I’ve had the Synacor Challenge bookmarked for a couple years now, having probably found it somewhere on the Advent of Code website or subreddit. Since I’m currently taking a Computer Architecture course and I’ve been busy for the last couple days building a MIPS Pipeline Simulator for it, I figured I would give it a shot.

It started just as a way to spend some free time I had on a friday morning, but as I started unraveling the challenge’s surprises, that quickly grew to a whole weekend spent solely on it. All my code is on my GitHub, as well as a full writeup, written as I was progressing through the challenge. You can also keep reading for more info and my spoiler-free comments on it.