Note: moving this back to draft for now; will rewrite it to avoid using eval() later

Wow, so much dislikes... just an additional proof that I'm right.

no overload for method Max takes 3 arguments — yet another painfully stupid design choice.

A few comments

1. Enjoyment: negative
2. Whichever mod decided that this kata is 6 kyu should get an intervention, because it is 4 kyu at the bare minimum.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

If the code in question doesn't use an external library (or, frankly, any non-native function) then, indeed, there is no way to modify its behavior without directly changing it (unless you switch to good ol' C and use #define).

Done (I think...?).

Python translation

The fact that, based on what the description is saying (and the tests), you are expected to modify the behavior of countdown without changing it. And that is not possible no matter what you tell me.

"Change the function without changing the function"... what a big load of BS.

"You are a great wizard, you know."

I was trying to do the same thing, but for some reason regex just refused entirely to double up the \ character.

"* you really like to challenge yourself, huh...?" - Sans