# Questions tagged [game]

This challenge is generally based upon, related to, or simulates a game or some portion of one.

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### Solve an Inglenook Sidings Puzzle

Solve an Inglenook Sidings Puzzle Background The Inglenook Sidings Puzzle is a shunting/switching yard puzzle by Alan Wright for model railroading. The rules for the puzzle are as follows: (Source) ...
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### A rolling drop gathers all pearls?

Quell is a single-player grid-based puzzle game. Pearls are scattered across a 2D map and the aim is to collect them all by rolling a drop of water over them. For this challenge we will only consider ...
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### Is This Scrabble Board Valid?

Background Scrabble is a word game in which players collaboratively build a board consisting of letter tiles that spell words. Each word must be connected to another word, and players gain points ...
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### Best response to the Evolution of Trust? - Part 1

Backstory I was fiddling around with the Evolution of Trust and thought of this.Warning: I recommend you go check it out first before attempting this challenge. Summary for people who haven’t played A ...
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### How many Sets are there?

This is similar in concept to this challenge, but that is pretty restrictive on input and output and I think opening up these restrictions would lead to a completely different set of solutions that ...
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### Will Alice win in this Stick Bomber game?

Background Stick Bomber is a two-player game I just made up. Initially, some sticks are placed in one or more groups, and the sticks in each group are laid out in a straight line. So a configuration ...
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### Will the hydra finally die? Part II

Background This is a follow up question to the question: Will the Hydra finally die? As before a dangerous A Medusa have released a dangerous Hydra which is revived unless the exact number of heads it ...
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### Roll up a D&D character, with options

I'd like to roll up the ability scores for my Dungeons and Dragons character. But I'd also like them to be balanced (and slightly better than average). Typically, a character's stats are created by ...
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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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### Will the Hydra finally die?

Background A Medusa have released a dangerous Hydra which is revived unless the exact number of heads it have is removed. The knights can remove a certain number of heads with each type of attack, and ...
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### The Great Betting Game

Your task is to create either a console "app" or a function which allows the user to bet on certain numbers or retire / claim rounds. Bets Your program or function will prompt for a command ...
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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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### A Cat’s Game to Claim

Intro You like cats. Naturally, you like cat’s games in tic-tac-toe. So, you’ve come up with a little party trick. You ask someone what square on the board they want you to make a move in. And you ask ...
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### No More Jockeys - CodeGolf Version

This challenge is inspired by the game No More Jockeys. The input is a list of tuples of natural numbers (potentially including 0), in some appropriate input format. Starting with player 0 and ...
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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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### 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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### Which Ninjutsu am I casting?

In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, the Ninja class has the ability to use combinations of up to three handsigns (Ten, Chi and Jin) to perform a variety of ninjutsu skills. The skill you cast depends on ...
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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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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, ...
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, ...
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 ...