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Welcome to your next Test.

This is the Counters test. 

In this Test, I will provide you with a section of text.  Your test is to report how many 1 letter words are in the paragraph, how many 2 letter words, 3 letter words, 4 letter words and so on until you divided every word in the text into categories of how many letters there are in each word.

When you are ready to report your answers, post somewhere in your pod:

PRESSES GREEN BUTTON

Then post your answer in your pod.

Your official score will be how close your guess is to the actual answer.  For each word you are off you will earn the number of letters of those words regardless if you are above or below.  So if there are six 5 letter words and you said there were seven then your score would be FIVE POINTS.  If your counting is perfect then your score would be 0, the best possible score.

In addition, once the text is posted you will have at most 1 hour to post your guess otherwise you will be DISQUALIFIED from the Test.  If someone is DISQUALIFIED then they automatically finish in last place.

The Solitarian with the highest score will earn a penalty in the upcoming Treatment.  The Solitarian with the lowest score will win this Test and earn safety from the Treatment.

If scores are tied then whoever had the faster time gets the better placement.

Your 1 hour will start once I post the text

Any questions?

Do you understand and are ready to begin?

One question, if two people tie for the lowest score, does the tiebreaker go to whoever finished quicker?

wait, you already said that lol nvm

I'm ready to begin and I understand the rules

Alright.

Once I post the text, your 1 hour begins.

Good luck.

The official text is any letter in between the double brackets [[ ]]

OFFICIAL TEXT:

[[The game then cycles between "Tests" and "Treatments", along with other less strenuous activities that may be conducted by Val. During a "Test", players will compete against each other (though unaware of how the other players are performing) in completing a task set by Val. These tasks are generally physically and mentally grueling, taking several hours to complete. For example, players may have to use a piece of exercise equipment a certain number of times to gain a portion of a brain teaser to be solved. There are often additional distractions that will occur during the Test, such as Val interjecting random facts to throw off counting. Val will inform players when they are correct but will wait until either all the players have finished or after a certain amount of time before announcing the winner. The Test winner has immunity from the upcoming Treatment, and in some cases has the ability to handicap another player in the upcoming Treatment, such as by making them perform an extra round before the other players start. Sometimes, an extra reward is given to the Test winner to make their Immunity more enjoyable, such as a decent amount of sleep on their bed or a decent sized portion of real food items (usually in the form of a well rounded meal consisting of the Test winner's favorite foods).

The "Treatment" phase is generally a more painful endurance exercise, such as sleeping on a bed of small rods, spinning quickly around in a chair, or "jumping" a heavy rope. Some Treatments are simply endurance tests with no set bounds, while other Treatments are broken into a number of rounds with increasingly more difficult goals to achieve. In the latter case, if a player cannot finish a round, they are sometimes given the opportunity to do a penalty round to catch up, though further exhausting that player. At any time during the Treatment, a player may hit the red button to quit the Treatment, at which point they no longer have to participate; they also may be forced to press the red button should they break any of the rules of the Treatment (in particular, if a contestant vomits during a Treatment where food items are being consumed, Val declares that "your body will have quit for you"). However, the first player to hit the red button during the treatment will be required to leave the show. (There was one instance in season two when Val decided prior to one particular Treatment that no one would be excluded, although no mention was made of this until after the Treatment was over.) The other players are not told when a player has left the Treatment, and generally the Treatment continues from the end of one show into the start of the next with the remaining players attempting to outlast the others. After a given amount of time or a number of rounds, Val will inform the remaining players the Treatment is over, allowing them to continue in the game. Shortly thereafter, Val will notify the remaining contestants as to which guest has been eliminated.]]

You have 1 hour for this challenge.

This Test is ON.

Presses Green Button

1 letter: 24
2 letter: 72
3 letter: 81
4 letter: 50
5 letter: 17
6 letter: 25
7 letter: 11
8 letter: 2
9 letter: 19
10 letter: 3

Your guess is RECORDED

Keep watch over your Pod for when I post the results.

Good morning-evening-afternoon Number 13

I can now reveal the results of the Counters Test.

All 11 remaining Solitarians participated in the Test with just over half scoring under 100 points and all making a guess within the 1 hour time limit.

After counting through twice, the correct answer was:

# of letters in words - # of those words in text

1 - 24
2 - 81
3 - 97
4 - 85
5 - 64
6 - 55
7 - 37
8 - 23
9 - 29
10 - 17
11 - 3
12 - 3

Your score was 1305 points.

I will start with the worst performer.  In this Test, all players participated but TWO received a score of a DISQUALIFICATION for posting their guess BEFORE pressing the green button.

The Solitarians who performed the worst in this Test and will BOTH receive a penalty in the upcoming Treatment will be
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Numbers 8 and 10

Of those who performed the best, 3 players reached a score under 50.  Of those 3, the winner had the lowest score of 15.  Thus, that Solitarian will earn safety from the Treatment.

The winner of this Test and thus earning safety from my next Treatment and guaranteed a spot in the next cycle of my experiment is
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Number 2.

As you can see, you have not won this Test and will be forced to compete in my next Treatment.  Your next Treatment will be posted in a few minutes.

Good luck.

Good morning-evening-afternoon.

Welcome to your next Treatment, Piece it Together.

In this Treatment you must go to this link:

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=0b0051158c69

and solve this 100 piece jigsaw puzzle.

Your goal is to solve this puzzle in the fastest time possible.  When you are satisfied with your time, you must take a SCREENSHOT of the finished puzzle with your time AND A WINDOW OPENED TO YOUR LOGGED IN TENGAGED PROFILE.  An example of this type of screenshot will be in the group image's section of your Pod.

You will post anywhere in the group

PRESSES GREEN BUTTON

You will then either post a link to the screenshot image or directly post the image in the group image's section of your Pod.

If you post the image without pressing the green button you will earn a 3 minute penalty added to your time.

For those who earned a penalty in the last Test for coming in Last Place, you will have 3 minutes added to your final time.

The Solitarian who has the longest finish time for this Puzzle will be forced to leave Solitary and be eliminated.

You will have until 12:59 am est TONIGHT (16 hours and 29 minutes from now) to finish this Treatment.

If you do not send a submission that counts as an AUTO LAST PLACE.  If multiple people do not finish then they will be given an extension but one of those will be guaranteed to be eliminated.

Good luck.

presses green button

Your score has been RECORDED.

Keep watch over your Pod for when I post the results.

I miscounted in the Test but the change did not affect the placement as the winner, Number 2, won with a score of 8 points, not 15.