Questions tagged [king-of-the-hill]
King-of-the-hill indicates a game where the submissions interact with and compete against each other in some form of game. Competitions which pit programs against each other without interaction should rather use [code-challenge].
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Adversarial Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
In this challenge, you will play the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, but with a twist: There's also an adversary trying to mess you up!
The Prisoner's dilemma is a scenario in game theory where there are ...
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Crazyhouse chess KoTH
What is Crazyhouse Chess?
Crazyhouse Chess is a chess variant that is basically normal chess except you can place a piece you previously captured back on the board instead of a regular turn.
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The Dating Game / Secretary Problem
The bots are looking for love. Can you help them?
The rules
The goal of this game is find the bot you have the highest compatibility with. However, robots, who are inexperienced at dating are unable ...
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Radiation Hardening KOTH
The goal of radiation hardening is to make a program still work after you remove a byte. However, what if a skilled competitor is purposefully trying to mess with you?
In this game, each bot will take ...
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Speed up, slowpoke!
In this king-of-the-hill challenge, you will program a bot, consisting of a python function of the form
def BOTNAME(info, me, round):
pass # ... main body
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King of the Cards
King of the Cards
Code available here!
In this King of the Hill challenge, you must write a bot that can play Crazy Eights. This is a card game often played by children, in which the objective is to ...
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King of the Hill: Greed Control [duplicate]
King of the Hill: Greed Control
What is Greed Control
Greed control is a multiplayer round-based game
in which in every round, a player bet a number inside
a ...
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King of The Holster (finished)
CLOSED to competing entries
New bots are welcome but are not part of the main competition and probably won't be officially tested.
You stand on a dusty stretch of code, watching the other programs ...
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King of the Ziggurat
Background
You awake on the ground. Above you is a giant stepped pyramid-like structure. Based on your ancient history lessons, you recognize it as a ziggurat. You have been transported by Dr. ...
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Tron Light-Cycle KotH
Basically the tron light-cycle game as a king of the hill competition!
Leaderboard
Updated as of 2022-04-05
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King of the Hill: Nose Poker - An ogre game for ogres
Links
Chat room
The official game report
Github repo - In case of bugs to report
Here's the official score table:
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Play Thud! (Troll Edition)
Key Links
Dwarf question
Chat room
Game
Controller Interface
Troll league table
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Play Thud! (Dwarf Edition)
Key links:
Troll question
Chat room
Game
Controller Interface
Dwarf league table
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KotH - Floating Point Prisoners Dilemma
Background
So, nowadays the popular Prisoner's Dilemma variant is the Prisoner's Trilemma, where there are three options. I can easily see that being increased, so I figured
Why settle for three ...
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Random Prisoner's Trilemma - Python 3 KOTH
The Prisoner's Dilemma, but with 3 choices, and the payoffs are random!
Each round, your bot recieves a 3x3 grid and chooses a row to play. The grid might be this:
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Turn-based RPS Poker
This is a two-player card game which resembles a vastly simplified game of Texas Hold'em,
combined with RPS (rock-paper-scissors) and the most basic mechanic of commercial turn-based card games.
The ...
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Let's play Judgement!
In this king-of-the-hill challenge, you will be making a python 3 bot to play the card game judgement!
Sandbox
Rules
Judgement is a hand based game similar to games like rummy. In each round,
7 cards ...
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Time bomb (KoTH) [duplicate]
In this challenge, players need to tamper with a time bomb as late as possible without getting blasted in the face.
Mechanics
Let N be the number of bots plus one. ...
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xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Results are now out here!
Congratulations offset prediction for winning the challenge!
Don't worry if you missed out, the controller code as well as all the bots that competed are all in the Github ...
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Cooperative Counting
Final results
1st place goes to Follow!
Honourable mentions to The diff predictor (2nd), and Simple Killer, Low Blow and High to Low (joint 3rd).
Other winners:
(score competition) 1st - Simple Killer
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Ball game King of the hill
AND THE WINNER IS....
Note: Competition is over, but more submissions are welcome!
Ball game is a game I invented where two players start with 100 energy each. Every turn, each player independently ...
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Liars and Guessers
Github
You have probably played, and may even have written a program to play, a simple number guessing game. If so, this probably looks familiar:
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Bot Factory KoTH (2.0)
In this challenge, bots (consisting of JS functions) move around an infinite factory (playing field), collecting characters. These characters can be used to build worker bots, or dropped for other ...
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KoTH: Political Simulator
It's election time, and your job is to beat your competitor in a head-on rivalry! You are both trying to win over a city of 256 people in a 16x16 grid. Right now, the city hasn't been divided into ...
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Simple Race KoTH
This challenge has officially ended. Further submissions will not be competitive (but are still welcome!). View the scores here
In this challenge, submissions ("bots") should be Javascript ...
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One-card Poker for Two
This is a challenge to write bots to play the 1st and 2nd players in the following simple poker game.
Rules of the poker game
There are two players, A and B. Each antes $10 into the pot, and is dealt ...
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Rock Paper Scissors Meta-Gaming Tournament
This is a rock paper scissors competition. Algorithms will face each other in 100 rounds of rock paper scissors. Except that the algorithms will also be able to read the source code of each other!
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Chase the Easter Bunny™️️, be the Easter Bunny™
Chat room: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/106513/easter-bunny-challenge
Git repo: https://github.com/ajfaraday/easter_bunny_hunt
The garden is a 2-dimensional grid with 49 rows and 49 columns.
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KoTH: Wizard Battle
In this challenge, all bots are wizards. At the beginning of each round, they create a wand which has a certain chance of successfully stunning another wizard. They then fight, by choosing one bot to ...
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KoTH: Highest HP is Eliminated!
In this challenge, bots must survive as long as possible. In each turn, the bot with the most HP is eliminated.
This challenge is inspired by the Smallest unique number KoTH.
Results
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Bot Factory KoTH [duplicate]
Note: Bot Factory KoTH (2.0) is now posted; you're probably looking for that one instead!
In this challenge, bots (consisting of JS functions) move around an infinite factory (playing field), ...
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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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Totally Blind Chess
In this challenge, you play chess without seeing any of your opponent's pieces or moves. Or your own pieces. Or whether your own moves succeeded. You send only a stream of moves, with no feedback. If ...
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Write a bot to play Grid Game
This is the Grid Game:
It's a game based on cellular automata, where the aim is to remove all of the pieces belonging to your opponent.
How it works:
There are two kinds of piece in the game, ...
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The Celestial Bureaucracy KoTH
In Imperial China, ranks in society were not decided by birth or wealth, but by a person's ability to excel in the Imperial Examinations. The Jade Emperor, divine ruler of the Heavens, has called for ...
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Farkle Fest 2k19: An AI dice game tournament
Farkle Fest 2k19
In this challenge, we will be playing the semi-popular dice game Farkle.
Farkle is a dice game that has players selecting to save dice or risk rerolling the die for more points to ...
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Gold Battle KoTH
This challenge has ended. To see the final scores of the competitors, click here
In this challenge, each submission is one bot. Each bot should be a Javascript function. Bots will fight to obtain the ...
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Knights and Knaves and Codes
In this challenge, your bot has landed on an island with the stereotypical knights and knaves. Knights always tell the truth, and knaves always lie. The objective is to find the correct 32 digit ...
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Hungry Blobs KoTH
Contest Finished! Read comments on blobs to view their score.
This KoTH is loosely inspired by Primer's Natural Selection Simulation. Your bot is a blob. In order to survive, you must eat pellets to ...
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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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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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Iterated Prisoner's Trilemma
CHALLENGE STATUS: OPEN
Comment, open a PR, or otherwise yell at me if I'm missing your bot.
Prisoner's dilemma ... with three choices. Crazy, huh?
Here's our payoff matrix. Player A on the left, B ...
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Robot Roulette: High stakes robot gambling
Final Standings
+----------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+----------------------------+
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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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Programmable Bots [closed]
Game
In this challenge you will play a made-up turn-based game.
The game is made up of the following elements:
A 8x8 grid with each spot containing nothing (space), a robot (...
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Russian BS - Submissions accepted until October 13th
The ChatRoom is here
I love playing the card game BS, but sometimes, it just doesn't have enough oomph for my short attention span. Instead, let's play some Russian BS.
Rules
Here is a quick guide ...
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Smallest unique number KoTH
Create a bot to choose the smallest unique number.
(Based on a psychology experiment I heard about many years ago but haven't been able to track down again.)
Rules
Each game will consist of 10 ...
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Let's play some Reaper - Closed for Submissions
NOTE: The winner of this competition is Jack!!!. No more submissions will be accepted.
Here is the chat room for this king-of-the-hill challenge. This is my first one so I'm open to suggestions!
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Partially-Observable Connect-4
The Game
You will be playing an (almost) standard game of Connect-4. Unfortunately, it is a correspondence game and someone has placed black tape on every second row starting from the bottom, so that ...
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