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How about one of these, requires you to solve a puzzle to turn off.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathe-alarm-clock/id82353291...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wroclawstu...

Otherwise I also remember some friends back in the days having an alarm clock that shoots away a thing in the other corner of the room, requires you to fetch it to disable the alarm.

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I tried that one for iOS and it requires you to enable the alarm every night manually (which often I just forgot to) and I COULD solve some of them without even remembering I did later :-(

My current setup is an alarm clock with an actual bell that is noisy as fsck. Yes, an old school alarm clock :-(

Balance the alarm clock on the edge of a tin pot, so that when it goes off, it will just fall inside and make a bunch more noise.

this app has quite a few dismissal methods designed to do similar things to all these examples, like having to scan a QR code (which is optimally taped to your bathroom mirror to force you to get out of bed), having to solve a brain teaser based around the Stroop Test, and having to shake your phone several times to shut the alarm off

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