or a comment. That list is here:
https://webpbn.com/read.cgi?type=T&id=1070

In Google Chrome, you can search for a particular person in the list by doing control-F.

This week's theme is Files. Maximum puzzle size 15x15.

And, of course, please put WCP #182 at the end of the puzzle's title. Thanks!

New theme: TV episodes from the past. Thanks to Teresa for the idea! Please put WCP #183 at the end of the title.

I should clarify that the theme was from a long-ago comment that Teresa made in this thread. I have not heard from her in a long time and am worried, and hope that she is okay.

I sent her a msg on FB, we'll see if I get a response.

New theme: Kristen's and David's weddings!

Puzzles must have 2:1 dimensions -- for example 15x30 or 10x5.

Please put WCP #184 in the title.

Aww! Not everyone is on Facebook, though. For those of you who can't see my photos, we got married last Saturday at the Birmingham Zoo, up by the elephants. The weather was perfect, and the elephants came right up to where the guests were (while Nick & I were off having pictures taken).

Oh yay! I love double weddings... Great idea.

Very sweet of you to do this topic! My fiancee would be jealous that Kristen got married by elephants, she loves them...especially Sri Lankan elephants because that's where her parents came from. If anybody needs context/inspiration for my wedding, we are getting married in October at the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte, NC. There's a current picture of us in my bio if you click my user name :)

New theme: Best Vacation spot! WCP #185

To keep people posted: Jota and JoDeen will be in charge of picking the themes. Thank you to both of them!

I propose a topic to be reflected or mirrored images. This is inspired by Puzzle # 6310, and my comment.

I see that the WCP is still happening, but where are the topics/themes posted?

On the left, Honors tab.

I'm sitting in for Jota and JoDeen for a couple of weeks. This week's theme is The Longest Day. It's inspired by the summer solstice and the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, but there is room for other interpretations.

This week's theme is "What's hiding in your closet?" The idea was posted by Teresa K, years ago. If you create a puzzle for the challenge, please add "WCP #194" to its title.

Also, I have a question: Teresa wrote in #694 that a theme could be "Bob and Kate (lots of choices here - at home, having a baby, go shopping, out on the town, 2nd honeymoon - I miss those guys)."

I am wondering whether Bob and Kate were regular webpbn characters at some point, or if they are from a TV show or book, or if Teresa invented them for the weekly challenge?

This week's theme is Fireworks! If you make a puzzle, please add WCP 195 to the title.

I'm back! Thanks Valerie for covering me.
New Theme:

You are too old when ... or How old is too old.

Welcome back! Glad you're here!

Unusual pets or pet tricks

Suggested by Tonia Berg in 2009- this time you get 2 weeks!

Best or worst about the olympic games this year! 2Weeks!

Norma's Birthday! Let's help her celebrate!

Happy Birthday Norma! <3

93, I think? Super cool!!!

Halloween!

ELECTIONS!

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