Results of "Sherlock Holmes and Mahjong" contest
Dear mahjong lovers, MahjongSoft and The Sherlock Holmes Society of Italy (Uno Studio In Holmes) are pleased to announce the finish of the 4th season of “Sherlock Holmes and Mahjong” mystery solving contest.
Winners and prizes
- 1st place — Naoki Nishioka, Japan — receives a book "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Viaggio in Italia - Italian Journey" (
/
) and the latest issue of Sherlockian fanzine "The Strand Magazine" (/). - 2nd place — Cyrille Rak, France — receives the latest issue of Sherlockian fanzine "The Strand Magazine" (/).
- 3rd place — Eric Le Morvan, France — receives the latest issue of Sherlockian fanzine "The Strand Magazine" (/).
- Best Russian-speaking contestant — Denis Lugannikov, Russia — receives a book “Sherlock Holmes and Mahjong” (
) signed by authour.
Prizes are generously provided by The Sherlock Holmes Society of Italy (Uno Studio In Holmes) and Vitaly Novikov.
Contest
For the last 8 weeks 41 contestants from 10 countries have sent their solutions. Not everything went smoothly, some mysteries looked like easy ones the other ones required more and more time to solve. 10 contestants received tied maximum score, hence, to break ties in top positions, so-called "timestamp" procedure has been applied. Any cell in "timestamp matrix" shows how many "complete and correct" solutions a "horizontal" contestant has sent EARLIER with respect to a "vertical" contestant. Numbers in all cell are summed up for every tied contestant, the higher that sum, the higher place of the contestant.
Detailed results
Resulting table contains: rank, contestant name, country, number of "Sherlock points" (
), total and by mystery.
Updated: 16.07.2021 14:00 CET
Contestants with the maximum score
Timestamp matrix
Other contestants
