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This is a fixed output challenge. Output a textual representation of a chessboard hosting 8 queens, none of which are attacking each other. There are 92 ways of arranging them, 12 if rotations and...
Given a string, convert all of its letters using ROT13, and all of its digits using ROT5. This is sometimes referred to as ROT13.5. Input A sequence of printable ASCII characters (character cod...
Given a sequence of lower case letters, sort them into order of height. Heights The heights of letters are dependent on font, so for this challenge the height order to be used is as defined below...
Given a radius R, output a text representation of a circle. Input A positive integer R (strictly greater than zero) You do not need to handle values of R greater than 32 Output A square ...
Background While we do have a "Hello, World!" challenge, we still don't have one regarding input. So let's do one! Challenge Create a program that takes an input (not as a function argument) the...
This is a fixed output challenge. It is similar to a standard Kolmogorov complexity challenge, except you get to choose your own fixed output. Given no input, output 55 fruits. You may choose any 5...
A chequer board (also spelt "checker board" in some places) is an 8 by 8 grid of squares alternating between 2 colours. Check whether a provided pattern could be a region of a chequer board. The c...
In Google Docs, the word count tool looks like this: Pages would not make sense, but your goal is to implement every other count. Definitions Words are strings of text separated by any amount ...
Challenge Make a program that takes input of an integer that's $n > 1$ and print out a staircase using a specific character for stair basing (hashes (#) for demonstration; you can use spaces,...
Given a list of strings(and optionally, their length) as input, weave the strings together. Intro Your goal is to mimic the WV operator in Pip. Take a list of strings and alternate between their ...
Given a string and a non-negative integer $n$, output a new string in which each character is repeated $n$ times. Test cases: "abc", 1 -> "abc" "Hello", 0 -> "" "double", 2 -> "ddo...
Disclaimer This challenge also exists in CGCC, but if you want to compete here (too), then hop in! Challenge Recreate "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", using the least bytes possible. Lyrics: ...
Introduction What is the Caesar shift cipher (ROT$n$)? It's basically a cipher sequence that changes a letter's value from the number chosen. If we use ROT1 on "games", we get "hbnft". The basic i...
Given a non-negative integer up to $999\,999\,999$, write it in English. The input number can be in any form other than English (though you'll typically want to use the native integer type of your...
Background Inspired by this challenge that is also a mathematical English translator. Challenge Write a program that translates a mathematical expression using English with the following specifi...
Challenge Make a program that takes input of a string and abbreviate it. All letters of an abbreviation are capitalized, so keep that in mind. Whitespace, numbers and non-English characters ar...
Background A House of I I went on an adventure Grabbed resources and making deeds Like start to work on the materials To build the shelter I need It was a marvelous one At least in the eyes ...
Given two strings, I define their product as follows: If any of the two strings is empty, the product is the empty string. If the second string consists of a single character, the result ...
Two words are anagrams of each other if the letters of one can be reordered to spell the other; e.g. ADOBE and ABODE are anagrams. An alternate way of describing it is that both words contain the s...
Challenge You will be given a string and an ascii art as input. The string must be placed above the ascii art, and centered based on its longest line. The text BOTTOM TEXT must be placed below...
