Friday, May 29, 2009

Story Post: [Challenge] Reverse Auction

Time for another challenge!

To have any chance of succeeding at this challenge, you need to PM me a message with nothing but three different integers which are each from 0 to 100 inclusive. Only the first such message from any given player will count; I’ll ignore any further ones. Also, this challenge ends on Monday, so you have the weekend to meet it. A “unique” number is a number that exactly one Contestant submits this way.

  • To succeed at this challenge, at least two of your three numbers must be unique numbers (it’s OK if they all are, but two out of three is good enough).
  • To become the Champion of this challenge, you must be the person who submitted the lowest of all the numbers that is both a) unique amongst all Contestants, and b) submitted by a Contestant who succeeded at the challenge. (So if contestant A submits 1, 2, 3, contestant B submits 1, 5, 7, contestant C submits 2, 3, 6, and contestant D submits 4, 8, 9, contestants B and D succeed, and contestant D becomes the champion because 4 is the lowest unique number there, and it was submitted by someone who succeeded; even though A didn’t succeed, A saying 1 still prevents B’s 1 from being unique.)
  • This challenge ends on Monday, when I’ll announce the results.

I remind the contestants that every failure removes $10,000 from the prize fund, so you may want to discuss your strategy before sending the PMs (the comments to this post would be a good place). Remember, though, nothing forces people to actually do / have done what they claim they’ll do / have done here!

Comments

smith:

30-05-2009 17:12:08 UTC

I almost sent a message starting “Host - here are my numbers” and then realized that would not be considered a proper entry - it needs to be the numbers only (although I assume a subject line is ok).