Staircase

A diagonal staircase in just 5 tokens! Can't get simpler than this (⌐■_■)

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#1 on the code size leaderboard!

Grid	Code Size	Leaderboard	Cycles	Leaderboard	Date
7x7x7	5	🏆 #1	5.000	#7548	2026-02-23

Solution

return x==-y

How it works

The staircase lives where x == -y. Returning true gives us WHITE (1) for free, and false gives empty. That’s it. Five tokens. Done.