What language were you using? It might be a problem with the Kata itself.

Excuse my lack of clean code and test statements, I was frusterated when coding. I'm sure it's a lack of experience in... something... on my behalf, but I don't know what.

I have the same situation. Additionally everything is working fine when I use another compiler...

I am so utterly confused at this kata. I cannot solve this for the life of me, and have no clue why. I get the random tests correct with every variation of my code, but never the fixed tests. I know it's a logical issue, but I can't figure this out, I give up. This has caused too much stress in my life lol.