Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023/Computer Science

Computer Science is one of rounds from Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023. TO DO

Description

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|    .d8888b.   .d8888b.   .d8888888b.  8888888b.  888     888  |
|   d88P  Y88b d88P  Y88b d88P"   "Y88b 888   Y88b 888     888  |
|   888    888 Y88b.      888  d8b  888 888    888 888     888  |
|   888         "Y888b.   888  888  888 888   d88P 888     888  |
|   888            "Y88b. 888  888bd88P 8888888P"  888     888  |
|   888    888       "888 888  Y8888P"  888        888     888  |
|   Y88b  d88P Y88b  d88P Y88b.     .d8 888        Y88b. .d88P  |
|    "Y8888P"   "Y8888P"   "Y88888888P" 888         "Y88888P"   |
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+====== PUZZLE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE =======+

### Inputs to Puzzles ###
Each of the non-meta puzzles in this department take one word as input. This input word changes how the puzzle solves, and therefore instead of a puzzle having a single answer, a puzzle has a single answer for a particular input. When submitting answers you will need to select the input word and provide the appropriate output word (aka answer).

### Rate Limiting ###
Guesses are per puzzle, not per input. So if you guess a lot quickly on an input of foo, then you'll be rate-limited for an input of bar as well.

### Function Calls ###
Most of the puzzles involve "function calls" to other puzzles; these look like: CLUES(born). For the purposes of solving the puzzle, in this example, the function call should be replaced with the output of the CLUES puzzle when given an input of "born".

List of Puzzles(ls puzzles/)

• Crafting Linux User Error Strings - CLUES.puzz
• Effective Mac Process Thread Yielding - EMPTY.puzz
• Log In Security Testing - LIST.puzz
• Locally Operating Globally Interconnected Computers - LOGIC.puzz

Gimmick explanationEvery puzzle except EMPTY calls above four excluding itself as function.

• Computer Science Meta - META.puzz

List of Inputs

 

• CLUES(input):
  • LOGIC(candle)
  • LIST(garter)
  • EMPTY(gnu)
• LIST(input):
  • EMPTY(cyst)
  • LOGIC(sloan)
  • CLUES(firm)
• LOGIC(input):
  • LIST(lover)
  • EMPTY(frayed)
  • CLUES(born)
• Meta
  • CLUES(LIST(gush))
  • LOGIC(EMPTY(pawn))
  • EMPTY(CLUES(lock))
  • LIST(LOGIC(quayd))