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The Weekly Challenge 299: Words, Words, What Are Words? 15 December 2024

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

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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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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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The Weekly Challenge 267: The Line is the Sign That Your Product Counts 05 May 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved series multiplication and text fitting. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 266: X, the Uncommon 28 April 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved word list comparison and matrix validation. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 265: The Appearance of Completion 21 April 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved hunting integers and filtering words. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 264: Greatest English Array 14 April 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 263: Targets Merge 07 April 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 262: Count Max, Type O Negative 31 March 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 261: Two Elements Who Adore You 24 March 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved digit sums and progressive multiplication. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 260: Uniquely Rank 17 March 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved multi-level counts and word ordering. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 259: Banking Parser 10 March 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved date offsets and parser construction. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 258: Valuing the Count 03 March 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved counting digits and matching bit-counts. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 257: Smaller than Echelon 25 February 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 256: Maximum Strings 18 February 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 255: Most Frequently Odd Character 11 February 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 254: Reverse the Power of Three Vowels 04 February 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved numerical searching and letter substitution. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 253: You Are the Weakest String 28 January 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 252: Unique and Special 21 January 2024

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

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The Weekly Challenge 251: Concatenating Luck 14 January 2024 - 2 comments

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved decomposing sequences and searching for limit values. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 250: Smallest Viable Value 07 January 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved searching sequences and parsing strings. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 249: Equal Match 31 December 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved breaking lists into groups and building a numerical sequence. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 248: Shortest Submatrix 24 December 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved searching a string and adding matrix elements. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 247: Most Frequent Santa 17 December 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved gift allocation and letter pairs. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 246: Linear 49 10 December 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved random generation and spotting a linear recurrence. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 245: Largest Sort 03 December 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved keyed sorting and digit searching. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 244: Counting Your Heroes 26 November 2023

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

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The Weekly Challenge 243: Pairs on the Floor 19 November 2023

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

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The Weekly Challenge 242: One Of Our Matrices Is Missing 12 November 2023

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

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The Weekly Challenge 241: Prime Triplets 05 November 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sequence searching and another nested sort. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 240: Building Acronyms 29 October 2023

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

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The Weekly Challenge 239: Same and Consistent 22 October 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved joining strings and matching characters. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 238: Running Persistence 15 October 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved cumulative sums and complicated sorts. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 237: Seize Greatness 08 October 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved date calculations and didn't involve array permutations. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 236: Change for the Machines 01 October 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved calculating change and finding loops. (Note that this ends today.)

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The Weekly Challenge 235: One, Zero 24 September 2023

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved spotting sequences, and duplicating list entries. (Note that this ends today.)

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