Linked Questions
481 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in 05AB1E
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Cat goes "Meow"
cat goes "Meow"
We are all familiar with the concept of a cat program. The user types something in, it is echoed back to the ...
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Print my clock's alarm sound
Write the shortest program that prints the sound my alarm clock makes, and stops after an inputted number of beeps.
For reference, here is the sound my alarm makes:
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Extendify the ASCII Sun
Write a program that takes in (via STDIN/command line) a non-negative integer N.
When N is 0, your program should print O (that's capital Oh, not zero).
When N is 1,...
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You're on a 8 day streak!
Duolingo, the language learning app, has a lot of things going for it, but there is one major issue that drives me crazy. It tells me how many days in a row I've used the app with a message like You'...
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Encode the date in Christmas Eve format
The day this post was published was Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will be Christmas. Yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve. In two days it will be
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List all possible titles for the Anno games
In the Anno video game series there are 6 games with a 7th one announced for early 2019. Their titles always feature a year in a specific pattern:
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Determine the depth of an array
A simple challenge for your Monday evening (well, or Tuesday morning in the other half of the world...)
You're given as input a nested, potentially ragged array of positive integers:
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Write a program that downloads itself
Write a program that connects to this site, downloads the very answer in which it is posted, extracts its own source code and prints it out. The output must be identical to the source code. Shortest ...
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Esolang-Comment-Template-Generator
Lots of people on this site use esoteric languages, and since these languages are unusual and hard to understand, they will frequently write an explanation in a certain format. For example, if the ...
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A Programming Puzzle of Mode Golf
Your task is to print the text Good morning, Green orb!, with every character repeated in place as many times as the most frequent byte in your source (the mode). ...
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Write a "Hello" interpreter
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Hello is a language "written" by Anne Veling, which errors if the program does not contain only h, and will print ...
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Russian Roulette
Write a program which plays Russian Roulette!
If the program is started,
there should be a 5 in 6 chance of it ending normally after printing "I survived!"
there should be a 1 in 6 chance of the ...
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Generate Monday Numbers
Monday numbers, as defined by Gamow in this question over on Puzzling, are positive integers N with the following three properties:
The decimal representation of N does not contain the digit 0
The ...
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DON'T... do NOT lowercase UPPERCASE this!
Write a program that outputs its input unchanged. However:
If all uppercase characters are removed from the program, it lowercases all uppercase letters.
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Output the hours at 90 degrees
Today while playing with my kids I noticed that an apparently simple toy in the park hid a challenge.
The wheel has a triangle that points to a number, but also has three circles that point to the ...
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