Final Standings

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CONGRATULATIONS TO 

	Frederic van der Plancke   for SplitMoo

		  WINNER OF THE May 1999 MOO POTM !!!!

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Links for your pleasure:

The Consolation Prizes

Some observations on approaching the problem

Summary of All Entries as Supplied by Authors

Pointers to The Code of Selected Entries

Short version of the problem.

Long version of the problem.

Back to the list of problems.

Here's the results of the final run:

                                 Sunday  2 00:43:13 EDT 1999
WEEK 12			      57 entered
			     305 asked for details.
			    1754 are on the mailing list!

The lead changed hands three times in the last four hours
 of the contest ... with the winning SplitMoo arriving
 90 minutes before the deadline!

The three words for the finals:  DUCK  WITHOUT  RESOURCES
 were chosen several weeks ago from the web.

In the cheaters division (using dictionaries) Susan Adams'
 bigmoo edged out Mad_Cow_Cheating from Frederic van der Plancke
 trying for a double win!

Thanks to all who participated ... I'll be sending some
 additional mail in the next week, and the website will
 be updated by next Friday.

=Fred


            ENTRY        GUESSES    ORD LANG  WHO 
    ----------------     -------    --- ----  -----------------------

            SplitMoo    24 (  7/  9/ *8)   gC Frederic van der Plancke

     SchrodingersCow    25 (  7/ *8/ 10)   gC William Little
           MooIndigo    27 (  7/  9/ 11)    c Scott Kennedy
     dancing_letters    27 (  7/ 10/ 10)   gC Pavel Ouvarov
               Skunk    28 (  8/ *8/ 12)   gC Alexey Zhelvis
          StupidComp    29 (  9/ *8/ 12)   gC Trieu Nguyen
        QuackTheDuck    30 ( *5/ 17/ *8)    c Wolfram Hinderer
             deepmoo    31 (  7/ 11/ 13)   gC Sean Barrett
            MooFight    32 (  9/ 11/ 12)    c Kris Kenis
    NoBullPeacePrize    32 (  9/ 10/ 13)   gC Randy Saint
              MooBoo    33 (  8/ 13/ 12)    C Rolandas Gricius
           one_guess    34 (  8/ 12/ 14)    c Ionel Santa
                Bozo    35 (  8/ 11/ 16)    c Paul Banta
              zigzag    35 (  7/ 13/ 15)    c Jaco Cronje
            scharade    36 ( 10/ 12/ 14)   gC Michael Strauch
               steak    37 (  6/  9/ 22)   gc Ben Angrim
               EISAR    38 ( 10/ 15/ 13)    c Alex Popiel
          SimpleMind    39 ( 12/ 14/ 13)    c Edmond Bernardy
      Nero_the_Horse    42 ( 12/ 16/ 14) PERL Mike Liddell
         not_bullish    45 ( 10/ 11/ 24) PERL Eric Prestemon
               TOEFL    46 ( 12/ 13/ 21)    c Sergey Kondrachshenko
      Leap_Year_Baby    50 ( 12/ 20/ 18)   gc Yoichi Kono
          Cowculator    55 ( 19/ 18/ 18) JAVA Ted Alper
          Revolution    58 ( 11/ 24/ 23)    C Dave Krofssik
            MOOguess    59 ( 19/ 22/ 18)    c Arkady Zhikharev
           MOOtPoint    61 ( 13/ 24/ 24)    c Shawn Smith
        Daily_Farmer    67 ( 11/ 33/ 23)    C Gabriel Gambetta
            oxmoomoo    73 ( 17/ 22/ 34)    C Kwok Ngai
               sieve    73 ( 15/ 29/ 29) JAVA Aivars Zogla
              Abacus    78 ( 17/ 28/ 33)    c Igor Volkov
           Max_Power    78 ( 20/ 23/ 35)   gC Ed Mandy
              newbie    81 ( 17/ 30/ 34)   gc Arlie Stephens
             Mooniac    84 ( 22/ 30/ 32) JAVA Denis Konovalchik
      Brave_Cow_Word    90 ( 26/ 36/ 28)    c Lourenco Arnasalon
           HitOrMiss    91 ( 17/ 29/ 45) JAVA Stuart Rowland
          Spelling-B    93 ( 21/ 38/ 34)    c Andrew Gauld
               rayka    94 ( 23/ 37/ 34)    c O.Jansen-Olliges A.Gerns
           superfreq    94 ( 20/ 36/ 38) PERL Dan Schmidt
          Moot_Force    97 ( 26/ 35/ 36)   SH Brian Rapp
            themoops   101 ( 32/ 30/ 39)    c Stephen Palmer
                 pat   104 ( 24/ 36/ 44)    c Bernard Hatt
            simental   104 ( 26/ 40/ 38)    c Marty Fouts
          Fools_Gold   111 ( 32/ 35/ 44)    c Jeffrey Jackson
               naive   111 ( 30/ 37/ 44)   gc Michael Chen
             MereMOO  1021 (999/ 11/ 11)    c Pavel Zaletskiy
          u_can_mu_2  1051 ( 22/ 30/999)   gc Mark McCann
      Scrooge_MooDuc  2006 (  8/999/999)    C Boris Bulayev
                Stan  2006 (  8/999/999)   gC Steven Burnap
              GotMoo  2019 ( 21/999/999) JAVA Jeffrey Fielding
           Moohahaha  2997 (999/999/999)    c Gneen Halfling
          UdderGuess  2997 (999/999/999) JAVA Jim Rothenberger
               XYZZY  2997 (999/999/999)   gC Joshua Huntington
              bovine  2997 (999/999/999)    c Mark Masten
             nayobka  2997 (999/999/999)    c Evgeniya Bagdasarova

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          bigmoo(CHEAT) 15 (  5/  4/  6)    c Susan Adams
Mad_Cow_Cheating(CHEAT) 17 (  7/  5/  5)   gC Frederic vanderPlancke

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