[eclipsegirl]

Congrats for being no 1 in the Year to Date ranking. It is not easy.

Accolades to kzfmtkhs239. You did very well too.

[paulv66]

I didn’t see the final rankings. And I wonder if they will be adjusted for extra puzzles that relate to 2025 but are solved in 2026? Given that a month is allowed for the submission of such puzzles, perhaps a tighter deadline might be imposed for inclusion in last year’s totals, if these are to be allowed.

Whether this happens or not, it would be nice if Patrick could clarify the rules in this regard and if he could produce an archive list showing the final top 10 or 20 scores for 2025.

[pnm]

I didn’t see the final rankings. And I wonder if they will be adjusted for extra puzzles that relate to 2025 but are solved in 2026? Given that a month is allowed for the submission of such puzzles, perhaps a tighter deadline might be imposed for inclusion in last year’s totals, if these are to be allowed.

There was a discussion about this at some point.
The extra puzzle point only count towards the total for that year.

In other words: if you solve the extra because of Dec 30th, 2025 (for example), the points will _not_ be added to the total for 2026.

I'll add a note to that effect to the info below the rankings list.

Whether this happens or not, it would be nice if Patrick could clarify the rules in this regard and if he could produce an archive list showing the final top 10 or 20 scores for 2025.

Also discussed before probably (not sure ), full lists for all years would be nice I think

[pnm]

Thinking about this, I should probably remove the extra puzzle points from the "year to date" rankings.

And now is a good time to make that change

[paulv66]

I guess that simplifies things. But you would still need to adjust for puzzles that straddle the year end I.e, 12x12s, Tuesday 9x9 and Friday difficult killer. Didn’t apply this year, but likely to apply more often than not.

[pnm]

I guess that simplifies things. But you would still need to adjust for puzzles that straddle the year end I.e, 12x12s, Tuesday 9x9 and Friday difficult killer. Didn’t apply this year, but likely to apply more often than not.

I think it makes most sense that these go to the "puzzle year" (so if Dec 31 had had a 12x12 for example, it would have counted towards 2025).

The true annual ranking would then be known at most 2 days into the new year.

[frederick]

Did anyone get a pic of the final standings?

[paulv66]

I think it’s been made clear that extra puzzles that were published in a particular year would not count towards the following year’s total if they were solved in the following year. The question I was raising was whether they would be included in the final rankings for the year in which they were published if they were solved in the following year within the permitted time limit.

I guess it’s pretty much a moot point if extra puzzles are going to be excluded from the year to date rankings from now on. The only remaining issue is how do we deal with the regular puzzles that have extra days to solve and that are actually solved in the year following the year of publication.

[pnm]

re: paulv66, exactly

and re: final standings, I should make something so you can see the final standings of previous years.
(will take a bit of work)

[pnm]

Here's an initial list for 2025, more to follow:

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1. sandrider, 16160         16. skb, 15420                31. vanderneut, 14447   
2. jpoos, 16152             17. joha, 15347               32. ronshep, 14386      
3. clm, 16152               18. megan, 15325              33. sjs34, 14340        
4. swimminghorses, 16136    19. radicarian, 15281         34. bridger, 14078      
5. ldb, 16102               20. jbj, 15143                35. wm3003, 14011       
6. opa4, 16084              21. cargyropoulos, 15141      36. menm, 13801         
7. eclipsegirl, 16082       22. veryevilking, 15138       37. andre47, 13757      
8. fzpowerman47, 16049      23. mikas, 15043              38. sietse, 13728       
9. lowkeyta, 16019          24. gleneugene, 15001         39. muis, 13714         
10. kenk, 15975             25. judithdewilde29, 14898    40. johnnywalker, 13598 
11. irinna, 15942           26. hartmudo, 14896           41. gergie, 13384       
12. paulv66, 15778          27. joeyxiv, 14854            42. chuckz1956, 13262   
13. kadelson, 15707         28. hugo, 14846               43. elaxdal, 13179      
14. dab, 15628              29. frederick, 14842          44. giel, 13094         
15. mparisi, 15571          30. aldose, 14827             45. diane123, 13068