Oh, I thought makeNew was the amount of leftOvers each case started with. I'll try and solve it again, Thank you very much!

It seems that you are misunderstood makeNew. For example, makeNew=3 means you can use 3 leftovers to make a new candle.

you can paste your code here and mark it as spoiler ;-)

For some reason my algorithm only works for the first sample test where Test.assertEquals( candles(5,2) , 9).
I have coded exactly the algorithm that is described in the assignment.

Is there any way I can share my code, so perhaps someone can see if it contains any errors? I've spent ages looking at it and I can't find any mistakes.
Could the test be wrong?

Thanks in advance