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@shankypanky Is this supposed to be unranked?

@NivlacM I got got by this again, when I thought the cities were all on the French Riviera for a day or two. The sea continues to be a Ben miniboss

@phenomist this is a NO

why are they back

@jatloe lol you missed some developments

@bens oh no now im going to need to resolve everything while barely having an idea of what happened

@jatloe If you want help with some resolutions:

I think everything above 90% and everything below 10% safely resolves YES and NO respectively, with the exception of "Korean needs to be sounded out to solve the puzzle".

Now the harder edge cases.

• Korean needs to be translated/sounded out: Well, the answer's Hangul is Gallineus's full name in Korean. But this is already a transliteration so is basically sounding out the Latin into Korean. You don't need to know the Korean language beyond how the Hangul syllables are pronounced.

• Ignore coastal/maritime/island themes: Not relevant besides 1930 TdF's route being relatively coastal. So likely resolves YES

• You should apply effort to paths which reduce to a letter/word: The paths ended up reducing to a Hangul character. Is this a letter/word? Probably not, it's a syllable. The letter market suggests N/A'ing it.

• Pedigree, human, or animal: This depends on the interpretation of this answer. Gallineus was a human. Nothing else about the solution really involves whatever this means.

• Transpositions: I really don't think this is true. You could squint at the error correction process as changing points around but that is a huge stretch

@phenomist tysm!! i will check these myself too but this is very helpful

@phenomist

Ignore coastal/maritime/island themes: since the intention seemed to be about puzzle 1, I resolved it YES

Reduce to letter/word: It feels that a Hangeul character is fundamentally not a letter, considering the very strong dependence of puzzles on English letters in general, so I resolved both NO

Pedigree, human, or animal: Yeah this is only used in literally the final answer, so I resolved it NO

Transpositions: This feels like an obvious NO

Korean needs to be translated/sounded out: I am a bit reluctant to say it is specifically sounding out instead of translated, especially because the Korean Wikipedia article has the exact same transliteration: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%88%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%90%EB%88%84%EC%8A%A4

Any thoughts on this?

If any of these seem particularly wrong to anyone, please tell me!

@jatloe I would argue pretty strongly that it's a transliteration, not a translation

@archvenison @marvingardens

ok yeah I think I agree

@phenomist FIWI, I had bet yes to "pedigree, human, or animal" just before resolution because Gallineus was a human. I made enough that I don't really care about this one market, but that sounded like a yes to me? Feel free to just say I'm being greedy.

@DannyqnOht it's really badly phrased, but I would argue the answer isn't part of the "correct approach"

Had a few minutes to try and validate prior art. To anyone else doing the same, do you think the sequence could be Paris --> Malo-les-Bains rather than Caen --> Paris?

Got a handle on the drawing method and checked the first three days (against deliberate sabotage, mainly) and their error-corrections, which seem totally sound. Will not have time to continue anytime soon.

@marvingardens I called it re: starting cities. ("called it" presumably after eliza had already completed the solve)

@Eliza why are all your comments periods??...

I was offline and now I have no idea what has happened

does this mean you have the answer?

@epic No I just moved all the comment section to another place because this one was getting too busy.

@Eliza where exactly?

@epic It's not publicly available at this time.

@Eliza wait can I view the edit history bc I'm a mod but can no one else see the edit history?!

@bens Everyone can see it lol.

@Eliza On the internet, everything is forever. A good lesson for anyone who thinks it's a good idea to share things like their name, address, photo, and credit card number.

@Eliza the AI is gonna train on our personalities based on our Manifold comment history, it's so over

@Eliza I cant see it lol

@epic you just need to click on "edited"