I've been working on this iOS app recently and I encountered a (rather easily solved) problem: How do I determine if my string is comprised only of emojis?
Well, that's your job today!
Input
A string. If the presence of unicode characters is problematic for you then you may use a different re...
Question
Santa must get to every house in the world to deliver gifts, can you make a program that will calculate the shortest path that Santa could take, and still visit all the cities listed?
Specifications
The program does not have to accept any input. It just has to return a list of cities ...
I was just playing the board game Sorry! with some people, and I realized that I could base a few interesting challenges off of it. This one is pretty simple.
You task is simply to output an ascii-art version of a sorry board, placing pieces where I tell you to.
Specs
First, here is an image o...
To simulate a zombie invasion, start with a grid of # and representing the map:
## ##
### #
## ##
# ###
# ####
# represents land.
represents water.
The zombies start at a point on the map...
## ##
### #
## %#
# ###
# ####
...and spread. % denotes land infected by zomb...
Unlike traditional coding competition sites, submissions (answers) on PPCG are free form; the only hard requirement is that all submissions must contain the scoring header and the code that solves the challenge. While some answers stop there, others contain a lot of additional information.
Usual...
I was thinking about snow this morning, and so I made a d3 random snow page.
Tryed to do it thinner, but not lower than 300 bytes.
Let you have a try, show me how you make snow whit these roles:
Random position flakes (At least 10 flakes)
No images
snowflake can be every type of letter or car...
So you've got your Monopoly board, shall we start a game?
To start with, we'll need some dice and to know where we land!
Write a program that outputs the rolls and resting places of a given number players for a given number turns.
Input
In any suitable format for your language
The number of...
Zipper multiplication
code-golf arithmetic
Introduction
Let's define a new arithmetical operation, which I call zipper multiplication.
To zipper multiply two nonnegative integers, you add leading zeros to make the lengths match, multiply the corresponding base-10 digits of the numbers, add l...
Verify my lasagne
Scenario
I often cook lasagne, but I also have a few mistakes. Since I repeat this faults so often I thought I maybe could do an programm that checks if I did everything right.
Valid lasagne
A valid lasagne is
At least 5 columns wide
At least 4 layers high
The top layer is...
Cumbersome I/O formats
Generally, allow flexible input and output formats. People want to write code to do your task of, say, composing permutations, not reading/writing numbers in a particular semicolon-separated format, or from a file, or with input validation. For code golf, it's annoying whe...
