Hi, it's intentional. :) Your code contains str and the check is case insensitive. As you're not the first who mentioned this, I'll add strip to restricted words even if this isn't necessary. Btw. there's still a way how you can use strip.

Regards,

suic

I feel that mixing with cutting waplayer, would be a better choice for making this kata harder.

Hi @llamatarianism. I consider your suggestions and appeared another problems with my solution in Python3. Python 2 and Python 3 have many differences. I will consider to point out for all my future katas that my solution are in Python 3.
If you want to give me suggestions that will work for Python 3 I'll give you extra points. :)

Yes I assume generally the author will give his kata an inital rank then leave it to moderator for subsequent adjustments...
I mean if... if tripping the number-to-string part from this kata then possibly it doesn't deserve current rank any more...
Of course, that won't happen! :)

The kyu is not given by the author but by a moderator!

make it return a number then downgrade it to 8kyu :)
I think there still exists tricks can be explored to implement the map from number to string.