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I don't push my solutions publicly, but I made an input downloader so you can input your cookie from your browser and load (and cache) the inputs rather than commit them.

This is cool. Kudos!

You do get different inputs, but they largely share characteristics so good solutions should always work and naive ones should consistently fail.

There has been the odd puzzle where some inputs have allowed simpler solutions than others, but those have stood out.


I don't know how much they "stand out" because their frequency makes it so that the optimal global leaderboard strat is often to just try something dumb and see if you win input roulette.

if we just look at the last three puzzles: day 23 last year, for example, admitted the greedy solution but only for some inputs. greedy clearly shouldn't work (shuffling the vertices in a file that admits it causes it to fail).



That’s a worse crime, but still by no means terrorism.

And note the ‘alleged’.



This (defining terrorism such that it includes one possibly-unrelated person hitting a police officer with a hammer) is exactly the problem.


> A footman in his lordship's service stated he went into his master's bedroom [...]

isn't an example of the phrase "master bedroom".

I am also skeptical of "school house and master's bedroom". The main cottage has "four large bed rooms". Why would the "master bedroom", if it is meant to be read as it is today, be listed after the list of detached outbuildings?



Eye tracking camera in the cabin, LCD film on the windshield, it'd be like reverse matrix lights.


Weird that the one of these with no interaction got bumped rather than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45842851


I saw the other when it was first posted so it must have made the front page (or second page)



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