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This is a puzzle kata. It's intentionally more tricky than a normal kata and will require you to think outside the box a little.

This is a troll kata, there is nothing to realize except that it is a troll kata. Don't try to find regularitys in the task itsself, you need to look at the tests so get the solution. This is complete bs

half an hour of looking at this bullshit and I am still at a loss as to where the regularity is... I am beginning to think this is just a troll kata

I was gonna do the math for you, but after seeing your C# code, I will simply hint to you that: Step 1 & 2 should be done first & break the loop only in Step 3 - try to count by hand!

this is incorrect. random test can provide numbers of the list in the description itself that are not apple.
69 and 94 are examples that seem to regularly hit errors.

Fixed in this fork

ruby random tests are giving wrong values, including the country name, e.g.

"China" => "China,54,32,44"  # instead of just "54,32,44"

Thank you, it works now.

This is not an issue with the kata, your code is mutating the input. Try printing the original input right before you return to see what I mean.

Testing for [55, 11], 3 should equal 4 in random test cases, python. If I add an item to a list with length 2, then the length expected should be 3. Issue occurs in all random test cases.

This kata has been approved with that spec about eight years and five thousand solutions ago, and it was intentional. It's not going to be changed. Closing.

this would break if there are multiple consecutive spaces