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Solitaire Dreams - Creating a winnable solitaire starting hand

It's me. Cave Johnson. It's May 21st. You are working at Aperture Science, finest company on Earth, and tomorrow we're releasing Version 3.0 of our flagship windowing system (or WindowS): CavOS. ...
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Non-transitive dice game

Those of you who like Numberphile would be familiar with Dr. James Grime, who described a non-transitive dice game on his channel. The game consists of three 6-faced dice: Die 1: 3,3,3,3,3,6 Die 2: ...
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Score a game of Bowling

Your task is to sum up and output one player's score in a game of 10-pin bowling after up to 21 rolls. The rolls are represented as space separated integers on a single line of input. Each integer ...
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Score a game of Yahtzee

For each of the 13 rows of a Yahtzee scoresheet you are given (from stdin) a space separated list of 5 numbers (dice). Your task is to calculate the score for each line and output the Grand Total of ...
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Recreate the classic snake Game

The challenge is to create the classic Snake game using as few bytes as possible. Here are the requirements: The game must be implemented in a typical 2-dimensional layout. The snake should be able ...
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Build a Simple Roguelike

This challenge is based on one proposed on the usenet group rec.games.roguelike.development a few years ago. I can't find the original newsgroup post, but you can have a look a the Github repo of ...
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3answers
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Score a game of Go

Scoring a Go game is a task that is not all too easy. In the past there have been several debates about how to design rules to cover all the strange corner cases that may occur. Luckily, in this task ...
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9answers
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Name the poker hand

Name the poker hand Given five cards, output the name of the poker hand, which will be one of: High card One pair Two pair Three of a kind Straight Flush Full house Four of a kind Straight flush ...
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Play a perfect game of Mu Torere

Background Mu Torere is a game that is one of only two known to be played by the Maori people of New Zealand before European influence. This makes it a very unique game in that it has an "objective ...
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Score a Cribbage Hand

This challenge is to score a Cribbage hand. If you don't play Cribbage, you've got some learning to do. We play with a standard poker deck, and a hand consists of four cards plus the "up card". ...
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4answers
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Recreate a 'Snake' game in a console/terminal

Games are fun this codegolf here was so fun I had to make a version for other classic games similar in complexity. Shortest Way of creating a basic Space Invaders Game in Python This time, however, ...
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Unique Sudoku Finder

Challenge: Given a Sudoku board on standard input, find the minimum number of numbers added to make the board unique. Specifics/Rules: The input is formatted as follows (all whitespace is ...
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Bingo card generator

A Bingo card is five columns of five squares each, with the middle square designated "FREE". Numbers cannot duplicate. The five columns are populated with the following range of numbers: B:1-15 ...
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Hangman wordgame golf

Inspired by reddit. Write a program which plays Hangman. The program chooses a random word from a list of N words, where N > 2. The word list can be provided to the program in any way you choose. ...
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10answers
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Guess the number.

Description Create a fully working "Guess the number" game. The game is played by two players as follows: player one chooses a number (A) between 1 and N player two tries to guess A choosing a ...
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Implement a Brute Force Sudoku Solver

Implement the shortest Sudoku solver using guessing. Since I have received a few request I have added this as an alternative question for those wishing to implement a brute force sudoku solver. ...
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Implement a Non-Guessing Sudoku Solver

Implement the shortest Sudoku solver. Sudoku Puzzle: | 1 2 3 | 4 5 6 | 7 8 9 -+----------------------- A| 3 | 1 | B| 6 | | 5 C| 5 | | 9 8 3 -+----------------------- ...