# Shredder Challenge
**Domain:** Distributed problem solving / DARPA
**Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node
**Maturity:** Developed
**Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]]
## Definition
The **DARPA Shredder Challenge** was a 2011 competition to reconstruct shredded documents using computation, crowdsourcing, and hybrid methods.
## Significance
The challenge made task performance simultaneously useful output and evidence about participating teams' capabilities.
## Sources
- [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]
- [Primary or institutional source](https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2011-10-27)
## Routes
[[wiki/DARPA Network Challenge|DARPA Network Challenge]] · [[wiki/Gamified Elicitation and Selection|Gamified Elicitation and Selection]] · [[wiki/Credential Production|Credential Production]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]