[vyper91]

As I have a working knowledge of SQL this was very simple but my friends who use it sparsely in their financial jobs had a blast racing each other.

This type of gamification is awesome and as someone who loves coding but doesn't find Sudoku's or whatever very enjoyable, I would love a place I could do little coding challenges like this in break times!

Anyone know of any? I'm thinking "Escape Rooms" via coding could be a big thing!

[PascLeRasc]

Here's a super fun one where you SSH into different servers and have to use Bash/unix tools to find clues to get to the next one: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/

[ehou]

My guess is when you don't make it a hard core coding thing but more of a general search quest it would be more succesful. Like in this case: you need to have a search function / filter options on those tables. Even transfering it to Excel (the horror) would increase the target population with huge factor.

[bbaumgar]

This only applies during December, but https://adventofcode.com/ is a fun experience! Most puzzles range from 30 minutes to 3 hours from start to finish.

[codezero]

I was thinking of bringing this challenge into a team meeting. How fast were folks able to solve it on average?

Answering my own question, 10-20 minutes if you're pretty basic at SQL :)