Pool Request

Reproduce the Bedazzling Devil's pool playing skill

… from the Bedazzled movie and prove professional pool player Tony Robles wrong.

Prize

Fulfillment of up to eight wishes. The prize starts with one wish and one more wish is added every sixty six days until the challenge is closed or the cap of seven wishes is reached. One extra bonus wish is reserved for a solution meeting an additional requirement.

Wishmaster

Rebelleon LLC

Terms

Setup

  1. The contender must pot with a single shot fourteen out of the sixteen balls initially found on the pool table and be able to do so consistently in N out of N attempts in a row, where N is the current value of the prize (in wishes).

  2. The table, balls and cue used in the solution must be usable for playing regular pool games. A seasoned pool player may bemoan the equipment’s poor quality but shouldn’t point out any obvious defects/anomalies.

  3. The initial placement of the balls must meet the following criteria:

    • At most 4 balls may have another ball within distance of D, where D is the diameter of a pool ball.

    • At most 2 balls may be within D distance from a pocket.

    • At most 4 balls may be within D distance from a cushion.

    • For any pair of balls, at most one more ball can occur on the same line, i.e. the imaginary straight line passing through the centers of the said two balls may pierce no more than one other ball.

    This is needed to prevent “easy” solutions like these ones.

  4. Once placed, the balls must stay static until the shot. The table must stay static all the time (eliminating the possibility of the balls being potted as a result of an earthquake coinciding with the shot). After the shot, the balls must behave (as seen and judged by an average pool player) within the intuitive laws of ball dynamics learned through playing experience. For example, a ball may not start moving before being hit by another ball. At most one ball is allowed to move in a curved trajectory.

  5. The duration of setting up for a shot must be under 666 seconds. After the shot the balls must come to a halt in under 1/666 hours.

Claiming the prize

  1. The contender must send a link to the unedited video with the demonstration of the solution whereupon the same solution will have to be reproduced in the presence of Fumpetition.org’s representatives in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.

Bonus

  1. The prize is extended with one bonus wish if the solution also works for an initial placement of the balls meeting all above criteria but set up by the Fumpetition.org representative.

  2. If the contender chooses to claim the bonus, they are given N attempts, where N is the current value of the main prize (in wishes). The bonus wish is granted if the contender’s solution succeeds in at least half of the attempts. If the solution fails all trials, the contender doesn’t receive the bonus and is also deprived of one wish from the main prize (as a fine for the frivolous claim of the bonus).

  3. Once the balls are all placed, the shot must be performed before the 666th second runs out.

Wishes

  1. Granted wishes must be made publicly one at a time via the challenge discussion page.

  2. Wishes are not transferrable.

  3. Each wish must be made/claimed no later than within 666,666 seconds from the fulfillment of the previous one (or, in the case of the first wish, after the winning solution is acknowledged). If not made on time, the wish disappears.

  4. Once the wish is made the winner cannot change/adjust it. However, the wishmaster may negotiate the wish with the winner by proposing altered formulations of the wish, in which case the winner can either approve or reject the proposal.

  5. The wishmaster of the fumpetition must fulfill the last approved version of the wish within 666 hours of the original claim. The wishmaster will publicly inform about the fulfillment of the wish whereupon the winner may acknowledge or dispute that claim. A wish is considered fulfilled either upon the winner’s explicit acknowledgment or if it is not disputed within 6,666 minutes of the announcement of fulfillment.

  6. Fulfillment of any wish can be denied without any explanation, in which case the wishmaster has to pay a ransom in the amount of ÖŹ66,666 (per wish) no later than the date by which the wish had to be fulfilled. The ransom will be paid in AMD via a bank transfer less any taxes (if applicable). Similarly, ransom of the same size must be paid for wishes that are not fulfilled on time; in this case the ransom must be paid no later than 666,666 seconds after the wishmaster’s failure to timely fulfill the wish becomes an established fact. If the winner doesn’t provide valid bank account details for timely payment of the ransom, the wishmaster will instead transfer it to a charity of his own choice, thus clearing himself of any obligations related to the respective wish.

Intellectual Property

  1. The contenders (including the winner) preserve all rights to all and any inventions and/or content created while competing for the prize.

Additional advice

  1. Contenders are encouraged to share (via their own social media channels and/or on the chat page of this challenge) any (including the craziest) ideas on how this task could have been achieved in theory.

  2. Contenders are encouraged to document their work on the solution and share it online.