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Puzzle Part One: This year, Santa brought little Bobby Tables a set of wires and bitwise logic gates! Unfortunately, little Bobby is a little under the recommended age range, and he needs help assembling the circuit. Each wire has an identifier (some...

Puzzle Part One: Because your neighbors keep defeating you in the holiday house decorating contest year after year, you've decided to deploy one million lights in a 1000x1000 grid. Furthermore, because you've been especially nice this year, Santa has...

Puzzle Part One Santa needs help figuring out which strings in his text file are naughty or nice. A nice string is one with all of the following properties: It contains at least three vowels (aeiou only), like aei, xazegov, or aeiouaeiouaeiou. It c...

Puzzle, Part One: Santa needs help mining some AdventCoins (very similar to bitcoins) to use as gifts for all the economically forward-thinking little girls and boys. To do this, he needs to find MD5 hashes which, in hexadecimal, start with at least ...

Puzzle Part One: Santa is delivering presents to an infinite two-dimensional grid of houses. He begins by delivering a present to the house at his starting location, and then an elf at the North Pole calls him via radio and tells him where to move ne...

The Puzzle Part One: The elves are running low on wrapping paper, and so they need to submit an order for more. They have a list of the dimensions (length l, width w, and height h) of each present, and only want to order exactly as much as they need....
