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  1. Your sourcecode must not contain any of the characters it outputs (case sensitive).
  2. Your program must not output more than 500 characters/bytes. 1 byte = 1 char. Newline counts as 1 character.
  3. Your program should not take any input. (from user, filename, network or anything).
  4. Your program must output words/phrases worth a total of minimum 700 points according to the following score table (case sensitive):

Score table:

me                        - 2   points
ore                       - 3   points
freq                      - 5   points
pager                     - 7   points
mentor                    - 11  points
triumph                   - 13  points
equipage                  - 17  points
equipment                 - 19  points
equivalent                - 23  points
equilibrium               - 29  points
unubiquitous              - 31  points
questionnaire             - 37  points
Mutüal 3xcLUs1ve_Equino>< - 400 points
  • 4.1 Each word can be repeated but lose 1 point for each repetition (with exception for the last phrase worth 400 points, you must not repeat that in the output). For example:

four of equilibrium (in any place) in the output = 29+28+27+26 points.

  • 4.2 Letters in the output can be used in more than one word, for example:

equipager = equipage and pager = 17+7 points.

This is code-golf, shortest sourcecode in bytes wins! Good luck, have fun!

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Can my program contain the command "print" for example? because the letter 'i' appears in the source code and therefore most of the letters cannot be printed. \$\endgroup\$
    – Gari BN
    Jan 19, 2014 at 11:31
  • \$\begingroup\$ If your program contain the command print you cannot output any p, r, i, n or t and only get points for the word: me and I doubt you can reach 700 points using only that word ;). I foresee sourcecodes with most code in upper-case ;) \$\endgroup\$
    – Peter Wirdemo
    Jan 19, 2014 at 11:37
  • \$\begingroup\$ Is the fourth repetition of "me" worth zero points, or -1 point? \$\endgroup\$
    – John Dvorak
    Jan 19, 2014 at 11:41
  • \$\begingroup\$ The fourth is worth zero points. No penalties (except for the 400 points phrase.) \$\endgroup\$
    – Peter Wirdemo
    Jan 19, 2014 at 11:42
  • \$\begingroup\$ Who wins? The shortest sourcecode or the best score? \$\endgroup\$
    – friol
    Jan 19, 2014 at 13:06

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Golfscript, 24 characters

"QUESTIONNAIRE"{32+}%36*

Way too easy.

36 repetitions of "questionnaire" = 36*13 characters = 468 characters.

36 repetitions of "questionnaire" = 37+36+...1 point = (37+1)(37)/2 points = 703 points.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Oh, darn! Thought I did the math correct, invalidating an option like this.. should have set it to 800 points instead ;) good work! +1 \$\endgroup\$
    – Peter Wirdemo
    Jan 19, 2014 at 12:01
  • \$\begingroup\$ Then I would output some two words multiple times instead :-) Unfortunately, "equipager" is the only good overlap, and its repetition is worth way too few points. \$\endgroup\$
    – John Dvorak
    Jan 19, 2014 at 12:01
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yes, you are correct. I tried to weight the challenge so that the 400 points phrase actually should have been an option, but did the math regarding output-limit and score points wrong :( \$\endgroup\$
    – Peter Wirdemo
    Jan 19, 2014 at 12:21
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JavaScript, 391 chars

Could be golfed further. Port of Jan Dvorak's answer; alerts "questionnaire" 36 times (although, hardcoded instead of via a loop). T contains the string "true", F the string "false" and O the string "[object Object]". From these (and (1/0)+[] = "Infinity"), R = "return" and C = "constructor" are constructed. From this, we create a function $ that does alert("QUESTIONNAIRE"["toLowerCase"]()) and invoke it 36 times.

T=!![]+[]
F=![]+[]
O={}+[]
R=T[1]+T[3]+T[0]+T[2]+T[1]+(0[[]]+[])[1]
C=O[5]+O[1]+(0[[]]+[])[1]+F[3]+T[0]+T[1]+T[2]+O[5]+T[0]+O[1]+T[1]
$=0[C][C](_[F[1]+F[2]+T[3]+T[1]+T[0]]+'("QUESTIONNAIRE"[T[0]+O[1]+"L"+O[1]+"w"+T[3]+T[1]+"C"+F[1]+F[3]+F[4]]())')
$();$();$();$();$();$()
$();$();$();$();$();$()
$();$();$();$();$();$()
$();$();$();$();$();$()
$();$();$();$();$();$()
$();$();$();$();$();$()
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Neat! good job. \$\endgroup\$
    – xem
    Jan 19, 2014 at 17:26
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Perl 6 (33 chars)

EVAL "SAY 'QUESTIONNAIRE'x 35".lc

13 chars * 35 repetitions = 455 chars total output
+ == 700 points; (3..37).elems = 35 repetitions.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ How come EVAL works? Is it defined both in uppercase and lowercase (if so, why?!) or are function names case-insensitive in Perl 6? \$\endgroup\$
    – FireFly
    Jan 19, 2014 at 20:57
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    \$\begingroup\$ @FireFly eval has been deprecated for EVAL not so long ago, to make it stand out you're doing special stuff I guess. Sorta like BEGIN, TOP, ... The change just happens to suit me here :) \$\endgroup\$
    – Ayiko
    Jan 20, 2014 at 20:47
  • \$\begingroup\$ I guess that makes sense, it just seemed kinda weird. I guess you got lucky. :P \$\endgroup\$
    – FireFly
    Jan 20, 2014 at 20:50
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JavaScript (88342)

http://pastebin.com/6UNTNXeT

alerts Mutüal 3xcLUs1ve_Equino>< once + unubiquitous 12 times

Score: 706

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  • \$\begingroup\$ You didn't even make an attempt at golfing. None of $_=; are present in your output, so why not use them in the code? \$\endgroup\$
    – John Dvorak
    Jan 19, 2014 at 12:05
  • \$\begingroup\$ Because JSfuck outputs only those 6 characters. Also, I don't think we can do better with JavaScript, because to output we can use alert(), console.log(), document.write() or element.innerHTML, and these functions contain letters that are too present in the required words. \$\endgroup\$
    – xem
    Jan 19, 2014 at 15:40
  • \$\begingroup\$ alert == this["alert"] == Function("return this")["alert"] == ""["constructor"]["constructor"]("return this")["alert"], and the strings could be encoded similarly to how JSfuck works. I'll post a submission to prove you wrong. :-) \$\endgroup\$
    – FireFly
    Jan 19, 2014 at 16:40
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C64 BASIC, 64 PETSCII chars

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Should output 13 times the string "questionnaireunubiquitousequilibrium", with a score of:

equilibrium = 29+28+27+26+25+24+23+22+21+20+19+18+17=299
unubiquitous = 31+30+29+28+27+26+25+24+23+22+21+20+19=325
questionnaire = 37+36+35+34+33+32+31+30+29+28+27+26+25=403

1027.

(output is 481 chars long)

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