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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Survival Game - Create Your Wolf
The Board
The Board is a two dimensional array of cells. Cells are populated by Animals. Every day, all Animals on the Board simultaneously make one move. If two or more Animals move to the same cell, ...
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The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Tournament of Epicness
Most Recent Leaderboard @ 2014-08-02 12:00
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Red vs. Blue - Pixel Team Battlebots
This contest is officially over. The Blue Team won!
I autoran two sets of 50 battles and amazingly, Blue won all 100 of them. Looking at the stats, it is clear that the cooperative entries of PhiNotPi ...
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Block Building Bot Flocks!
The contest is over!
Intro
This is an interactive king-of-the-hill contest where the controller is fully contained in a Stack Snippet at the bottom of the question. The controller automatically ...
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Gold Collector KoTH
Note: The survey for community favorite will be released soon
In this KoTH, the aim is to be the last bot alive. Coins will be placed in random areas, and your bot must get the coins first. If a bot ...
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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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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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Connect-n time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
Does anyone remember the 2 player game connect 4? For those who don't it was a 6x7 board that stands vertical on a surface. The goal of connect 4 is to, ...
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Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Caveman mad. Other caveman take stick but stick was for me. Caveman fight!
Description
Caveman need sharp stick to stab other caveman. Other caveman also try to stab with sharp stick. Caveman can ...
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Formic Functions - Ant Queen of the Hill Contest
Watch live | Active answers | Add new answer | Chat room | Source code | Leaderboard
New tournaments whenever needed. New players and new updates very welcome.
Not actual game footage.
Each player ...
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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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It's Life, Jim, but not as we know it
You probably know Conway's Game of Life, the famous cellular automaton invented by mathematician John Conway. Life is a set of rules that, together, allow you to simulate a two-dimensional board of ...
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Hunger Gaming - Eat or Die
Hunger Gaming - Eat or Die
If you don't eat, you die. If you eat, you live (until you die). You will die, so try to die last.
Overview
There is an island populated with a herd of prey animals. You ...
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Save the last bullet for yourself
The contest is now over. Coward is the winner.
You can watch the last match here.
Suddenly zombies appear! OH NOES!
In this king-of-the-hill challenge, you must create a bot to survive the zombie ...
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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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3D: Discrete Dogfighting Duel (Now open to non Java submissions)
UPDATE: isSuicidal() was added to the plane class, this allows you to check if a plane is on an irreversible collision course with the walls!!
UPDATE: updateCoolDown() separated from simulateMove()
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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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Chess Tournament
This is a chess-KOTH with simplified rules (because chess itself is already complicated, playing it via a simple program doesn't make it easier). At the moment it is limited to java (version 8), but ...
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Asymmetrical KOTH: Catch the Cat (Catcher Thread)
UPDATE:
The gist-files are updated (including new submissions) as the Controller.java did not catch Exceptions (only errors). It does now catch errors and exceptions and also prints them.
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Asymmetrical KOTH: Catch the Cat (Cat Thread)
UPDATE:
The gist-files are updated (including new submissions) as the Controller.java did not catch Exceptions (only errors). It does now catch errors and exceptions and also prints them.
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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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A BlackJack KOTH contest
BlackJack
As I had a blast working on the
original KOTH challenge, I wanted to
come up with another one. For me, the fun
of these AI challenges is in refining
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Good Versus Evil
Results - July 19, 2014
The current King of the Hill is Mercenary by user Fabigler! Keep submitting entries and knock him off of his throne!
Click here to view the Scoreboard.
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Survival Game - AlienWar
AlienWar
This game takes place in a very crowded planet where aliens are the superior race. Your task is to create your own alien and beat all other.
The Board
It is a 2 dimensional board.
The ...
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KOTH: A world-wide pandemic
Final results are here !
Introduction
In 2042, the world has become overpopulated. Globalization, overcrowding, new lifestyles and a global lack of hygiene has caused a new pandemic to spread. ...
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The Futuristic Gun Duel
The Background Future
In the year 2017, you and your opponent will face off in a futuristic gun battle where only one may survive. Are you experienced enough to defeat your opponent? Now is the time ...
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BattleBots: The Tournament
The results are in, the contest is over.
The winner is arshajii's EvilBot with 14 wins ahead of Neo-Bot with 13 wins and CentreBot and LastStand with 11 wins each.
Scores from the final run
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Codémon, I choose you!
Your kindly neighbour, Doctor Tree, just gave you three magical creatures called Codémon. There's a battle tournament in the nearby town of Colorville. Are you the very best, like no one ever was?
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Robot Roulette: High stakes robot gambling
Final Standings
+----------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+----------------------------+
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1P5: Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
This task is part of the First Periodic Premier Programming Puzzle Push and is
intended as demonstration of the new king-of-the-hill challenge-type proposal.
The task is the write a program to play ...
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What's wrong with public variables?
Code Bots
I hate private and protected variables. I just want to access anything and everything!
If you are like me, then this challenge is for you!
Write a bot that works together in harmony with ...
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The Game of Towns
Introduction
The game takes place in a small world with different towns. The rulers of the towns hate each other and would like to rule the world. The people are divided into two groups, warriors and ...
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Morra, the Noble Game of Kings
Background
The game of Morra is a simple game. In the "original" version, several players simultaneously throw out a number 0-5 with their hands while guessing the total sum of everyone's hands. ...
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Stock Exchange KoTH
The stock market is all about the speed of knowledge. Unlike previous challenges, the current stock price is not random: it is determined by those playing the game. If you can identify an under-...
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Lowest unique bid auction
Thanks for all the entries, the deadline has now passed and the final scores are at the end of the question.
Congratulations to PhiNotPi on a fairly comprehensive victory.
This is a king-of-the-...
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KOTH: Warring Towns
Final results are here !
Introduction
The game takes is strongly inspired by Manu's Game of Town. It takes place in a world of swords and magic. The king who ruled the whole continent just died, and ...
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Play a game of Yahtzee
In the game Yahtzee, players take turns rolling 5 6-sided dice up to three times per turn, possibly saving dice between rolls, and then selecting a category they wish to use for their roll. This ...
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Play Thud! (Dwarf Edition)
Key links:
Troll question
Chat room
Game
Controller Interface
Dwarf league table
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Prisoner's Dilemma v.3 - Petri Dilemma
A mad scientist has just created a new species of bacterium! He has decided to name it Noblus Gentlemanus, after observing its behaviour. However, his bacteria have ran out of food, and have ...
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Keep your distance!
Every player has a number. Can yours be the farthest from them all?
Requirements
Write a Java, Python 2, or Ruby function named choose() that accepts three ...
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Prisoner's Dilemma v.2 - Battle Royale
In this question, a game was devised in which players would face each other off pair by pair in the Prisoner's Dilemma, to determine which iterative strategy scored the highest against others.
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Play Thud! (Troll Edition)
Key Links
Dwarf question
Chat room
Game
Controller Interface
Troll league table
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Tips for King of the Hill bots
What general tips do you have for creating a bot to participate in a King of the Hill challenge? What strategies do you use to go from considering the challenge to creating your bot? What data ...
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Code Bots 3: Parallel Programming Antipatterns
Welcome back! I'm excited to present the 3rd CodeBots challenge. This one has been a long time in the making. This challenge will be split up in 3 sections: the short version, the long version, and ...
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KOTH - Loaded RPS
Contest permanently opened - Updated August 10th 2017
Even though on June 5th 2017 I declared a winner (who will be kept as the best answer) I'll be rnning new bots and updating the results.
June 5th ...
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CodeBots 2: Event Driven Design
Welcome to Code Bots 2!
You've learned your lesson since the last Code Bots. You've tried to figure out more ways to fit more actions in less lines, and now you finally have it. You're going to make ...
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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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