TRICK 2015: The second Transcendental Ruby Imbroglio Contest for RubyKaigi
summary
Esoteric Ruby contest TRICK 2015 collects about 40 entries and the judges narrow them to 12 winners using MRI 2.2 as the reference runtime and simple size limits (4,096 bytes, 2,048 nonspace chars). Highlights include a gzip+base64 self‑extracting code that hides its payload, a timestamp-to-ASCII message that decodes jokes from Unix times, a surprising 194-byte SAT solver, a Sudoku/all-solutions solver embedded as data, a Collatz one‑liner that branches via regex, and a quine built without repeated evals. Most demos work though a few require trunk Ruby.
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- 0:00Introduction to TRICK 2015
- 2:49Purpose of the contest
- 13:57Awards and winning works
- 33:38Top five works overview
- 54:48Judges' final comments
- 59:06Closing and future plans
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