With "SACRAMENTARIANS" as the guessed word:

• the 'S' in the final position matches the S in both potential solutions, thus the 'G' in the final spot
• 2 A's in the guessed word but wrong position, thus 'Y', but the last 'A' is extra, so '-'
• 1 of the R's in the guessed word matches the occurance in the potential solution but wrong position. The other 'R' is extra
• same for T
• 'E' and 'I' should be straightforward.

Yes, unless that letter is already accounted for in the guess, please see the special rule at the bottom of the kata description for the explanation.

Hi. The feedback for CAULK given the guess ALOED would be YY--- because of the misplaced A & L. Therefore, while guessing SHAKE would yield --YY- for the word CAULK, it fails to match the condition ALOED/Y----.

Pretty straight-forward kata. Haven't gotten close to timing out as others have mentioned though total time did fluctuate quite a bit up by up to 4x. I could've been lucky with the random tests.

Fun twist on a textbook problem. Thank you!

You may want to rethink how you process each word. To put it in perspective, though not many at this point, almost all passing solutions finished under 5 seconds, over half of which under 2!

Good luck!

Because if it were valid, the feedback for SACRAMENTARIANS would've been different. Explaining further would be a spoiler, and figuring out why and coding it is typically the last step for solving this kata.

As a chess player I was really confused by this kata — Looking at the board, I instinctively thought we had to move the pawn down the board while king was also responding in an undefined manner. Am I correct to assume we are just promoting the pawn in place? If so, I recommend emphasizing that point.

I've moved the sample test word list out of preloaded into the visible code.

Also added type hinting in the initial solution.

Thank you for the prompt resolution :)

TY for removing if it was actually submitted (though I pretty sure I double checked to make sure it wasn't posted)

So I have to write a diff solution if I wanted to attempt a lower-level kata each time?

I used the solution but I don't think I submitted it. Or is it still visible even if the attempt passed?