The Farmer Was Replaced

The Farmer Was Replaced

In one of ML channels I'm reading, I found a reference to the game "The Farmer Was Replaced". Here you are to write programs on a language which is quite similar to Python, but is not quite Python to solve farm puzzles.

Some of them are quite essential: to chop grass and collect hay, to grow bushes and trees and collect wood. Carrot is totally normal - you just to spend some wood to seed it. Weird things starts with pumpkins: they rot with 20% probability, but when there is a patch of ready to harvest pumpkins, they merge together and when you harvest this mega-pumpkin, you have bonus harvest.

Then things go totally astray: on the picture it's a dinosaur chasing the apple. Basically you are to program automatic pilot for the famous "snake" game.

There are also cacti. You have to sort them on two-dimensional grid in order to get bonus.

I totally like it because it gives a chance to practice medium programming tasks at the Meta/Google 20-minutes level while playing the game.

It also brought back some memories I thought I'd forgotten. I will try to share them in this channel.