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Obfuscation refers to making code (or other information) more difficult to understand
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Rig The Lottery, but Don't Get Caught
Edit: Please note there is currently a vote to close this coding challenge due to a complaint that it may be technically violating a decade old rule for this site. There is currently a discussion in ...
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All code and no play makes 31415 a dull boy
In this crossword puzzle by Jack Lance, all the letters have been replaced by a fixed text string: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Therefore, you have ...
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Add a hidden language to a polyglot
Inspired/mostly copied but I don't think it's a dupe. Also Inspired.
In this challenge, you will create polyglots that include all languages from previous answers, and another language which you won't ...
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Peel away the layers - Robbers
This is the Robbers thread. For the Cops challenge, see here
As the robbers, your job is to crack the cops' answers. Choose an uncracked, unsafe cop answer and attempt to figure out which languages, ...
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Peel away the layers - Cops
In this cops-and-robbers challenge, robbers must crack cop answers by finding out which languages the cops used.
This is the Cops thread. For the Robbers' challenge, see here
Cops, you are to write a ...
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WTF.js Obfuscator
Background
One of the commonly meme'd aspects of javascript is its incredibly loose type coercion that allows for +!![]+[+[]] == '10' this technique can also be ...
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Overlapping Polyglots
Unlike many C&R challenges, this does not require a separate robbers post; the goal of the robbers is to crack the previous answer and then post a new one as a cop.
As answerers, you will write a ...
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The Programming Language Quiz, Mark II - Robbers
Cops challenge
The Robbers' Challenge
Find a vulnerable answer. That is, an answer which hasn't been cracked yet and which isn't safe yet either.
Crack it by figuring out its language. That is, find ...
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The Programming Language Quiz, Mark II - Cops
A repost of this challenge. Meta discussion. Sandbox post. Body of the question similar to the original
Robber's challenge
This cops and robbers is now (08/03/2018) closed to further competing cop ...
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Cops and Robbers: Redacted Primality (Robbers' Thread)
This is the robbers' thread. The cops' thread is here.
Your challenge is to take an uncracked submission from the cops' thread and try to find the original unredacted program. Please comment on the ...
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Cops and Robbers: Redacted Primality (Cops' Thread)
This challenge was originally sandboxed by Magic Octopus Urn; I adopted and posted it with his permission.
This is the cops' thread. The robbers' thread is here.
The challenge
Step One: Write a ...
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The greedy regex (cops)
This is the cops' post. The robbers' is here.
You make a program and a regex.
For most inputs, one of the following happens:
the regex doesn't match, and the program returns a falsey value
the regex ...
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PPCG Jeopardy: Robbers
How well do you know the site? Let's find out.
This is a cops-and-robbers challenge. Cop's thread.
As a robber, you need to:
Find a non-deleted, non-closed challenge that matches a cop's ...
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PPCG Jeopardy: Cops
How well do you know the site? Let's find out.
This is a cops-and-robbers challenge. Robber's thread.
As a cop, you need to:
Find a non-deleted, non-closed challenge on this site to answer. The ...
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Proving you are the best StackExchange-User [closed]
Write one/two program(s)/function(s):
The first one should return a truthy value if given your Stack Exchange username.
~~Optional~~
An obfuscated one (as explained below) that does the same thing.
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