10/2K: SUITCASE won by Alex Huysegoms | Fit an item into a suitcase |
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05/2K: PAHTUM won by Gunnar Andersson | Place X's and O's on a board to form lines |
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12/99: WORDSEARCH won by Jaco Cronje | Find words in a grid of letters |
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09/99: POWERSAW won by Pavel Ouvarov and Frederic van der Plancke | Cut a board into equal size pieces |
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05/99: MOO won by Frederic van der Plancke | Guess the word I'm thinking of |
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12/98: QUILTS won by Ben Nye | Construct a quilt from multi-colored squares |
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6/98: SCENIC TOUR won by Chad Hurwitz | Find the shortest and longest paths across a terrain map |
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2/98: ELBONIA LOTTERY won by Doug Jones | Buy minimum number of tickets to guarantee a win in a 7-ball lottery |
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10/97: INVERSE BOGGLE won by Tim Ruhl | fit as many words as possible into a 5x5 square using Boggle rules |
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06/97: SHOWDOWN was a tie between Mike Anderson and Don Kirkby | head-to-head competition to reach the opponents home base |
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04/97: PEGGED won by Gerhard Lutz | a peg-jumping game - remove all the pegs from the board |
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12/96: RESET won by the team of Bill Burley and Arthur Goldstein | making your odometer show all different numbers |
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08/96: AIMLESS won by Mihai Badoiu | wander through a 10 story building and try to go everywhere |
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04/96: CROZZLE won by Franz Korntner | create a crossword puzzle from a word list |
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01/96: KNIGHTCRAWLER won by Chad Hurwitz | traveling salesman and a knight's tour |
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09/95: CHOMP won by Andre Wilhelmus | programs compete against each other to eat cookies from a checkerboard |
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05/95: LOYD won by Stan Peijffers | solve a sliding number pocket puzzle |
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01/95: PRIME TIME won by Allan WIlks | find prime numbers in a boggle-square |
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09/94: SEND MORE MONEY won by Bill Tanenbaum | solve word addition problems by substituting numbers for letters |
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06/94: SHUFFLE, CUT, AND FLIP won by Jim Roche | unshuffle a deck of cards |
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03/94: SCRABBLE SQUARE won by Neil Weinstock | make words from scrabble letters |
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01/94: BOXING MATCH won by Palith Balakrishnabati | programs compete to capture area in the playing area |
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10/93: ODOMETER FUN won by Vincent Goffin | make a straight from your odometer |
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08/93: MR. NOISE won by Scott Kennedy | spellchecker for numbers |
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06/93: CATS AND DOGS won by Julius Collins | change a letter at a time to change one word to another |
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03/93: AMAZING MAZE won by Debbie Brown | solve a maze in the shortest number of moves |
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01/93: NUMBERS GAME won by David Thomson | programs compete to subtract numbers without reaching zero |
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There were a few before 1993 ... when the contest was very local. But I'm holding these back since I may end up using them in the future!