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I came up with a game based on old fantasy.
In many books there was such a device - ansible - for instant communication over interstellar distances. It allowed to transmit about 6 bits per minute.
It would be possible to try to do a la hackathon, when a socket is used by teams at a speed, let's not be sadists, about 8 bits per second. On the other side of the socket sits an script language interpreter with access to some sort of data store.
Participants need to find and upload some information through this socket faster than other teams.
The main thing here, of course, should be in using the interpreter at the other end of the ansible, and not in the data upload itself, so it would be nice to make the data storage non-standard. Something like documents linked by links without access to the file system.
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The Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 Decided To Build An Ansible [Slate Star Codex]