Questions tagged [game]
This challenge is generally based upon, related to, or simulates a game or some portion of one.
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Win a KQ vs K endgame
Win a K vs KQ endgame
Summary
The goal of this challenge is to create a program or function which will win a Chess game with a King and Queen against a lone King. The user will specify three squares, ...
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Validating a Battleship board
Do you know the game Battleship? Well, I want to play with my little brother, but before we can begin we need to set up our ships on the board. This is your input.
Now, we need to check that the ships ...
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Which side should I serve on?
Introduction
In Tennis, the server alternates serving on the left side or the right side of the court every point, starting on the right. It is possible to figure out which side to serve on for that ...
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Is this a robbery?
Backstory
You own a tiny jewellery shop in the suburbs of the city. The suburbs are too much overpopulated, so your shop has a thickness of only one character to fit in the busy streets.
Recently, ...
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Are These Scores Possible?
Background
In the sport of Table Tennis (aka Ping-Pong or Whiff Whaff), two opponents play a sequence of rounds, where each round consists of players hitting a ball back and forth until one player (...
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Baba is golf, flag is win
If you haven't played the game Baba is You, I think you really should. Whether you’ve played it or not, have a go at implementing it as a code golf.
The idea behind this challenge is to have a bit ...
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Implement Entombed's lookup table
Background
Entombed is an Atari 2600 game released in 1982, with the goal of navigating through a continuous mirrored maze as it scrolls upwards. In recent times, the game has been subject to research ...
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Chinese checkers adjacent squares [closed]
Challenge
You have a Chinese Checkers board looking like this:
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Solve a Picross Row
Introduction
A picross, also known as a nonogram, is a logic puzzle in which the player is given an initially blank grid and must shade in particular boxes on the grid to reveal an image. Numbers are ...
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Russian Roulette, varying chances [duplicate]
Russian roulette
It's Russian roulette! The rules are simple. Shoot a revolver with n slots for bullets and one round inside at your head and you might not die!
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Code golfing my guess the number game with feedback in NS-HUBASIC - Can it be code golfed any further?
The player has to keep guessing a number from 1 to 10 until they guess the correct number to win the game. If they make an incorrect guess, they're told if their guess was too low or too high.
Each ...
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The shortest way of getting rid of these numbers
This is a simple game of getting rid of those damn numbers.
You start with the numbers from 1 to 19, written in a grid of 9 by 3:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1
5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9
You may ...
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Game of Game of Life
Game of Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life is a 0-player game. But that's okay! We can make it a multi-player game.
This game is played on the smallest square grid that will accommodate a 6x6 ...
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Count the Shantens
Introduction to Mahjong tiles
Mahjong (麻雀) is a board game that originates from China. Mahjong tiles used in this challenge are in Unicode points U+1F000 – U+1F021:
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On the Subject of Memory
This challenge is from a game called Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes.
Memory is a fragile thing but so is everything else when a bomb goes off, so pay attention! – from the manual
The Objective
A ...
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Play Big 2 by yourself, as fast as you can
Introduction
Big 2 is a card game popular in East Asia and South East Asia, in which 4 players are dealt 13 cards each (ie, an equal division of a standard deck without jokers). The goal is to empty ...
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Morpion solitaire
Morpion solitaire
This is a game that I remember having learnt from my grandparents in my childhood. Initially I didn't know the name. G B has found it to be Join Five (or less ambiguously - Morpion ...
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An “Iniative” game mechanic [closed]
This challenge is inspired by turn based videogames like "Heroes of Might and Magic"
Implement this game mechanic:
There is some units(Imps, Swordsmans etc...) in our game
Every unit have an integer ...
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Cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock
When playing Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, your robot reflexes let you see your opponent's throw before they make it. You just need to choose a throw that beats theirs, in as few bytes as possible ...
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List where pinballs would exit a grid of bumpers from different entrance points
Inspired by this lumosity mini game, Pinball Recall
We start with a rectangular grid (viewed from above) with several bumpers as follows. Entrances/exits are numbered counter-clockwise starting from ...
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Determine the Winner of a Game of Australian Football
In Australian Football, goals are worth 6 points and behinds are worth 1 point. Scores may include the number of goals and behinds, as well as the total score. Given the number of goals and behinds ...
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The Lucky House
There's a minigame in Super Mario 3D World known as the Lucky House. It consists of a slot machine with 4 blocks.
Each block may be one of 5 different icons (Flower, Leaf, Bell, Cherry or Boomerang) ...
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Generate a random point outside a given rectangle within a map
Introduction
Given this visualization of a playing field:
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Compute my Sacred Geometry [closed]
In the tabletop RPG named Pathfinder, there is a feat that characters can take called Sacred Geometry, which allows a character who has it to buff their spells in exchange for doing some math: to use ...
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Letter Boxed, part 2: this time, solve it
This challenge is a sequel to Letter Boxed Validator.
The New York Times has a daily online game called Letter Boxed (the link is behind a paywall; the game is also described here), presented on a ...
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Who can escape the Nonary Game?
The Nonary Game is a fictional game played in the video game trilogy of the same name. Your goal is to find how many players (at best) can escape a given game, in as few bytes of code as possible.
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Who won a Game of Bar Dice?
Challenge
Bar Dice is a simple game played in a Bar with Dice (hence the name). You roll 5 six-sided dice and attempt to make the best hand.
Scoring is based on amassing the largest number of ...
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Letter Boxed validator
The New York Times has a daily online game called Letter Boxed (the link is behind a paywall; the game is also described here), presented on a square as follows:
You are given 4 groups of 3 letters (...
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Adventurers in the Ruins
Test Driver • Challenge Discussion • Submit Adventurer
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Several rival adventurers are raiding the ruins for treasure, but they can only carry so much at a time and have their ...
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Playing Pickomino
In the game Pickomino, there are several tiles lying in the middle of the table, each with a different positive integer on them. Each turn, the players roll dices in a certain way and get a score, ...
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Dungeon Crawler
Input
A binary matrix \$M\$ representing the walls of a dungeon.
The position \$(x,y)\$ of the player within the dungeon.
The direction \$d\$ that the player is currently facing (0 = North, 1 = East, ...
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A game of dice, but avoid number 6
Tournament over!
The tournament is now over! The final simulation was run during the night, a total of \$3*10^8\$ games. The winner is Christian Sievers with his bot OptFor2X. Christian Sievers also ...
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Magic: The Gathering, Paying for Spells
For more MtG-goodness: Magic: The Gathering Combat with Abilities
Premise:
In Magic: the Gathering, you cast spells by paying their mana cost by tapping lands for the required amount. These lands ...
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Accordion Solitaire: Which First Moves Can I Make?
Introduction:
Unfortunately an Accordion Solitaire Solver challenge already exists (Solve a game of Accordion), so instead this easier related challenge.
Let's start by explaining how Accordion ...
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Amidakuji (阿弥陀籤) simplification
If you have ever had any exposure to Japanese or East Asian culture you will have surely encountered the Amidakuji game:
As Wikipedia explains, it is a type of lottery drawn on paper and used to ...
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Prisoner's Dilemma with access to opponent
In this challenge, you will write a bot that play's the prisoner's dilemma. Here's the catch: you will not have access to the history of previous games. Instead, you will have access to the opponent ...
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Mid-Autumn Festival gambling game
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn festival, and in the spirit of that holiday, I will introduce a gambling game that we (people from Xiamen) play during the holiday!
Rules
The game is played with six 6-sided ...
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Magic: The Gathering Combat with Abilities
Related
Goal:
Given two creatures with optional combat abilities, return unique but consistent values that represent which creatures died, if any.
Input:
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Minecraft Language Files Updater
In 1.13, Minecraft language files were switched from being a simple multi-line key=value format to JSON.
Challenge
Write a program converting from the original format returning a JSON string. Input ...
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Watch the bookie win
When you roll a die, you have a 6:1 chance of any given option.
There's a bookmaker taking bets on die rolls. He owns £20 at the start of the game.
The bookmaker offers odds of 4:1, but gamblers ...
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Let's practice the scoring rules of 421!
421 is a rather popular dice game in France and some other European countries. It is mostly played in bars and pubs to determine who's going to buy the next round of drinks. The full game is usually ...
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Bot: Outsnake the game!
So, I wrote a simple Javascript game (as yet unnamed) and naturally I wanted to write an API so I could write a bot to play it for me, and naturally I wanted to let the PPCG community have a go for ...
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Score a single dart
Introduction
Write a program or function that, given the coordinates of where a dart lands on a dartboard, return the score of that dart. Dart coordinates are given as two integers, ...
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Let's play Mölkky!
Mölkky
Mölkky is a Finnish throwing game. The players use a wooden pin (also called "mölkky") to try to knock over wooden pins of almost similar dimensions with the throwing pin, marked with ...
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Noisy Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
In this challenge, you will play the noisy iterated prisoner's dilemma.
The Prisoner's dilemma is a scenario in game theory where there are two players, each with two options: cooperate, or defect. ...
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Will you be my Weaver?
I've been recently playing through 'The Weaver' and I think it presents an interesting challenge for code-golf.
Premise:
The Weaver is a game wherein you are given a number of ribbons coming from 2 ...
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Scrabble scorer
Challenge:
Take a string of upper or lower case letters as input (optional), and calculate the score that string would get in a game of Scrabble in English.
Rules:
The score of each letter is as ...
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Dollar Bill Auction
This is a KOTH challenge for the dollar bill auction game in game theory. In it, a dollar is being sold to the highest bidder. Bids go up in increments of 5¢, and the loser also pays their bid. The ...
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Ice Golf Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to write a program or function that returns the least amount of strikes needed to complete a given course.
Input
The layout of the course can be passed in any suitable ...
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Alice and Bob have a fight
Alice (A) and Bob (B) decided to have a battle.
Each combatant has 10 health.
They take turns to roll a 6 sided die for damage.
That damage is removed from their opponent's health.
In the end either ...
