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

You can play whichever challenges you like; all you need to do is sign up to one on its round page 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

The tournament has an overall leaderboard which is the total of all these final scores you've achieved.

So, here's the first one, numbered N1 because it's numbers challenge #1.

Name: EGGPLANT
Objective: Score 120 or over in an Aegilops Numbers Attack, playing it BY OMELETTE RULES. This means you have to use all six numbers in your solution. Note that "dead ends" are not allowed; you have to actually put all the numbers together.
Variant/format: No custom set-ups this time; it has to be a 30-second, 20-round game where you pick in alternate rounds.
Scoring: Whatever you actually get is your provisional score, which will be converted to the final scores (see above) at the end. Any rounds not using all six numbers are discounted but do not affect other rounds in the game. You might like to know that Aegilops is STEPDOWN scored, so for example getting two away scores eight points out of ten.

If you complete the challenge and want me to know about it, COMMENT ON THIS PAGE with a link to your game since there are no hidden tactics going on here. If you score on any rounds but without using all the numbers then please say which one(s) so I don't have to check every round. 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: 22 March – 10 April 2014. Format: Aegilops Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 6. Completed: 6.

Results and fixtures

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