Prize of the Beheaded Man
Prize of the Beheaded Man |
The highest scorer on the supervised examination The Mental Inventor before 21 December 2028 (Greenwich Mean Time) will be awarded the Prize of the Beheaded Man and mentioned as such on the awards page. Do notice that any day starts at midnight, so "before 21 December" implies that the examination should be taken no later than on 20 December before midnight to be included in the contest. The Prize consists of a P.D.F. certificate and mention on said web page.
The Mental Inventor will remain in use after the contest has ended, correct answers will not be published, there can be no correspondence about your score or the contents of the examination, and the scorer alone determines the winner by simply counting the number of correct answers for each participant.
In case of a tie, the chronologically first top scorer will receive the Prize. Drawing a winner at random would be unethical in such a case. Giving the advantage to the chronologically first top scorer serves to prevent candidates from postponing taking the test until shortly before the deadline, which is undesirable since the purpose of the contest is to gather data for norming and validation.