Well, I finally got around to making a decent MinorHack website. For those of you who don't remember, the first thread is here. The difference between the old one and this one is that now there is a rule-o-matic. 1 rule is arbitrarily selected to govern entries.

Anyways, I want to run a few of these. I want to do 2 this weekend, and I'm hoping, if I can get enough interest, that I can get one in today also. Anybody up for it? Give me times, and I will schedule it!

Also, spend some time at the site and add a few rules. We need rules to get the competition interesting!

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Current competition is scheduled for 2100 GMT on September 3.

I mean it would be 1 hour long, and start at 6 p.m. EDT

Yeah, but that takes the social aspect out of it Plus it allows cheating. Not that we really care about that

Okay, let's get some more rules in the system, okay?

I'd like to on Sunday night or something, but I wouldn't be able to tonight. I need more notice!

How about 72 hours? No, wait....

I don't think I'm good enough to hack something in one hour

OTOH, I enjoy a good challenge every now and then

Hmmm...on the Rules section of your site, I don't see any rules. Or...has none been approved yet? Browser: Opera.

I can see the rules in the xml, but there all smashed together in one long paragraph.

That's it, I'm going to make my own internet browser and it shall be named: sUcks (Super URL Connecting at Killer Speeds).

Anyway, the rules page looks fine now...odd.

[edit] - Added some really zany rules.

Impressive! 3761 after a few tries.

EDIT: 4343!

Btw, you should have limited the placement of the green circles more to the centre of the board. If you get one in one of the corners, you can't even get to it. And you could make a minimum distance from the last green circle, otherwise if you're lucky, you can get three or four in a straight line.

I put this code in eat_treat() instead of the two lines that calculate the new x/y:

  while (1) {
    newx = (rand()%460)+80;
    newy = (rand()%320)+80;

    if ((treat.x - newx)*(treat.x - newx) + (treat.y - newy)*(treat.y - newy) >= 150*150) {
      treat.x = newx;
      treat.y = newy;
      break;
    }
  }

Got 5758 points the first time.

So does that mean you're in for this weekend, Jonathan?