Even the fixed tests are incorrect:

collect_apples([0, 1179, 655, 655, 262, 262, 1048, 655, 393, 1179, 917, 0, 1179, 0, 131, 0, 262, 917, 786, 655, 524, 0, 0, 131, 262, 131], 10)

{(False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, True, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, False, False, True, False)}
should equal
{(False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False),
 (False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, False, True, False, True),
 (False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False, True, False, True, False, False, True, False)}

The expected values sum to 7205, when there is a configuration with a sum of 7336.

at least in Python, there are no fixed / sample tests with = and - being adjacent, e.g.:

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<-=-=->