About this puzzle

Deadlines — practice the decision, scored against the optimum

What does the Deadlines puzzle teach?

Schedule unit jobs before their deadlines to maximize profit — highest-profit-first, latest free slot. Earliest-deadline-first chases count, not profit.

Why do interviews ask about this?

Job sequencing with deadlines is the scheduling interview — maximize profit, not job count, with the highest-profit-first matroid greedy.

How is it scored?

The engine computes the provably-optimal answer for the exact instance you played (dynamic programming, shortest-path, or exhaustive search — never a heuristic) and scores your attempt as a percentage of it. No login needed to see your score.