Tonight's Contest (Tryker wedding)

[knitcucumber]

It took me forever (due to lack of sleep) to figure out that I was typing in the last names instead of the first names, even though I figured out who was with who pretty early on. Grr. Doesn't pay to read really fast sometimes.

Anyway... I just wanted to point out that the question asked you to list the names of the girls+boys, not boys+girls. But in the answer, it listed the guys first in each pairing. I know I probably won't get any official response on this, but I was just wondering if the answer recepticle computer was set up to take girl+boy or boy+girl?

[sblanton]

I was confused by the first name thing - for a name like Mac'Dughan Garmer, it seems that they referred to Garmer as the first name.

[morgan73]

I knew who was paired with who right off the bat, but due to massive scrolling of the instructions on how to answer, my first attempt only had the first pairing listed as girl+boy, and the next two were boy+girl.. Then after answering, I scrolled up to double check, and only THEN managed to decipher through all of it that it had to be in girl+boy format, so I retyped my answer in the correct order. I suppose thats my only complaint about the contests I've participated in so far (the last two) is that the 3 or 4 things that are said immediately before they want the answers submitted, are either on a wierd delay, or I've got some seriously funky lag thats only present in the contest window, because I get major pauses in the beginning, and then those last 4 things just pop up like someone has light speed fingers.

Then I wait 45 minutes, contest closes, and *everything* said from "Contest closed" to the very end also scrolls like mad, and shows up all at once. Both times, I've been left with a very confused 'Okay.... Now what" Feeling, as both times, I gave correct answers (though for this one it wasn't 'completely' correct the first time around due to missing instructions on how to answer), got no comfirmation of correct or not, and then waited around for what seems an insanely long period of time before seeing that I did indeed get it right, but have no idea whether I'm in the running or not.

The contest was a nice idea, but watching it in practice, and having participated, I'm just scratching my head in confusion now.

[jfoxp]

The wedding contest made sense... but made my head hurt.

After correcting it 5 times... I had the wedding right, but had the boy/girl order wrong, then I had one with a last name and a first name... and then corrected and used all last names... I realized I needed to correct for first names, and gave up... heh.

[faedyne]

Oh god. Don't tell me they listed thier full names reversed. Who EVER does that?? (except the Japanese)
Great. I had to type it in 3 times. (first time didn't edit out the last names, second time I misspelt one person's name and got the plusses and spaces reversed)
If entering the half of they name they put in front was incorrect, I'm never participating again. This was the one time I could actually figure out the answer.

[grayseal]

This was my favorite riddle to date. Finally, an answer you can not determine and type in in less than a second.

[uncus]

This was my favorite riddle to date. Finally, an answer you can not determine and type in in less than a second.

Heh, the answer took a second - 2 pairs were done before final 2 page scroll, but the formatting of the answer [and a stupid spelling error in a name] took 3 tries. Oh well, one shot left [unless there is still a "make up" that I missed?]

[knitcucumber]

Oh well, one shot left [unless there is still a "make up" that I missed?]

Good afternoon. The last official contest was yesterday, but as there were still 2 garphic cards to be given to the american players, 2 other contests have been scheduled Monday and Wednesday at the usual time.

I'll be there with my riddle fingers on.

I will agree that I did like the fact you had to think on this one and it gave people a chance to get in, rather than it being over in 15 seconds.