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Re:Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers by CountHackulus on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @02:06PM (#3420846)
The main difference between these and Project Euler is that these are far more "programming" challenges, whereas Project Euler often boils down to brute forcing a solution once you've figured out the one or two mathematical tricks to reducing the problem space.
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Re:Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers by timdellinger on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @03:00PM (#3421065)
Googling for regular expressions puzzle turns up a few more of a slightly different but related flavor.

It would be fun to develop a taxonomy and categorize the different recreational challenges that people find amusing, basing the categories on the type of "aha" and skillset required to solve it.

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