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Rules
Reading these rules is not crucial to playing the contest, as most are self-explanatory, and some likely do not even apply to you. This page exists mainly to settle any confusions you may have about my contest.
0. The contest is officially over. I'm leaving this page up for archival purposes, but I haven't run the contest for several years now.
First to guess correctly, first to earn ₧: You will not receive points for anything if you post about it after it has been found, so if you see anyone else making a post on the topic, you might want to be quick!
I reserve the right to bar you from making repeated guesses for the same question.
Even if you make several guesses towards the same question with only one sentence, they still count as separate attempts.
The amount of fakes you have participated in does not increase until you successfully answer a question in a fake you have not previously answered questions in.
If a question offers bonus points, and you fail to meet the criteria for the bonus, yet you correctly answer the question itself, the bonus points are lost and can no longer be obtained.
You cannot earn the bonus part of a question without earning the regular part (if there is one). I will simply not count your answer and anyone is free to use your answer to the bonus when they answer the actual question.
If you do not have an account at Sal's Realm, Zybez, or Tip.It, you cannot obtain ₧, regardless of any questions you answer or any fake awards you obtain.
When 100 Bonus ₧ are lost, they get distributed based on Rank and Accuracy.*
You can buy more than you can afford, but you'll be in debt and can't buy again until you earn ₧ to pay it off.*
If you change your forum name, or participate at two forums with different usernames, let me know!*
Do not impersonate anybody, even if they are at another forum, to steal their ₧! I will report you to mods if I find out!*
Don't try to answer contest questions at a forum that I haven't posted the questions at (even if it is Sal's, Tip.It, or Zybez), unless they are from this page.*
My real-life friends are not allowed to participate in this contest. Wouldn't you agree that that would be an unfair advantage, considering I often tell my RS-playing irl friends many of the secrets I hide in the contest?
If you trade points with another player of my contest, you cannot trade them in exchange for items within RuneScape. This would be Real-World Trading, which is against RuneScape's rules. Click here to see more details about trading in my contest.
*Specifics/Fine Print: Not all rules can be made as simple as they are above, and some need extra info or explanations. Please read below for further information on them:
Rule 8 - Bonus Distributions: After 100 bonus points have been "lost" because people failed to receive them (see Rule # 5), I will distribute them based on the Accuracy % of players. Starting from the player ranked in first place, I will give each player a percentage of the remaining points equal to half their Accuracy % (the points you earn are rounded up to the nearest whole point). If there are any points remaining at the end of this, the player ranked last will receive all remaining points. You can keep track of these "lost" bonus points with the "Spent Bonus" box on the scoresheet (at the top of the Spent column). Note that distributions did not always happen for every 100 Bonus ₧ lost: I increase the number when more people join the contest, so that a larger portion of people receive points each distribution. Until 8/14/10, distributions happened every 50₧. Also note that until 8/14/10, you received your whole Accuracy % worth of the remaining points, causing a distribution to end with fewer people earning points.
Rule 9 - Debt: You may purchase rewards worth more than the amount of points you currently have, but you will be in debt as a result. You cannot order anything while you are in debt, and you can never purchase an order which would put you above your debt limit. If your Total Earned is at least 5₧, your debt limit is 25₧. If your Total Earned is at least 50₧, your debt limit is raised to 50₧. If your Total Earned is not at least 5₧, you cannot go into debt at all.
Rule 10 - Telling me about forum name changes: Not so much of a rule as it is a recommendation - if you change your forum name, or you have a different name at a different forum (out of the three that the contest takes place in, that is), I highly advise you to let me know! If you don't, there's a good chance I won't know, and I may add you at two places in the scoresheet, splitting your rewards and progress in two. Obviously this poses more of a downside than any real benefits, as you'll have trouble claiming rewards!
Rule 11 - No impersonating: Obviously, do not break any of the rules at Sal's, Tip.It, or Zybez. This includes, notably, that you cannot impersonate somebody even if they are at a different forum. If you attempt to do so, and the victim complains that they seem to be earning points without answering anything, or losing points without spending any, I will not hesitate to report the offending account to the moderators at the respective forum. Also, I'm not stupid - I'll check the dates each accounts were created at their respective forums, so I won't bother troubling the wrong moderators. Also, if both accounts seem too old for an intentional impersonation to be likely (especially with a common name), I would probably instead question the "impersonator" and accuser/victim and simply split the contest participation of the two apart. Note that I keep records in more detail than the basic scoresheet implies, so I can tell which points were earned at which forum.
Rule 12 - Don't answer questions not posted at your forum: If I do not post contest questions on your forum's version of the topic, and you choose to visit another forum to see the questions, you must post (or PM me) your guesses/answers at that forum. I do not usually make the questions for every fake available at every forum I post it at, because this would make the game end faster. Based on how many questions there are, I often limit the contest to only one or two of the three forums. If you post/PM guesses at any forum where I do not have the contest posted (and I will put a warning about this where the contest questions would normally be), I will not give you ₧ or count it as an attempt, and anyone else is free to post it at the proper forum. Note that this does not apply to Miscellaneous Questions, which can always be answered via PM or post at any of the three forums my contest is available at.