The RULES

THE RULES (please read them carefully!):

1) Register to play. Send an email to: whudisit@photosapience.com requesting to be added and I'll add you to the official list of players. Please also state:

- your desired display name (real or fictional)
- your location (real or fictional)

Joining after opening week is allowed, but signing up early maximizes your chances of scoring points.

2) Visit this site regularly for 8 weeks. Each week a new image will be posted and results from the previous week discussed. The game will start in early January, and I'll send out an email to all registered players when the game is set to begin. I'd smash a champagne bottle against a ship, but that would be inappropriate and I don't have any champagne nor do I have a ship.

3) Submit your guess(es) via email. Only ONE email per image (per week) is allowed. This is where you have important options, so please read carefully... depending on how confident you are about your guess and how many points you'd like to play for, you may submit 1, 2, or 3 guesses in your single weekly email.

If you submit just 1 guess, and are correct, you score 3points.
If you submit 2 guesses and one is correct, you score 2points.
If you submit 3 guesses and one is correct, you score 1point.
If you have no idea what the photo is, send me an outlandish guess anyhow (ie. please entertain me).

Simple enough!

4) Deadlines are not flexible! You must submit your guesses before the stated deadline for each photo. If you're in a different time zone, I'll leave it up to you to know the conversion from Toronto, Canada time (which is EST or GMT-5h).

5) On the rare occassion, guesses are very close but not exactly correct. Final judgement lies with me and our sponsors (me and me). Avoid being upset by a decision going against you by being SPECIFIC in your guesses. For example, saying "food" for a strawberry will not score you any points. In addition, saying "organically grown, modern garden variety Fragaria ananassa, 3 days after harvest" will not score you extra points.

5) Please use the comments function for anything you want (trash talk, discussing the weather, celebrity gossip, whatever yanks your crank) but PLEASE DO NOT drop hints or make suggestions about the photo of the week (that would just spoil the fun!).

6) Have fun!