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The Weekly Challenge 298: Whatever You Do, Be Maximally Right 08 December 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various sorts of array hunting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 297: Semi-Ordered Contiguity 01 December 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array hunting and re-permuting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 296: Matchstick Compression 24 November 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved run-length encoding and knapsack-style fitting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 295: Jump and Break 17 November 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved tree searches. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 294: Permutationally Consecutive 10 November 2024 - 2 comments

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list searches and permutations. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 293: Domino Boomerang 03 November 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved checking dominoes and doing some floating-point operations. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 292: Largest Zuma 27 October 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved fiddling with arrays and searching game states. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 291: Index Poker 20 October 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list evaluation and poker hands. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 290: Double Luhn 13 October 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list analysis and Luhn's checksum algorithm. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 289: Maximum Jumble 06 October 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list evaluation and string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 288: Block the Palindrome 29 September 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved palindromic numbers and block searches. (Note that this ends today.)

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Brute-Forcing Hidden Movement 24 September 2024

I've been adminisitering a hidden-movement game over at the tekeli.li forums, and it occurred to me that this was a potentially enjoyable programming challenge.

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The Weekly Challenge 287: Strong and Valid 22 September 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved password analysis and number parsing. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 286: The Game of Order 15 September 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved quinelikes and list processing. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 285: Making Connections 08 September 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved network analysis and change calculation. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 284: Lucky Relative 01 September 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a list search and an unusual sort. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 283: Uniquely Valuable 25 August 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list counting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 282: Good Keys for Changing Integers 18 August 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string-searching integers and bouncing around a keyboard. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 281: Check the Knight's Colour 11 August 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved chess-related problems. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 280: The Sudden Appearance of Asterisks 04 August 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved character repetition and a basic string parse. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 279: Split and Sort Strings of Letters 28 July 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved more string manipulations. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 278: Reverse the Sort in Strings of Words 21 July 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved decoding a string format and partially sorting characters. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 276: Frequency Day is Complete 07 July 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved combinations and counting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 275: Broken Digits 30 June 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various flavours of string processing. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 274: Goat on the Bus 23 June 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string tweaking and bus route analysis. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 273: Building Character 16 June 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved poking through strings. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 272: Score the Defranged Strings 09 June 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string replacement and character searching. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 271: Sort the Maximum One 02 June 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved matrix analysis, bit-counting and sorting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 270: Special Distribtions Position the Elements 26 May 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved searching matrices and raising array elements. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 269: The Bitwise Elements 19 May 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sequence testing and splitting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 268: If the Game is Magic, Where's My Number? 12 May 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list comparisons and rearangements. (Note that this ends today.)

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