Your solution looks very interesting. Could you explain how it works?

WTF? How does that even work?

Gz on the clean solution, btw

Thank you!

So it is an inline conditional... here is an article explaining it better than I could.. :)

https://www.natashatherobot.com/ruby-shorthands-if-then-else/

I'm a total noob at this. Would someone please tell me how this works? I've tried googling colon and questionmark, but I haven't found a satisfactory explanation.

Aah that's clever. I have one question though:

So if a condition is not met the first time a ternary statement is
called, and there's recurssion on the false side, would it ever go
through the true side again? (i.e. would it just keep going back to
the recursive point, which is the false side in this case?).