Timeline for I'd like my latest question to be a team effort. Are there any conventions about this?
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | Deusovi Mod | "Once you have identified the technique" holds a lot of weight there. For the 'one and one and one...' problem, the 'technique' was just multiplication of the number of options for each. If you have n options for one thing, and m options for another, then your total number of options is n×m. On the other hand, for grid-deduction puzzles like Sudoku or Tapa, the 'technique' holds a lot of specialized deductions, and can exploit interesting qualities of the puzzle setup. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 12:24 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | @Deusov - Surely any question involving maths/logic with a unique answer is simply a matter of calculation once you have identified the technique. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 12:20 | answer | added | F1Krazy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Deusovi Mod | (Also, it sounds like this is just a straightforward mathematical calculation with some research to get 'inputs' -- not a puzzle? I may be misunderstanding: I'd have to see the question to make sure.) | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 18:16 | comment | added | Deusovi Mod | I wasn't implying that your question was necessarily open-ended -- I just meant to say that the approach as a "game", where you intend multiple people to post separate answers, seems to be the wrong way to go about it. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 17:50 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | @Deusovi - I have created a mathematical puzzle that is specified completely and has a single answer - with a request to show the working. Each part has its own single answer and they have to be combined to get the final result.Strict logic constrains the maths. There are also a couple of historical bits that are unlikely to be multi-valued IMO. The puzzle is a tightly rewritten update of my "One and one and one ..." question that was closed. I'll remove the request for team work and submit as is. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 17:08 | comment | added | Deusovi Mod | (This "game" vs "puzzle" dichotomy is the problem with many open-ended questions.) | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | Deusovi Mod | I'm not sure this is a thing you should directly aim for. Too many partial answers is generally a bad thing: it fragments information across multiple answers in a confusing way. And "award points" seems to me to be the exact wrong way to go about this: it's coming at this from the "game" perspective, rather than the "puzzle" perspective. The point of this site is to provide puzzles that can be definitively solved, not games that people compete in. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 15:49 | history | asked | chasly - supports Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |