There's a minigame in Super Mario 3D World known as the Lucky House. It consists of a slot machine with 4 blocks. Each block may be one of 5 different icons (Flower, Leaf, Bell, Cherry or Boomerang) and the goal of the player is to get as many identical icons as possible. The player is reward...

proof-golf rubiks-cube Solve All the Rubik's Cubes! I want to solve a Rubik's Cube. Unfortunately, I am blind, and my friend doesn't know how to solve a Rubik's Cube, so I just make one move at a time and ask my friend if it is solved. This generally doesn't work very well, so I would like to k...

Write a radiation-hardened irradiator code-golf radiation-hardening The task is to write a radiation-hardened irradiator. What do I mean by that, exactly? An irradiator is a program that, when given a string as input, will output all possible versions of the string with one character removed...

Challenge Write a program that takes as input a positive integer n and returns a text string of length n stating a time in the English language. Example Input: 20 Output: "It's six thirty-five" Input 14 Output: "It is 5 past 6" Notes If the string does not exist (for example if n = 1) the...

Currently the migration text(shown below) references the old name(PPCG) of this site. Since this site is now called Code Golf & Coding Challenges, shouldn't we change the migration text to reference that instead?

Weigh your words! code-golf string ascii-art The challenge Given two strings, each of length up to 30, consisting of printable ascii characters (codes \$[32, 126]\$), put them onto a balance scale! This consists of the following steps: Calculate and compare the weights of the strings Choose t...

Every square number has at least 1 different square number with which their Levenshtein distance is exactly 1.* For a given square \$x\$, each square that meets this condition is called a Levenshtein neighbour of \$x\$. For example, \$36\$ is a Levenshtein neighbour of \$16\$, as only 1 edit (\$1...