Kata

I've updated the description. Confirm it's OK.

I would spell the details out, maybe like this:

In this Kata, two players, Alice and Bob, are playing a palindrome game. Alice starts with string1, Bob starts with string2, and the board starts out as an empty string. Alice and Bob take turns; during a turn, a player selects a letter from his or her string, removes it from the string, and appends it to the board; if the board becomes a palindrome (of length >= 2), the player wins. Alice makes the first move. Since Bob has the disadvantage of playing second, then he wins automatically if letters run out and the board is never a palindrome. Note also that each player can see the other player's letters.

The problem will be presented as solve(string1,string2). Return 1 if Alice wins and 2 it Bob wins.

Many thanks, much clearer now! Let me go solve it;)

Ok. Good luck!

The Haskell reference solution was incorrect. It should be good now.

Thanks! It works now, indeed.

No its not! It's a 6kyu for a reason.

Ask youself, what does it take for P1 to form a palindrome? And then understand that in all other scenarios, P2 must win. It's a piece of cake!

Very good. Will add it.

Let me look at it.

Hi Zed, should be good now.

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Expected: 1, instead got: 2
// take a 'v' and another 'v'

Is there some order requirments i am missing?

The description was not very clear. I have completely changed it. Let me know if it now makes sense.

Now i finally get your idea

I'd say the description could still be improved. I understood it as if each player were removing a character at a time from his/her own string to form a palindrome with the remaining letters.

However, now I see that each player is selecting letters to help build one common string until it becomes a palindrome (if possible). So I think some kind of indication that players are contributing letters to a common string would be helpful.

Thanks. I will update

I have updated the description.

I have updated the description. Let me know if it works.

Is it clear now? See the new description.

Let me look into it.

I have updated the description. Let me know if it works.

Is it clear now? See the new description.