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Mildly interesting challenge:
There is a new internet community game taking off called Twitch Plays Pokemon. The concept is simple: set up a server that takes the next properly formatted input ("up", "down", "a button") from a chat window, and apply it - in order, with no filtering - to a copy of Pokemon Red.
This is going about as well as can be expected, with 90,000 players, about a third of whom are actively attempting to impede progress.
So, a TDT style challenge: Beat the game in the shortest number of steps
What do you mean by "communicate"? If I send a command, and you observe the result of that command on the game, we've communicated.
If that's allowed, the non-troll case is easy: Wait a random amount of time, then send a command. If yours was the first command to be sent, play the game. If someone else sends a command before you do, do nothing ever again.
Hm.
Yeah, I don't think I can remove that communication channel without breaking the game entirely. So that makes the first exercise rather trivial.