Take for example this question. The top answer is pretty great, and as such it has received a lot of votes. But it is not the winning answer. Should we flag such questions for moderator attention? If not, what else should we do?

Introduction This is an interactive king-of-the-hill contest where the controller is fully contained in a Stack Snippet at the bottom of the question. The controller automatically reads the answers and plays through games. Anyone can run it at any time directly in their browser. The mechanics o...

Rearranging Words code-challenge grid string You should write a program which receives two words as input and outputs a sequence of movements which rearrange the first word into the second. You should use as few moves as you can. Both strings will contain only lowercase letters and the second ...

It's time... to count the votes! Today there are local elections in my entire country. Here, the number of seats for each party is decided using the D'Hondt method. Your goal is to implement a program or function that will decide how many seats each party gets, in the shortest amount of bytes. ...

Super Smash Bots king-of-the-hill This is an idea for a KOTH based off of the Super Smash Bros video game series by Nintendo. The basic mechanics of this KOTH would be an every-man-for-himself battle between a large number of players simultaneously. Players can execute a variety of moves, lik...

Strategic Voting, The Game One of the most common voting systems for single-winner elections is the plurality voting method. Simply put, the candidate with the most votes wins. Plurality voting, however, is mathematically unsound and is liable to create situations in which voters are driven to...

I am preparing to coding interview and I met this task today: You are given 30-bit unsigned integer N. A right cyclic shift of N by K bits is the result of performing a right cyclic shift of N by one bit K times. Leading zeros may appear. For example: the right cyclic shift of 9736 by one bit...

A polyglot is a program which can be run by several different language's interpreters/compilers without failing. For example, the stackoverflow 404 page contains a polyglot which runs in Python, Perl, Ruby, C, brainfuck and befunge, each time printing 404 to stdout. Now, my challenge is to cr...

For sorted array of integers X = [x1, x2, x3, ....] where x1 < x2 < x3, ... And integer Y Check if Y has a possible 1 or more integers in the array X that add up to equal the value of Y Test Cases: X: [3,5,8,9], Y: 5 => true X: [3,5,8,9], Y: 24 => true X: [3,5,8,9], Y: 6 => false

Shrink each word in a string of group of strings to single letters delineated by spaces or punctuation. Example- I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I get all steamed up - hear me shout! Tip me over and pour me out. Becomes- I a l t, s a s. H i...

Packing Wood Pieces code-golf packing There are two pieces of wood. Both consist of a straight body and some extra blocks below the body. An example piece with extra blocks at (0-indexed) positions 1,4,7,9,10: XXXXXXXXXXX X X X XX The piece can be represented as a 01 binary sequence with ...

Temperature Converter code-golf This is a byte sized challenge where you have to convert an input temperature in one of the three (Celcius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit) to the other two. Input You would be provided with a temperature as a number followed by a unit (separated by space) and your outp...

Write a self replicating program, in the source code filename H., manually compile and run or just run if your chosen language is dynamic, and it should then just create a new source file, e., with the same exact source code, and automatically compile/run that new program, which makes the new sou...