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Re:The $5000 Compression Challenge by sjwright on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:48AM (#9165228)
> If you design an impossible game, the only possible thing for anyone to do is to break it.

Which is the Kobayashi Maru in a nutshell. In that fictional case, Kirk was disqualified but also received a commendation.

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Re:The $5000 Compression Challenge by qbrass on Sunday March 08, 2015 @10:36AM (#9165686)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kobayashi_Maru_%28Star_Tre...

I don't know if the novel is canon, but it ought to be.

Kirk beat it by cheating, Scotty beat it legitimately, then proved that what he did only worked in the simulation.

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