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Optimal Minesweeper on the Largest Board
Overview:
Your challenge is to write a program that will play minesweeper optimally, giving the best move in any position. Moreover, you must do this on the largest board possible.
Game details: ...
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1answer
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Babylon.js - loop through a scene and apply a simple fragment shader to all of the objects
You have a library - a fully loaded 2014 Babylon.js.
You have a fragment shader - let's call it sample.fragment.fx.
You have a scene - loaded ahead of time, possibly from a .babylon JSON file.
Your ...
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votes
2answers
960 views
Mastermind strategy
I could only find code-golf challenges for Mastermind, so here's a code-challenge version that I would have liked to take on myself.
An optimal strategy for the normal Mastermind game, MM(4,6), was ...
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3answers
882 views
Guess the word (aka Lingo)
The goal of this challenge is to write a program able to guess a word in the smallest possible number of attempts.
It is based on the concept of the Lingo TV show ...
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7answers
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Hunt the Wumpus
When I was a lad, kids would wander into computer stores and play Hunt the Wumpus until the staff kicked us out. It was a simple game, programmable on the home computers of the mid-1970s, machines so ...
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6answers
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Write a Hangman Solver
You are required to write a Hangman solver. Testing against this English word list[1], the solver that solves the most number of words wins, with the number of total incorrect guesses being the ...
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1answer
359 views
Graphical, networked, two-(human)-player Tic-Tac-Toe
Create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that allows two human players to play against each other using two networked devices.
Requirements:
Network play.
Program must let both players know whose turn it is.
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0answers
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Find the best path in a “match-3” game
Suppose you want to cheat in a "match-3" game. In this "match-3" game:
In each turn you can move a gem along a path. For example, you can move a gem right-right-down, as in A. (The gems are ...
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6answers
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Create a User-Profile Mini-Game
Yesterday, I stumbled on a very clever thing.
Yes, that's a working implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe on a user profile page, from @minitech. Of course, the moment I saw it, I had to reverse engineer ...
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0answers
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Minimal Sudoku Generator [closed]
Ask questions if you need to, I'll elaborate on anything that needs clarified.
My challenge is to unsolve a sudoku to a minimal state. Basically take a supplied, solved, sudoku board and unsolve it ...
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4answers
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Best Scoring Boggle Board
I was interested in seeing the answers to this (now defunct) question, but it has never been corrected/improved.
Given a set of 6-sided Boggle dice (configuration stolen from this question), ...
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1answer
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Sudoku board generator
A program that randomly generates a Sudoku game board with varying degrees of difficulty (however you decide to measure difficulty). Sudoku requires that there is only one solution, so your program ...
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2answers
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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
a comparatively simple bot ...
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0answers
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Console Role Playing Game [closed]
Below are a basic set of requirements.
The following commands (for an interface to the game):
attack <target>, <move>
goto <place>
buy <item>
enum <
targets,
...
