A clarification of what the contest is, in the form of a FAQ. -- Q: Is this a programming competition? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this a sneaky way to get people to pay attention to Perl 6, Rakudo, or working code? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this a sneaky way to get people to open up their old books about algorithms? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this a sneaky way to get people to submit more Rakudo bug reports? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this an elaborate way to buy someone books? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this your way of selecting some person to "pay it forward" to? Did someone once buy you books from your Amazon wishlist? A: Yes. Yes. -- Q: Are you answering in the affirmative to all these questions because you truly mean it? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this a silly PR experiment? A: Yes. -- Q: But you *are* going to hand out a prize of 100 € in Amazon books, right? A: Yes. -- Q: Is this a sneaky way to give 'masak' more name recognition? A: Yes. Wait, no! Nonono. Actually, I'd call the whole thing "Perl 6 Challenge" if there wasn't already something called weekly challenges, and I didn't want people to get mixed up. So I went for "Perl 6 Coding Contest" instead, and I figured I might as well namespace it with my name in case someone else ever wants to hold some other coding contest. Hence "masak's Perl 6 Coding Contest".