Small but hard programming tasks (Complete apps as opposed to Euler)

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I have a bit of free time at work and was wondering, what are some hard applications to build but which are not big?

Hopefully nothing which requires specialist knowledge but something nonetheless hard and which will boost my coding/problem-solving skills.

Thanks

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