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Swap letters on a waffle grid to form words in as few moves as possible

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries, with color-coded feedback for each letter

Daily soccer puzzle where you recreate goals from an imaginary league using the fewest kicks

Since VIM seems to be inspired by efficiency, I was curious what the "most efficient" way to solve any particular challenge would be. It was really nontrivial to make significant progress on a proof based approach so it seemed like a leetcode style community ranking driven leaderboard would be a

Practice Vim motions by completing editing challenges with the fewest keystrokes; leaderboards and diffs.

Solve a daily mix of original word and logic puzzles in a newspaper-style page

Find the daily word that uses every given letter at least once, plus bonus words

N-Queens logic puzzle adding a third rule: one queen per row, column and colored region.

Combine classic Sudoku with deck-building power-up cards