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Challenge You have a Chinese Checkers board looking like this: ...

Write a program that outputs its input unchanged. However: If all uppercase characters are removed from the program, it lowercases all uppercase letters. If all lowercase characters are removed from ...

Related: Read a crossword Task Given a completed Crossword puzzle, extract the words in it with their respective clue numbers, with "across" (horizontal) and "down" (vertical) words grouped and ...

Introduction Windows 95 used a very simple algorithm for verifying license keys. The scheme of an OEM license key always looked like this: xxxyy-OEM-NNNNNNN-zzzzz ...

Context We're at war! You need to transfer an important message to your general to inform them from an imminent assault. The thing is, your enemy knows a lot about cryptography : you will need to be ...

Background A snake is a path over the cells of a square grid, such that it doesn't touch itself on a side of a unit square. Touching at a corner is allowed. An example snake: ...

Overview The sharpness of a word is the sum of the sharpness of each of its letters, using the following rules: Sharp letters A, and ...

Introduction A double-castle number™ is a positive integer number that has a pattern of $$\underbrace{a\cdots a}_{m\text{ }a\text{s}}b\underbrace{a\cdots a}_{m\text{ }a\text{s}}b\underbrace{a\...

The riddle In yesterday's newspaper, I found a puzzle in which a Rook should start in the lower-left corner of a 12x12 checkerboard and then, during a round trip, visit each field exactly once except ...

A first order separable ordinary differential equation is (arguably) the easiest type of differential equation to solve, and takes the form of $$N(y)\frac{dy}{dx} = M(x) \\ y(x_0) = y_0$$ For two ...

What is the shortest code, in any garbage collected language (including ARC) that produces a memory leak? It does not matter how much memory is leaked. The shorter the code, and the more deeply ...

We all know what a quine is. A quine is a program which prints its own source code. And we also know about the printable ASCII characters. Well... this challenge mixes both. Your mission, should you ...

We all know true and false, but what do speakers around the globe say? ...

Write two programs, each taking a string s and a number n ≥ 0, such that: The first program prints ...

The 2020-05-29 xkcd comic showed us the numbers that Randall Munroe feels would be most likely to result from multiplication, other than the correct answers. The table does seem to have some sort of ...

Given an infinite arithmetically-progressive¹ sequence, compute the minimum length of a prefix with a product divisible by 2^8. Sample cases & reference implementation Here is a reference ...

Background My user ID is 78410, or \$1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0_2\$. One interesting property of this number is that, in binary, it doesn't have three consecutive identical digits, and yet it ...

You are the first engineer in a hot new startup, Lexographical. Our company is making waves by digitizing and indexing all words, real or not. The core of our product... Our secret sauce... Well, that'...

A normal Brainfuck program starts out with an array of cells, all containing the number 0. This program, on the other hand, must be able to run starting with any ...

The ball game is a game in which a number of players sit together in a circle. Each player is first assigned a number \$ n \$, either 1, ...

Background Define a run in a list as a maximal contiguous subsequence of identical values. For example, the list 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 3 2 2 has five runs of lengths ...

Overview The cover of a book will be provided in the following ASCII format: ______ | | | | | | | | ------ The input can be in any reasonable format ...

You will be given two integers \$M\$ and \$N\$. Find the number of pairs \$(x,y)\$ such that \$1 \le x \le M\$, \$1 \le y \le N\$ and \$(x+y)\mod5 = 0\$. For example, if \$M = 6\$ and \$N = 12\$, ...

A Belphegor number is a number of the form \$(10^{n+3}+666)*10^{n+1}+1\$ (1{n zeroes}666{n zeroes}1) where \$n\$ is an non-negative integer. A Belphegor prime is a ...

A program ordinal is a (possibly transfinite) ordinal which can be assigned to programs in some language depending on their output. To be more specific: Strings that give no output have ordinal 0 ...

Background The game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas went down in history also thanks to its wide selection of cheats. They're almost 90 and anyone who has ever touched this game, no doubt has tried ...

Congratulations to Neil for hitting 100k rep! As a tribute, we are going to study 'Neil numbers'. Neil's user ID is 17602 and there's something special about the binary representation of this number: ...

This is a very simple challenge. Task Whenever your code is run, your code should output the next sunset date and time in GMT for all capital cities on Earth. You should get the list of capitals ...

I've been playing around with a robot on the coordinate plane. This robot is able to tell me if it goes left, right, up, or down by reporting back a string consisting of the letters ...

In this challenge, Turing machines operate on a zero-initialized binary tape that is infinite in both directions. You are given an integer \$N\$, where \$1 \le N \le 20000\$. Your program has to ...

Write a function or program that accepts one character (or a string of length 1) as input, and outputs the number of times that character occurs inside the code. This program must be a Proper Quine, ...

Golf Me a Text Editor (similar challenges: Create a simple line editor and Line editor (more text here)) I seem to have forgotten which program to use to open, read, and write text files. Something ...

The string "node" must be hard-coded in plain ascii to obtain a string with the value "node", which must be transformed into the string "deno". You cannot include "deno", any other variations, any ...

Inspired by this code review question, I am curious to see what happens if we turn that into a code-golf challenge! The description is easy, the input is an array or any similar data structure with ...

Given a 24 hour time, e.g. 20:48, output the nearest time where each adjacent pair of digits has an absolute difference of 1, e.g. 21:01. That is, each number in the output must differ from the ...

You are the captain of a world-famous wrestling team. An Olympic-grade match is coming up, and you are determined not to let your team down. You also happen to be a competent programmer, so you are ...

Given a number n, find x such that x! = n, where both x and n are positive integers. Assume the input n will always be the factorial of a positive integer, so something like n=23 will not be given as ...

The task Given a folded and cut in places snowflake, "unwrap" it and output the result Input The base folded snowflake, without any cuts, looks like: ...

You are an employee of Microteque, a leading Silicon Valley startup creating smart microwave ovens for all kinds of strange places. Your customers can get their microwaves printed with patterns to ...

Task Given the situation with this global pandemic, you've been enlisted to help maintain social distancing. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program that takes in the ...

Is there a programming language that supports single tape Turing machines specified in some format? I am aware multiple formats for expressing them exist, but is there a standard one using which an ...

I'm looking for a program such that, given a finite list of strings, can find the shortest regexes possible to match exactly all of them and nothing else. Since there are multiple languages that ...

What all languages have a construct similar to python's eval, so you can write code during runtime and run it? A list would be helpful for certain programming ...

I've invented an SQL-like language. Let's call it SelectQL. You can't INSERT anything, you can only SELECT, and I don't have the ...

Background Bilibili is a China-based video sharing platform, similar to Nico Nico Douga in Japan, and Youtube around the world. Since the establishment, Bilibili had been using the AV code to ...

The world is full of Turing-complete programming languages. Just about every useful language (and most useless ones) are Turing-complete. Some even became Turing-complete by accident. Often this is ...

A great Python golfing tip is to omit needless spaces. But if you are like me, you don't always have the time to search for which spaces to remove. If only there was a way to speed up the process... ...

Given a strictly positive integer, N, produce an output satisfying the following: Produce an array of length N. Every string (i.e. "word") in the array is of ...

Back in 2018, there has been introduced new law in Poland to ban trading on sundays, but certain exceptions have been made (listed below). The task today is to determine, can one trade on the sunday ...

Input: A string (or the closest thing to that in your language) Output: The same string but converted to sentence case Rules: For this challenge, sentence case can be considered "...