yes, you shouldnt make it so returning anything is dependent on if one triplet found is actually invalid. I believe your mistake is in making it return no valid triples based off the fact that one triple had a > b. I would reccomend making it so a!>b is a condition within the statement that checks if for a given value of a, if a is triplet so it doesnt add an invalid ( a>b triplet to the list in the first place). Unless i misunderstand your problem i think that is what needs a fix.

a, the first element of the triple, has to be the smallest side. This is not true for 1128, 846, 1410.

Remember the instructions : Bob also tries to play optimally.

In your case, Bob could take 9 cards by playing it smarter so Alice would be able to only take 4 cards.

I'll fix it now. Thanks a lot.

Doesn't make it any less stupid. My solution handles the =0 case without special code, and now I have to add some and make it uglier.

apparently, that was to make sure to handle the {input == 0} case separately...

Fixed!

@dpleshkov: Consider voting for this :) Regards, suic

Some randoms have more than 1 whitespace between words or at the start/begining of the string

Sorry, but the tests are already locked since a lot of people solved this kata. :(((

For instance, I had

'ootoguprkfwwyrtpaorss oghipretpdaagfgkauiluiptisesulqlue w' should equal ' ootoguprkfwwyrtpaorss oghipretpdaagfgkauiluiptisesulqlue w'

which doesn't make sense: should the return string be stripped or not?

I agree with amarovita. I see no way that "he has only 24 hours left" could be interpreted as "24:00:00 hours is too long".

Well, good question. Actually it has to be true, because a day is slightly longer than 86400 seconds. But in fact, Santa has to be finished before the next day begins, he has to deliver the presents within 24 hours ;)