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• How to Play: An overview of how to play EyeWire.
• Tutorials: These videos will help you through the tutorial if you'd like further assistance.
• Player Roles: EyeWire players can advance in rankings and obtain special roles as they play.
• Competitions: Each week, there are special competitions where players can get additional points.
• The Eyewire Lexicon: Some terms used in the game that may be unfamiliar.

Some Challenges

• Overcoming Obstacles: Sometimes there are tricky cells within the EyeWire dataset that must be dealt with.
• Mergers: What are mergers and what do they look like?
• Encountered in the Dataset: Some interesting artifacts in the dataset.

How it Works

• F-Scores and Accuracy: How do we compute each player's accuracy score?
• The Consensus: How do we crowdsource reconstructions and determine what is the most accurate reconstruction?

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