In order to draw out the suspense, we're gonna start with a handful of other prizes!

Other Prizes

Advent of Playing With Your Toys

Title	Post/Thread	Username
Plays With Smartwatches	[2022 Day 1] [Monkey C] Solving AoC on my Garmin Forerunner 235	u/yawnick
Plays With TI-83s	[2022 Day 1][Z80 Assembly] Going to try to solve this year on a TI83	u/MarcusTL12
Plays With Game Boys	2022 Day 1 Solution Megathread	u/NiliusJulius
Plays With FPGAs	[2022 Day 1 (both)] [Haskell Clash] Twenty days later, Advent of Firmware working! Program an FPGA to make dedicated hardware!	u/IamfromSpace
Plays With PS/2s	[2022 Day 2] [C] It wouldn't be a DOS program without some gratuitous output.	u/JohnGabrielUK
Plays With Factorio	[2022 Day 02 (both parts)][Factorio] This one was relatively easy. Spirit is still high.	u/jvandillen
Plays With Apple IIgs	[2022 Day 3 (Part 2)] [Applesoft BASIC] Should I have brought a different computer for the expedition?	u/clyne0
Plays With Arduinos	[2022 day 3][C] Rucksacks on an Arduino Uno	u/ednl
🄵	[2022 Day 8 # 1] First difficulty	u/Colin-McMillen
Plays With Neopixels	[2022 Day #10] Was made for this screen	u/0100100000010001
Plays With Screen Readers	[2022 Day 10 (Part 2)] Today's puzzle not screenreader accessible	u/xsailerx
Plays With Arduinos	[2022 Day 10] Any Arduino fans here?	u/jablan
Plays With MSPaint + PowerPoint	[2022 Day 12] Apparently long fall boots are standard equipments for elves	u/xupej04m3
Plays With 3D Printers	[2022 Day #12] 3D printed the puzzle input and final route	u/ryansturmer
Plays With 3D Printers	[2022 Day 18] 3D printed obsidian chunk	u/jstanley0_
Plays With Pen Plotters	[2022 Day 18] Isometric plot of the lava droplet (made with an AxiDraw pen plotter)	u/ruuddotorg
Plays With The Box The Toy Came In	[2022 Day 22 part 2] It's a good thing I saved the box from this yoyo…	u/mayoff

Visualizations

Title	Post/Thread	Username
AAA Title	[2022 Day 1 (Part 1)] Terminal Visualization! Counting Calories...	u/naclmolecule
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter	[2022 Day 1] Solution illustrated by elves carrying large trays of butter.	u/elmusfire
👍	[2022 Day 2 Part 1][Nim] Using Emojis to Visualize all games of Rock-Paper-Scissors in Nim	u/mrHtheGreat
60 FPS Sugar Magnate	[2022 Day1][C# + Raylib] Peak Sugar [60 FPS]	u/p88h
Now I Want A Hamburger	[2022 Day 4] Mount of wasted effort	u/nbardiuk
ASCII Crane Operator	[2022 Day 5 #1] Small terminal Python animation for part 1 of Day 5, never tried "drawing" on terminal before but quite proud of the result !	u/MrAntex
*horrified OSHA noises*	[2022 Day 5] Do I need to submit my answer right side up?	u/exclamationmarek
Crates, Voxel Blocks; Same Thing	[2022 Day 5] My minecraft turtles worked very hard on this one	u/hellvampire
Boxen Go beep boop	[2022 day 6] Frequency bins for Tuning Trouble	u/ednl
Frequency Scanner	[2022 Day 6] Open Hailing Frequencies	u/Boojum
Not Sure If Visualization or WinDirStat	[2022 Day 7] A random directory of random blobs	u/seligman99
We Need To Go Deeper	[2022 Day 8] Tree house visualization with Tree JS (!)	u/lars-erik-bleedo
Excellent Implementation of Visualization Rules	[2022 Day 10 (Part 2)] [JavaScript] Interactive browser visualization (PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING!)	u/simonlydell
That's Not What Excel Is For!	[2022 Day 12] Time for some Excel, just because we can	u/pngipngi
That'sss A Nice Visssualization You Have There	[2022 Day 12 (Part 2)] in Minecraft	u/Nnnes
Advent of Minecraft Zombies	[2022 Day 12 Part 1] I tested whether Minecraft Zombies can solve Advent of Code pathfinding problems	u/Kawigi
Sandy Claus	[2022 Day 14, Part 2] One very sandy Christmas	u/seligman99
ASCII Elephant Animator	[2022 Day 17] [Python] Playing a familiar-ish game in the terminal!	u/naclmolecule
Best Worst Game of Tetris Ever	[2022 Day 17 (Part 1)] Didn't even score any lines...	u/Perska_
What An Airhead	[2022 Day 18 (Part 2)] trapped air	u/Ok-Curve902
Fold... Unfold... Fold... Unfold...	[2022 Day 22 Part 2] Interactive visualisation	u/Eutro864
ASCII Borg: Resistance is Futile	[2022 Day 22] Trip around the ASCII Cube	u/p88h

Craziness

Title	Post/Thread	Username
My Little Pony Is Now a Programming Language	2022 Day 1 Solution Megathread	u/CCC_037
HTML Is Now A Programming Language	2022 Day 1 Solution Megathread	u/skimmet
Synthesizers Are Now A Programming Language	[2022 Day 02 (Part1)] [Bitwig] A RPS scoring system made with a modular synth	u/Iain_M_Norman
CSS Is Now A Programming Language	[2022 Day 4][CSS+HTML] csS iS nOT a pROGrAMmiNg langUage :P Should I continue?	u/kap89
Advent of Code Is Now A Programming Language	[2022 Day 4] Using AoC to visualize AoC	u/Kattoor
AoC Inputs Are Now A Programming Language?	[2022 Day 7] Using the input as its own solution	u/FancyGazelle3936
Calm Down There, Satan	Hardcore - Mode	u/ffrkAnonymous
Why Would You Do This To Yourself	[2022 Day 1][Brainf*ck] because why not	u/nicuveo
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO YOURSELF	[2022 Day 10][Brainf*ck] one last?	u/nicuveo
ಠ_ಠ	[2022 Day 09 part 1][Brainf*ck] a detailed explanation	u/nicuveo
Coding Poet Laureate	2022 Day 6 Solution Megathread	u/DFreiberg
He Is The Very Model Of A Modern Major-Poet	2022 Day 11 Solution Megathread	u/DFreiberg
Chops Potatoes With A Zweihander	2022 Day 2 Solution Megathread	u/Unusual-Form-77
Relevant Username	2022 Day 2 Solution Megathread	u/Bad-Coder-69
Needs to Watch The Matrix	2022 Day 2 Solution Megathread	u/Smylers
Heinous (Ab)use of Git	[2022 Day 5] CrateMover 9001 powered by Git + Bash	u/OsipXD
award ...kinda	2022 Day 8 Solution Megathread	u/wzkx
Playable Rope Snek	[2022 Day 9] I made a playable snake clone using the elf rope physics!	u/flapje1
Yo, Dawg, I Heard You Like Assembly	[2022 Day 10] Cross-assembler from Elvish assembly to x86_64	u/JustinHuPrime
A Bad Apple	[2022 Day 10] Bad Apple played on today's machine	u/RocketChase
Reverse Engineer	[2022, Day 10, Part 2] The compiler that goes Beep Beep	u/seligman99
Double Your Merriment	[2022 Day 15] I cannot wrap my head around how unlikely it was to get the exact same rank on part 1 as I did part 2, with over two hours of time between.	u/TheDrlegoman
Cookie Blueprint Clicker	[2022 Day 19] ...except it's an idle/incremental game!	u/lazyzefiris

Community Participation

Title	Post/Thread	Username
Unofficial AoC Surveyor	Unofficial AoC 2022 Survey Results!	u/jeroenheijmans
Never Too Late To Start	[2015 Day 3 (Part 2) [C++] Code Review, Learning.	u/dr3d3d
Cryptocurrency Malware Assassin	[2022 Day 3] Something weird with copy-pasting	u/kowasaur
M'Squid *tips beret*	[2021 Day 4] Artwork	u/timewarpper
Rebel Without A Claus	[2022 Day 5] For all those moaning about parsing vertical stacks	u/DeFlaaf
This Is The Way	Is it okay if I continue with tutorials and explanations?	u/Mumbleton
Successfully Completing a Mod Challenge	[2022 Day 8] Exploring the Forest in Minecraft + mod challenge	u/BluePsychoRanger
Senpai of Maths	[2022 Day 11] On the s̵p̵o̵i̵l̵e̵r̵ math involved	u/MichalMarsalek
Advent of Visualization	[2022 Day 14] Be like	u/mvrelgrande
Come For The Falling Sand, Stay For The Napalm	[2022 Day 14] My falling sand visualization video	u/ChucklesTheBeard
OP Delivers	[2022 Day 18] [Minecraft] A lovely bauble	u/AllanTaylor314
Evolution Complete	[2022 Day 19] I think I know what tomorrow's challenge will be	u/SLiV9
Requires Documentation	2022 Day 19 Solution Megathread	u/DFreiberg
Dynamic Programmer	2022 Day 19 Solution Megathread	u/dannybres

Y'all are awesome. Keep being awesome! <3

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Advent of Code 2022 MisTILtoe Elf-ucators

Rules and all submissions are here: AoC 2022:🌿🍒 MisTILtoe Elf-ucation 🧑‍🏫

Thank you to the magnificent folks who participated this year! As promised, y'all got your silver for participation. And now, without further ado, your winners!

Teachers (aka community favorites)

In alphabetical order:

Title	Teacher
25 days in 25 languages	u/EatonMesss
A Video Guide to Speedcoding	u/jonathan_paulson
A language a day keeps the senior dev' away	u/Zaorhion_
AOC on the 1989 Game Boy	u/NiliusJulius
Advent of Animations	u/Boojum
Advent of Poetry 2022	u/DFreiberg
Advent(ures) of Code - Edition 2022	u/Key__Strokes
Doing it like it's 1989: on the Apple //c	u/Colin
Let's Visualize!	u/TenViki
Solving AoC Puzzles on my Garmin watch	u/yawnick
The Beginner's Guide to Advent of Code 2022	u/jcbbjjttt

Enjoy your Reddit Silver^1 and have a happy New Year!

Professors

In a surprise plot twist this year, the final vote totals have two pairs of folks tied for top 3, so we're gonna have five professors! Congratulations! You'll have to compete for tenure amongst yourselves...

Title	Professor
Advent of Animations	u/Boojum
Advent of Poetry 2022	u/DFreiberg
A Video Guide to Speedcoding	u/jonathan_paulson
Doing it like it's 1989: on the Apple //c	u/Colin-McMillen
The Beginner's Guide to Advent of Code 2022	u/jcbbjjttt

Enjoy your Reddit Gold^1 and have a happy New Year!

Senpai Supreme

And finally, just like in Rock Paper Scissors, there can only ever be one winner, and there is indeed one epic-level elf-ucator this year. Please welcome your Senpai Supreme of 2022:

u/Boojum for their truly magnificent Advent of Animations!

Enjoy your Reddit Platinum^1 and have a happy New Year!

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^1 Since there's so many awards to give out, I will award all metals after this post goes live. I'll update when I've completed all awardings. All awards have been given out! Let me know if I've somehow overlooked somebody.

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Thank you all for playing Advent of Code this year and on behalf of u/topaz2078, u/Aneurysm9, the beta-testers, and the rest of AoC Ops, we wish you a very Merry Christmas (or a very merry Sunday!) and a Happy New Year!