Final Crozzle Standings

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CONGRATULATIONS TO 

	   F R A N Z   K O R N T N E R   for   j i g s a w

		  WINNER OF THE Crozzle POTM !!!!

Stan Peijffers wins the Tournament of Champions crown for crossroads.
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Links for your pleasure:

The Consolation Prizes

Summary of All Entries as Supplied by Authors

Pointers to The Code of Selected Entries

The best crosswords created by the programs

The wordlists used for the final tests

Short version of the problem.

Long version of the problem.

Back to the list of problems.

Here's the results of the final run:


The final scores are as follows:

	WORDS:  the total number of words used from ALL THREE wordlists
	CONNS:  the number of "connector" letters in the THREE solutions
	LETTR:  the total number of letters in the THREE solutions
	Seconds:   time as measured by timex for all THREE

             ENTRY  WORDS CONNS LETTR Seconds LANG  Programmer
      ------------   ---- ----- ----- ------- ----  -------------------
            jigsaw   212   280   646  794.83  GCC  Franz Korntner
           knuppel   201   227   613 1777.48  G++  P.Frants S.Pieterse
        Wordsworth   198   235   607 1788.40    C  Davor Slamnig
          sswordpu   192   204   587 1799.94    C  Bob Ashenfelter
             Binky   189   201   596  180.13  GCC  Robert Rounthwaite
               Gak   188   218   559 1787.23  G++  Justin Legakis
       DontCrossMe   185   182   586 1698.50  G++  Mike Goldshteyn
       theos_cross   173   183   540 1457.99  GCC  Theo Sprokholt
        2RoadsCroz   173   177   571 1504.98    C  Gary Gressel
           CrossIt   173   171   590 1642.85    C  Dennis Brooks
        alphaCross   170   202   640  678.19  C++  Glenn Bradford
        WordMatrix   170   173   578 1794.57    C  Annemarie Kram
        nonplussed   168   175   532   71.44    C  Greg Marston
         Crozzilla   167   182   557  112.34  C++  James Rothenberger
              mash   163   170   597 1651.39    C  Dave Lynch
         santacroz   156   172   611   12.79    C  Ag Primatic
         CrossEyed   147   151   606 1232.29  GCC  Randy Saint
          lacrosse   145   150   417 1795.53    C  Mark Schnitzius
  RedCrozzleDevils   144   144   483 1614.49  G++  Peter Conrad
              CUTE   143   144   566 1611.11    C  Corin Anderson
       SundayTimes   136   140   491   41.17  C++  Joe Eccles
          krozz-it   132   138   400 1166.40    C  Jan Venema
      Cross-Stitch   129   188   427 1023.72    C  Alex Popiel
         manhattan   126   136   413 1141.31  GCC  Michael Strauch
          CrozzApp   120   128   381  552.08 JAVA  James Rothenberger
     WizardOfCrozz   119   135   645  905.76  GCC  Chris Hendrie
              mots   114   115   394   18.30    C  Ralph Meira
      Crozzlometry   108   113   532  387.82    C  Brace Stout
           Bhagvan   101   113   431 1204.23  G++  Bhagvan Konmadi
         Croissant    26    23   164    0.45  C++  David Peterson
       Just_Becroz     6     3    35    0.33    C  Scott Everett
               one     3     0    13    0.27  C++  Ionel Vasilescu
           hongtao     0     0     0    0.00  C++  Hongtao Gu
               xid     0     0     0    0.00    C  Ken Weinert

======== And now ... the Tournament of Champions for past POTM winners
========  (since past winners cannot win again, they compete separately!)

             ENTRY  WORDS CONNS LETTR Seconds LANG  Programmer
      ------------   ---- ----- ----- ------- ----  -------------------
        crossroads   210   251   664 1746.12    C  =Stan Peijffers
     crucigramista   207   255   643 1799.33  GCC  =Andre' Wilhelmus
        Crozzodile   200   253   615 1112.07  GCC  =Chad Hurwitz
      crozzlectomy    50    47   171 1781.69  KSH  =Fred Hicinbothem



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There were three wordlists used (they were picked about two weeks ago):
  (I'll circulate them to the participants shortly)

 o worldnet.list is exerpted from http://www.att.com/worldnet
 o plato.list    is one of the dialogs of Plato - in English
 o german.list   is the content of a mathematics directory from the web