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(Message started by: Carl_Cox on Oct 3^rd, 2002, 7:42am)

Title: Puzzle organization
Post by Carl_Cox on Oct 3^rd, 2002, 7:42am

I'm curious as to thoughts on other organizational styles of puzzles. Easy/medium/hard is okay for a some, but there are others; wwu has already proposed and implemented some, like cs and putnam exam. Other catagories, such as math based, logic based, spacially based, etc seem like possibilities.

Note, I'm not proposing a change right now; every scheme I can think of would have so much over lap (which puzzle goes where?) that it might be unwieldy. On the other hand, people like me, who are more interested in pure logic puzzles (riddles) and less in math-based logic puzzles. So maybe there exists a reorganization which may be more useful.

Anyway, any thoughts?

Title: Re: Puzzle organization
Post by Eric Yeh on Oct 12^th, 2002, 4:07pm

Hey Carl, look there you are. ;)

My thoughts on arrangement: I think ideally, everything would be uner one "category", but there should be flags for each problem. If you model this in a relational database, it is quite simple: just give flags for whether it is cs or not, whether it is putnam or not, wherther it is logic or not, etc. People would be able to select by topic or unions of topics, etc., not to mention select based on continuous (possibly voted on) fields such as degree of difficulty, ingenuity, originality, etc. This organization structure would be much more flexible, and removes your worry about overlap.

Best,
Eric