Regex Golf - Unofficial Bonus Levels

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Regex Golf - Unofficial Bonus Levels

1. Subtraction Quantify with care.
2. Typist With apologies to Dr. Dvorak.
3. Addition Beauty in symmetry.
4. Anyway Old MacDonald had a farm...
5. Tic-tac-toe Don't forget the horizontals.
6. Modulus Lookahead smithwork.
7. Matryoshka Pay attention to detail.
8. Euclid Greed is good.
9. Latin squares No mathematics; just logic and reasoning.
10. Dominoes Caution! Rabbit holes.

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Each problem has a robust solution (can be done "without cheating"), unlike "A man, a plan", "Glob", and "Balance" from the original set. In each case, the pattern should be unambiguous. A solution to a problem is considered robust if it conforms to this pattern for any string matching the problem's domain regex:

Level	Domain regex
Subtraction	^x+ - x+ = x+$
Typist	^[a-z]+$
Addition	^x+ \+ x+ = x+ \+ x+$
Anyway	^[a-z]+$
Tic-tac-toe	^[\.OX]{3} [\.OX]{3} [\.OX]{3}$
Modulus	^x+ % x+ = x+$
Matryoshka	^([a-z]+ )*[a-z]+$
Euclid	^gcd\(x+, x+\) = x+$
Latin squares	^[a-z]{4} [a-z]{4} [a-z]{4} [a-z]{4}$
Dominoes	^([0-6]{2} )*[0-6]{2}$

Please refrain from posting solutions here until the thread is well underway (20+ posts). Questions, total scores, and gentle hints are ok.

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A warm thank you to Davidebyzero for helping me refine each of these problems, and for coming up with some brilliant solutions. Our testing and development notes can be found here and here (caution: spoilers).

I've made a meta-post on xkcd forums, asking what subforum my actual post should go in.

Great!

Also, it'd be awesome if you could avoid posting your solutions here (maybe even avoid posting your scores) and instead, post them somewhere else with a link to them here, or post the md5sums of the solutions here.

Yes. I will delete very early comments that give solutions. If you are one of the first here, please post your total score or the md5sums of your solutions, and refrain from posting the solutions themselves until this thread is well underway. Holding back on posting individual scores would be greatly appreciated.

I hope to see 20 comments of cloak-and-dagger chat before solution lists break out.

I've been messing around with Matroyshka, and I can't come up with a definition of it that doesn't include several of the items on the "bad" list. All I can gather from the "good" list is that each successive word includes all the letters of the previous word, plus at least one more. But the "on", "sad", and "tea" bad lines also match that criteria, so I'm obviously wrong.

Welcome! :)

Yes, the difficulty in this one is more to do with pinning down the precise pattern than in building the regex or in compressing it. Focus on the "on" and "sad" lines in particular.

Good luck!