First a random technical note. The implementation of rand guarantees that the same value cannot be returned twice in a very large number of calls. So your note about #2 and #3 is not true. If I'm free to ignore that, I get much smaller entries for those. But I'll submit entries that don't (ab)use that fact about rand.

Here is my score: 

human.pl:     87 strokes
shuffle.pl:   47 strokes
select.pl:    52 strokes
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total:       186 strokes

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Note that you might not accept my human.pl, it does have an artificial (though generous and easy to increase) limit in it. I used no modules. Here are my solutions. 
human.pl
========
%x=map{($x=lc)=~s/\d+/0
x(999-length$&).$&/ge;$_,$x}@x=<>;print
sort{$x{$a}cmp$x{$b}}@x

shuffle.pl
==========
$i=rand@x,@x[$n=@x,$i]=($x[$i],$_)for<>;print@x

select.pl
=========
$i=rand@x,@x[$n=@x,$i]=($x[$i],$_)for<>;print@x[0,1]

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In reply to Re: Golf: 3 hole golf game by tilly
in thread Golf: 3 hole golf game by theroninwins

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