For example, If the correct password to a puzzle is 16 but the phrase FOUR SQUARED is a part of the puzzle, solvers who answer with FOUR SQUARED should:
- Not be given a
WRONG ANSWER verdict. Instead, give a new verdict type, e.g. PARTIALLY CORRECT ANSWER.
- Contestants should also be given a clue (or something else) to indicate next steps after submitting the answer, e.g. "You're almost there!", instead of just giving out no further information.
- I guess this can be placed as a new field in the problem schema, but I'm not going to be 100% confident this will be the way.
- During contests, the intended effects of
PARTIALLY CORRECT ANSWER can either be:
- No score given, but no penalties (the red negative numbers on the scoreboard) given as well.
- Some score (literally partial credit) given, and that score is indicated with a different color. (yellow?)
- I guess if partial credit system is used I have to find a way to scale the scores again (from the interval and wrong answer penalties), or I could just make it a constant.
I guess I can do this by my own, I need to write this idea down so I don't forget when I come back to work on this project, or if someone else wants to do this then I guess I can assign it to them.
For example, If the correct password to a puzzle is
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