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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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Draw X numbers from range Y
Inspired by this question
Task:
Given integers X and Y:
Randomly select an int in 1..Y (inclusive), X times. This selection is to be performed without replacement ...
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Roll a die in 3D
Simulate a roll of a fair die, and output the result in this ascii-art form:
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Randomly color the words
Inspired by this X post.
Write a program or function that takes a string as input and prints or otherwise renders the text with each word in a random color, e.g.:
The input will be a string of ...
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Three up to 800 & sum to 2048
(Flexibly) output 3 random integers such that:
Each number is 1 to 800 inclusive
Their sum is ...
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Flip a coin in Lost
Lost is a 2-D programming language where the start position and direction of the ip are entirely random.
Today we will be writing a Lost program which uses this randomness to simulate a coin flip.
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Find the odd one out
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The goal of this challenge is to generate and output a \$16 \times 32\$ (height \$\times\$ width) grid where all cells contain a decoy
character, except for a random single cell that ...
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Spot The Difference
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Generate two \$16 \times 16\$ grids, each initially filled with "@" symbols and spaces. Each cell in the grids should be independently filled with an "@" or a space, with ...
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3D Hide & Seek Word Puzzle
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Create a 3D word puzzle where the cube's dimensions match the length of the input word. The uppercase word (A-Z) must be validly placed within the cube in one of the fixed orientations: ...
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Yin-Yang Table Generator [closed]
I want an n*n table that is filled with black or white and the following conditions are satisfied in it:
All cells of a 2*2 square in this table should not be the same color.
All black and white ...
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Bingo Cards SVG Code [duplicate]
Generate the contents of an SVG file containing 6 bingo cards. Winner is the one that uses the shortest code. A qualifying answer has an output that can be directly pasted in a blank to get the ...
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Be big more often
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You are a manager at a large number factory. You want to show everyone your business is doing well, by showing randomly chosen samples. Unfortunately, your business is not doing that well. But ...
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XOR of independent Bernoulli variables
In probability theory, a Bernoulli variable is a random variable which has a single parameter \$p\$, and is equal to 1 with probability \$p\$, and 0 with probability \$1-p\$.
In this challenge, there ...
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Elect the Doge of Venice
The Venetian election system was... complicated.
The Great Council came together and put in an urn the ballots of all the councilors who were older than 30. The youngest councilor went to St Mark's ...
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