Scoring model

[dotnich]

Somewhat confused at the points I get from solving different puzzles. Does the number of people explicitly marked "Innocent" change the score you get, if the times are otherwise the same?

[mellav1]

I believe it has to do with the difficulty level of the puzzle, not with whether you mark off all the innocents.

[admin]

Correct - and we will soon be updating the scoring algorithm to more accurately reflect real-world solving averages (right now it's just our system's "best guess" determining how difficult a particular puzzle is). Luckily the site has been popular enough that we're getting tons of real-world solving data really quickly - usually it takes up to a year before we can update the scoring algorithm off actual solve data.