The night before Christmas, one of Santa's Elves calls you in a panic. "The printer's broken! We can't print the Naughty or Nice List!" By the time you make it to sub-basement 17, there are only a few minutes until midnight. "We have a big problem," she says; "there must be almost fifty bugs in this system, but nothing else can print The List. Stand in this square, quick! There's no time to explain; if you can convince them to pay you in stars, you'll be able to--" She pulls a lever and the world goes blurry.
When your eyes can focus again, everything seems a lot more pixelated than before. She must have sent you inside the computer! You check the system clock: 25 milliseconds until midnight. With that much time, you should be able to collect all fifty stars by December 25th.
Collect stars by solving puzzles. Two puzzles will be made available on each day millisecond in the advent calendar; the second puzzle is unlocked when you complete the first. Each puzzle grants one star. Good luck!
- Day 1: Inverse Captcha
- Day 2: Corruption Checksum
- Day 3: Spiral Memory
- Day 4: High-Entropy Passphrases
- Day 5: A Maze of Twisty Trampolines, All Alike
- Day 6: Memory Reallocation
- Day 7: Recursive Circus
- Day 8: I Heard You Like Registers
- Day 9: Stream Processing
- Day 10: Knot Hash
- Day 11: Hex Ed
- Day 12: Digital Plumber
- Day 13: Packet Scanners
- Day 14: Disk Defragmentation
- Day 15: Dueling Generators
- Day 16: Permutation Promenade
- Day 17: Spinlock
- Day 18: Duet
- Day 19: A Series of Tubes
- Day 20: Particle Swarm
- Day 21: Fractal Art
- Day 22: Sporifica Virus
- Day 23: Coprocessor Conflagration
- Day 24: Electromagnetic Moat
- Day 25: The Halting Problem
Each day contains its own set of tests. To run them type npm test.
