I know exotic languages are really useful to win golf contests, but I dont see much INTERCAL codes around here, I dont really understand why. Do you have any advice that can help people getting decent sizes with INTERCAL? could this language ever be competitive? INTERCAL is so less exploited th...

Context: You are a cryptographer. You have stumbled upon a mysterious group of individuals, who present you with a challenge, which you must solve in order to join their secret society. Description: You have been given a binary stream consisting of bytes that have a random bit-width (un...

This is the third in a series of puzzles that I will be posting every Monday at Midnight PST, and the final variant of "Take It or Leave It". The first puzzle is located Here The second puzzle is located Here Context: A reclusive billionaire has created a game show to attract the world's b...

The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym, abbreviated INTERCAL, is a very unique programming language. Among its unreproducible qualities are its binary operators. INTERCAL's two binary operators are interleave (also known as mingle), and select. Interleave is represented with a chang...

There are a lot of challenges that get you to write programs and/or functions, but (almost) none that get you to write classes. I thought of a way to lay out class-writing challenges - it's quite specific (and might be a bit longer than a code-golf challenge of similar complexity), but does ensur...

Meta question showing community consensus that cash prizes are a bad idea. A series of questions on main that offer non-trivial amounts in bitcoin for each new best answer: Take it or leave it Take it or leave it II Take it or leave it III These questions are clearly well-intended and fun,...

Maze to regex Suppose we have an ASCII maze like so: ####### #s# # # # # # # # # # ### # # # e# ####### The input maze will have the following properties: One cell (marked s) will denote the start of the maze, and a separate cell (marked e) will denote the exit. The walls will be denot...

The challenge is to write a brainfuck program that searches sequentially through memory for the first NON-zero cell. The program should start somewhere in fairly low memory (there will probably be some overhead/counters/etc.). Once the program starts checking cells, it should continue to the ri...

Kolmorogov image complexity kolmorogov-complexity code-golf graphical-output The image below [ to be added when posting to main ] was produced using a combination of simple methods that, if known, would allow reproducing the image with a short program. It is therefore known to have low Kolmor...

Build Me a Pyramid this is a simple ascii-art code-golf. you need to build a pyramid from cubes. cubes can be viewed from 2 angles: _____ _____ /\ \ / /\ / \____\ /____/ \ \ / / \ \ / \/____/ \____\/ this is an example for 2-size cubes from the 2 po...

Empty a Swimming Pool . . . With Only a Red Solo Cup You have a swimming pool that is filled to the brim with water. You need to empty it, but you can't think of an efficient method. So you decide to use your red solo cup. You will repeatedly fill the cup all the way and dump it outside the pool...