Aaron, do we get a published puzzle credit for unfeatured puzzles?
Posted on Tue Mar 25, 2008 09:25 AM |
Not sure what you mean by credit. You don't get any points until 100 solves.
[2] In our profile, it says "published puzzles" with a number by it.
If you go to Arnott's profile, you can see that his unfeatured puzzle is shown under his published puzzles. -well you could - it's the tanga image on March 20th.
Posted on Tue Mar 25, 2008 09:36 AM |
Can an unfeatured puzzle still eventually become a featured puzzle? therefore one day collecting more points.
What about puzzles that have been sitting in your unpublished section for a while? Will they be reconsidered?
[5] I'll second that. The unfeatured puzzles so far have been just as good as the featured ones.
[6] I would expect this not to be feasible, as people will have already solved it. Would they then solve it again to get more points? Wouldn't they have an unfair advantage in competition for the 10PM(eastern) bonus point rush?
Posted on Tue Mar 25, 2008 09:52 AM |
[9] yeah, forgot about the whole bonus points to the first 100 solvers thing. I never waste my time waiting up for that. I wonder how a puzzle gets picked to be featured? I saw one that was "just butter" once, that was awful and it was featured.
Posted on Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:03 AM |
unfeatured puzzles will not be featured later as people will already know the answer
and yes, eventually all of the old puzzles will either be published in the unfeatured section or rejected
I'd rather see everything be "Featured" one way or another. Maybe have three OWW puzzles every night. Don't worry about Hard or Easy, since that's subjective (and often wrong :) ) anyway. And no one feels slighted that their puzzle got relegated to the "back page". :)
[10]
Back when the butter puzzle was published [in the dark ages] there was only ONE puzzle published each night (*gasp* Horrors!!). There were no categories of Hard/Easy Featured/Unfeatured - It defaulted to "featured" when they started up Tanga 2.0 - as did all the puzzles published up through a couple of weeks ago.
Posted on Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:09 PM |
Aaron -
The hypercross is my favorite puzzle to create - might we see unfeatured hypercrosses as well?? I actually have many of them that have yet to be published.
I look forward to your reply!
[12] 3 puzzles a night - interesting. That made me think of something:
They post 3 HOOWs, 3EOOWs, 3 Crptos, 3 Hyper and you HAVE to PICK one of the 3 in each category to solve and that's all you get to solve -you can't solve the other 2. Only people choosing those get to solve them. Mua ha ha ha.
OR, on a completely different line of thinking, - maybe once a puzzle has, say, 500 solvers, another puzzle is automatically posted! That way puzzles could be posted at any time the counter hits 500. The timing of that could be random enough to allow people to solve at different times than a standard 'post' time and therefore open more poeple to potentially getting top 100 tanga points. This would also encourage more people to solve as you know you need 500 answers. I kind of like that idea!
By giving points based on number of solves would seems to favor easy puzzles? How about points for number of people tried to solve?
Will we be notified by e-mail if one of our puzzles goes into the unfeatured section?
[18] But it also discourages puzzles that are unsolvable.
[21] Can you add an account setting wherein you select your preferred method of notification on things? (There's already a spot where you can enter an email address, choose to get/not get the newsletter, and choose to get/not get product notifications. Just looking for another option on that screen. I, personally, prefer Tangagram notification for Tanga items. Truth be told, I don't check the email associated with this account all that often. Others, I'm assuming, check their email more frequently than tanga (blasphemy! :) ) so, they might wish the notification to be the other way around.)
[15] I like idea #2 as I am never able to be one of the first to solve a puzzle due to timing.
Unfeatured Fun is good.
[11] Question: If something gets marked as rejected, is it possible for the creator to simply modify it and have it back in the "to be reviewed" queue? Or does it need to be resubmitted and issued a new ID?
[21] [22] keeping with what a lot of "message boards" do... I'd like an option to get notified via email when I get a Tangagram (which is just another name for "Personal Message" or "Instant Message" depending on what forum package is installed"). Then "all things Tanga" would just be Tangagrams and those that want an email can choose to get it. But this really has nothing to do with Unfeatured Fun. :)
Posted on Wed Mar 26, 2008 04:16 PM |
It would be nice to know if our submitted puzzles have been looked at or if they have been rejected ... even nicer to know why they are rejected.
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Get ready for more puzzles! We get many more submissions than we can feature so we have started releasing Unfeatured Puzzles.
If you click on “PLAY” and then “VIEW UNFEATURED” (top right of screen) you’ll see the unfeatured puzzles.
Unfeatured puzzles can show up at any time, on any day. Multiple unfeatured puzzles can come out on a single day. Think of it like a YouTube for puzzles.
All Unfeatured puzzles are worth a flat 3 Tanga Points for solving, and, unlike Featured puzzles, there are no bonus points awarded to the first 100 solvers.
Unfeatured puzzle creators get no initial Tanga Points for publication, but they will earn points for number of solves: 25 TP for every 100 completions.