Same! I was working on it for about 30 minutes trying to get it to work. One google search for 'sort by number then alphabetically' and, lo and behold, a stack overflow suggesting the hallowed LocaleCompare. Good stuff.

"This kata sucks, because my code works only on my machine" - hmmm, interesting approach.

Please read through this FAQ, you could find some helpful hints there. If you still have some specific problems, tell us about them.

Note the style of how the punctuation marks are written in the description, they're apart of the word.