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Featured Mystery #3 - Sunday at 11AM, Mountian Time
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Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-20-2004 09:28

On Sunday, we'll launch our first player written Featured Mystery.

The Clutch of the Green Specter, written by your very own, Wayne Williams Jr. It is a very long mystery, in terms of the amount of reading involved. We'll have another contest. The first to solve it, without first getting a false accusation, wins a Magic Top Hat. Wayne will be inelligible to enter, of course.

Thanks to Wayne for taking the time to write this mystery. It looks really good, so I'm looking forward to seeing all of your reactions.

Please leave any questions or comments about The Clutch of The Green Specter in this thread.


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Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-20-2004 21:56

Yeah. Kind of.

Justice
Justice

May-21-2004 14:59

Is there any other way of contest that does not involve speed? The top hat look so cool but i wanna just sit down and relax with a cup of tea and taking ages doing the featured mystery :-)



Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-21-2004 15:19

Don't worry about the top hat then. This has an awful lot of text, so if skimming through it doesn't sound fun to you, just ignore the contest. I certainly don't read that fast.

Wayne Williams Jr.
Wayne Williams Jr.
Well-Connected

May-21-2004 22:29

Hey, what do you mean "awful"? :)

But in an earlier thread, I expressed much the same as Justice. I gave some ideas for a non-speed-based contest, but I gather it would be rather difficult for Sleuth Admin to implement.

Someone suggested having a limited contest open period, where anyone can start whenever they like, but the time taken would be recorded and then the winner will later be announced. But I don't know how technically difficult this may be.


Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-22-2004 09:42

Well, it seems to me that the way to do a non-speed based contest would be to make people write an explanation at the end of solving the case. The problem is, the featured mysteries already explain themselves when you finish, in mystery novel style. We'd have to drop those informative endings to make such a contest work.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-22-2004 09:43

I'm going to have to delay the launch of Featured Mystery #3 a few hours. The new official launch time is 2PM, Mountain Time.

I'll post a news item about this.

Justice
Justice

May-22-2004 10:38

that non-speed based contest would be so cool, would be really funny if u then publish everyone's explanation of what actually happened hehe :-D and then the writer (wayne in this case) choose the winner :-D

Wayne Williams Jr.
Wayne Williams Jr.
Well-Connected

May-22-2004 11:40

An open-ended mystery with players contributing their own theories about how the crime went? That idea did cross my mind before, but I foresee some issues.

1)Somebody gotta go through the answers one by one.

2)The result will be somewhat subjective. As Justice pointed out, it would have to be "judged" by someone, and therefore debatable.

But it could very well be interesting. However, I don't think this will be applied for my first submitted mystery, because the conclusion is already written, and beware...it's very long...

Wayne Williams Jr.
Wayne Williams Jr.
Well-Connected

May-22-2004 13:06

Beware the clutch of the green specter...

[A Sleuth Noir Featured Mystery coming to a monitor screen near you...]

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-23-2004 14:01

Sorry, it will be another 10 minutes or so.

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