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Notes from the organizer: Welcome to Revolver, an on-going set of Apterous challenges for you to try as much as you like. I set a challenge once every five days, and each one runs for 20 days so four challenges run at any time. This one is conundrums-based, and the challenges rotate through letters, numbers, conundrums and a mix of all three.

You can play whichever challenges you like, as much as you like; all you need to do is sign up to one on its round page (signing up is optional but it's helpful as feedback if nothing else) and get started on it. Every challenge has an objective you need to complete, with extra points available depending on how you do it. These points then get converted into final scores as follows:

1st place: 100 points
2nd place: 80 points
3rd place: 70 points
All others: scaled between 20 and 60 points
In the event of ties points get split equally, so if two people tie for second they get 75 each.

The tournament has an overall leaderboard https://sites.google.com/site/apterousrevolver/leaderboard which is the total of all these final scores you've achieved.

So, here's the latest one, numbered C3 because it's conundrums challenge 3.

Name: LIVES

Objective: Score at least 100 points, with no more than ten wrong answers, in an Instant Conundrum game where the rounds have a total time of up to 200 seconds.

Variant/format: Instant, in English (not another language or CSW), with round times anywhere between 3 and 20 seconds. If you do 20-second rounds you can have 10 of them; if you do 3-second rounds you can have up to 66 of them, because this is no more than 200 seconds in total. You don't need to use all 200 seconds of round time.

Scoring: Whatever you get is your score, provided you get no more than ten wrong answers/misses. Note that for Instant you score 10 points for getting the answer in the first 10% of the round, 9 for the next 10%, and so on. In a Conundrum Attack this is one point per second, because the rounds are 10 seconds long.

If you complete the challenge and want me to know about it, COMMENT ON THIS PAGE with a link to your game. If you better it, comment again and that will replace your previous game. After every few completions I'll put up a table of who's scored what.

Hopefully that's all clear, but if not let me know. Good luck everyone!

Ran from: 6 – 25 May 2014. Format: Instant Conundrum Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 6. Completed: 6.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)