Competition, suggestion

This idea came to me in a dream.

The procedure:

Have someone make a simple outline of shapes/lines using an editor and post the file to The Next Level Downloads section.

To compete, a designer has to download the file and use it to make a finished level.

To enter they would upload their finished level to the Downloads section.

Players could then evaluate each submitted level and designers could compare development techniques.

The winner of the competition could create the next level outline.

I have made an example file located here

http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/download/310-competition-suggestionccl

So, I was playing CC1, and at scoundrel, I got stuck. I then noticed the exit's setup. A random force floor, a force floor pointed away, and a socket that will make exiting easy if you have all chips.

In MSCC, you can actually go backwards on force floors by holding the other way. Of course, you don't get anywhere, but...

BUT. If you go on the random force floor to the left and try and go left once you go down due to the AI, you actually win! I dunno if this works in Lynx, but it's a nice bust.

So I made a chip's challenge comic, but it was for my very own webcomic. Does this count?

(Hilarious fact, this was posted at my rank being at BLOBNET. Irony.)

Welcome to the Family Feud!

This is a quiz show!

You'll be asked some very simple questions, example; "name a common pet other than dog".

--Participation is simple and easy! To submit your answer; private message the quizmaster. You must try to match the most popular answer. In the example, you should name the pet which you also expect the other players to name.

--Other questions may have a different set of rules which will be explained at the question itself.

--Every round will have a new set of questions.

--Anyone on the forums is invited to participate -- the more players, the merrier, and the more diverse the answers will be.

--The Quizmaster is a secondary account of mobius, to keep personal messages separated. When participating in a quiz, send your PMs to the Quizmaster, not to mobius. * (click on the "quizmaster" name and under his profile click "send message")

--have fun!

We're starting right now! See below for the first game.

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1) How many planets are in our solar system?



2) Whose current avatar on the forum is the best?



3) pick a flavor of fudge OTHER than chocolate



4) What is the opposite of hard?



5) what do you call:



6) who is the best CC player?



7) how many people will participate in this round? (in this question you're not trying for the popular answer. Enter a number and the person closest to the actual number of participants wins a point, everybody else gets zero. If there is a tie all tied parties get a point.



remember to NOT post your answers in this topic but send your answers via Personal Message to the Quizmaster.



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FAQ:

--You may join or leave at any time, without notice. Just start by submitting an entry to the current challenge.

--As long as the challenge is still open, you can override your earlier entry by submitting another one.

--Only the newest challenge is open for submitting answers. After 2 to 6 days, depending on participation, the challenge ends. I will post results and statistics, then make a new challenge.

--When you are asked to name things, I will fix all spelling errors, capitalization, and punctuation. However, two things are not considered equal if one is a subclass of the other. "ice-cream" and "Ice Ceram" are considered equal, but "ice-cream" and "chocolate ice-cream" are different things.

--You may post in this topic with comments and questions on or about the questions but remember: Please refrain from discussing popular answers before the quiz ends so as not to influence other players.

--How Scoring Works: (unless stated otherwise in the quiz): You can score up to 1 point for each question, but will score a fractional amount of points less than 1 when you deviate from the top answer.

The exact score per question is (your answer's frequency) divided by the (top answer's frequency)(rounded to nearest thousandth).

Some questions which may be different, for example, you might be asked to pick a number from a given range, but the winner is whoever picks a number which nobody else chose. The scoring for questions like these will always be explained in the quiz thoroughly.

The scores for all questions are then added together, the result is your final score.

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administrator: could double-posting be allowed in this topic, since many posts are not necessary and may be few during a game.

*Anyone can be quizmaster! If you would like to host another round tell me (mobius) by PM and I will give you the password to the account.

rules for the quizmaster:

--anyone can make up questions but the quizmaster is in charge of posting the new round and results of said round.

--the quizmaster's password must be changed as soon as you take over as new quizmaster, to prevent previous quizmasters from cheating

--the quizmaster can and is encouraged to participate in his own round, however he must enter his own answers (in his regular account) before everyone else and is not allowed to change them (since he can see all answers)

--after his round is over, unless he continues to be quizmaster he will pass on the password to the next (and ONLY) the next quizmaster via PM.

--one is allowed to change the avatar of the quizmaster and time zone according to his preference.

figureA for quiz #1

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In about an hour the match for the chess world championship will start.

Viswanathan Anand from India will face Norways magnus Carlsen for the title.

You can follow the match here: http://chennai2013.fide.com/

Sites like chess.com and chessbomb.com will also cover the match.

Does anyone know what Thumbs.db (database) is for? It once came with a custom set I downloaded, but It dosen't look like something neccesary. I'd just like to know what it's for to make sure it's not virus or something.

This is the path for scoring 348 on Loop Holes (CCLP2 #64). After drawing this picture with the help of the public tws, it took me one try to get the bold myself. There are very few waits so the route is pretty easy. Before taking the chip in the room with the bug circling counterclockwise you need to wait a move, which is easily done by pushing against a wall once. The level was made by Dale Brian, and this score was first reported by Shmuel Siegel over a decade ago.

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Chuck's Challenge 3D is about to be released for PC Mac & Linux on Desura.

http://www.desura.com/games/chucks-challenge-3d

You can download a Demo today which contains 5 levels + Weekly puzzle and the ability to create & share levels.

Enjoy.

My hard drive's been giving me trouble, off and on, for quite some time now. (You may recall some episodes in the past.) Well, over the weekend, it pretty much failed completely. So...I'm now waiting for a replacement.

In the meantime, I've discovered that Skype is now available for Linux, so I'm trying to set it up on my other system. If all goes well, hopefully I can get back online with you guys. If not, I may be out of the loop for a week or so, however long it takes for the new HDD to arrive and for me to reinstall everything. So, if anything happens that I should know about, please post it here, or send me an email.

I do intend to keep on playing/voting throughout this phase.