i really should have put a bit more thinking into this - i forgot to check if the player has won

thank you for pointing that out

yup, forgot to copy paste into sample tests - thanks

I just copy-pasted my java tests - my bad. I hope this "new" version is better.

If it is too similar, I could make this a bit more complex by including both starting possibilities, resulting in 3 kata's about this puzzle:

• simplified one way
• simplified both ways
• complete puzzle

(just an idea)

good hint, when searching for similar kata's i only found "NIM - the game" (https://www.codewars.com/kata/54120de842dff35232000195, i think there is enough difference hence its call Simplified Nim)

im not sure if it is too similar,
i think the main difference is throwing exceptions (and obviously the AI goes second in this kata)

you're absolutely right
the random tests now do random stuff until they can "end" the game, and then they will win it
(now they are at least not completely useless, even tho the kata is too easy for useful random tests)

the print was, the bigger brain lag fix should be up now
(sometimes code wars is a bit bugged when a new test is released)

woops, forgot to take that out

it should be fixed now

yikes, i thought i fixed that
not containing a single word is indeed an issue.

that is intended

first of all, thank you for the feedback.

could you explain what you mean?
it is (and should be, its a 7kyu) possible that the wrong word never appears in the string

It is defined in the 2-dimensional array words that is given as an input (its a 7kyu after all).
Example:
"badword" is the wrong word and "correctword" is the correction to it
then the array would be [["badword","correctword"]]

Fixed it.
Youre right about the empty array, changed that too.
The random test already generates empty lists