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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 (Image Source) 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 [closed]

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-...
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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 numbers ...
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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 ...
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Get Two from One

As we saw in this question complex logical statements can be expressed in terms of the simple connectives of generalized Minesweeper. However Generalized minesweeper still has redundancies. In order ...
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How many draws are there in Quarto?

Introduction This challenge is similar to Project Euler problems. I came up with it because I was playing a deceivingly simple board game and couldn't come up with an efficient solution to answer a ...
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Solve Hitori Puzzles

Introduction Write a solver for the Hitori puzzles using least bytes. Challenge Your task is write a solver for the Hitori (ひとり, the word for "alone" in Japanese; the meaning of the game name is "...
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Hexcellent Minesweeping

Hexcells is a game based off of Minesweeper played on hexagons. (Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with Hexcells. In fact I don't really like the game.) Most of Hexcells rules can be pretty ...
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Help my son find his letters

Background Based on a game my four-year-old got from his rabbi. The "goal" is to "find" the letters in a given order, e.g. aecdb. You are given a stack of letter ...
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Draw me a domino

Challenge Given two digits 0-9 as input, output a domino (from the double-nine domino set) with these number of pips (dots) on the two faces. The ten possible faces look like this (separated by pipes)...
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Let's Play Mafia!

Mafia (also known as Werewolf) is a party game that plays roughly like this: The game begins on day 0. After every day n comes a night ...
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Play a game of Dice Cricket

Dice Cricket is a game I was introduced to as a child and have used as a way to pass time for years since. I couldn't find a Wikipedia page so I'll explain the rules below. Dice Cricket Rules ...
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Google's doodle on kids coding: shortest program solving all the levels

Today's Google doodle is about Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding: The goal is program the path of a little bunny so that it can eat all the carrots. There are 4 types of blocks (see pictures below): ...
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Who will win a Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock game?

There are several questions regarding this game, even a king-of-the-hill contest here. But I think all those challenges and contests need a way to automatically determine the winner of a game. So: ...
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Minecraft Inventory Management

Minecraft inventory management is hard. You have 17 diamonds, but you need 7 to craft an enchantment table, a pickaxe, and a sword. Do you pick them up and right click 7 times? Or do you right click ...
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First-price sealed-bid auction

Final Result The competition is over. Congratulations to hard_coded! Some interesting facts: In 31600 out of 40920 auctions (77.2%), the winner of the first ...
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Draw 'Til You Drop

In Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (as well as most other editions), there exists a magic item called the Deck of Many Things. It is an incredibly powerful item, as the cards all have very strong ...
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Change the rules of Life

Life-like cellular automaton are cellular automaton that are similar to Conway's Game of Life, in that they operate on a (theoretically) infinitely large square grid, where each cell has exactly 8 ...

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