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Tom's Data Onion: A Programming Puzzle In a Text File https://www.tomdalling.com/toms-data-onion/
Sun 20 Nov 2022 04:30:00 PM PST archive.org

At the bottom of this file you will find a payload -- a blob of data that has been obfuscated in some way. When it is decoded correctly, the payload will turn into another text file with another puzzle. There are many puzzles wrapped inside each other, like a matryoshka doll, or the layers of an onion.

You will need to write code to do the decoding. This can be done using any programming language.

Every layer clearly explains how to decode its payload. These are puzzles with deterministic solutions, like Sudoku, not riddles. I'm a software developer, not the sphinx of Thebes.

There is a little bit of educational value in each layer. In order to progress, you will need to learn and use computery concepts like bitwise operations, encodings, cryptography, error detection, and so on.

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satwikkansal/wtfpython https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
Tue 16 Feb 2021 01:55:46 PM PST archive.org

Here's a fun project attempting to explain what exactly is happening under the hood for some counter-intuitive snippets and lesser-known features in Python.

While some of the examples you see below may not be WTFs in the truest sense, but they'll reveal some of the interesting parts of Python that you might be unaware of. I find it a nice way to learn the internals of a programming language, and I believe that you'll find it interesting too!

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You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube https://www.youcandothecube.com/solve-it/3-x-3-solution
Thu 13 Aug 2020 06:24:19 PM PDT archive.org

How to solve the 3x3 Rubik's Cube. Go back a couple of pages and you'll find the algorithms for the other variants.

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Open Solomon's Key by mdodis https://mdodis.itch.io/open-solomons-key
Thu 25 Jun 2020 08:33:51 PM PDT archive.org

Somebody's writing a clean-room implementation of Solomon's Key for the NES. All of the original levels are already implemented. Theoretically cross-platform. Doesn't quite work yet but it's getting there. Includes a level editor so you can build your own levels. Seems to have some tricks to getting it to run but I haven't tried them yet.

Github: https://github.com/mdodis/OpenSolomonsKey

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System Syzygy https://mdsteele.games/syzygy/
Sun 18 Nov 2018 10:14:37 PM PST archive.org

System Syzygy is a story and a puzzle game, in the style of Cliff Johnson's classic Macintosh games The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three, and of Andrew Plotkin's System's Twilight. As you move through the game, solving a variety of different kinds of puzzles, the game tells the story a piece at a time. By the end of the game, all the different puzzles and pieces of the story come together into a single meta-puzzle.

Github: https://github.com/mdsteele/syzygy

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Klaus Schmeh’s List of Encrypted Books – Klausis Krypto Kolumne http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/klaus-schmehs-list-of-encrypted-books/
Fri 25 May 2018 02:24:38 PM PDT archive.org
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