Timeline for answer to Feedback on the Second Coding Challenge by starball
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| Jun 12, 2025 at 15:58 | comment | added | l4mpi | @Nanigashi from the challenge rules: "The board state does not need to be a board state that is legal in the game you have chosen". So it should be fine to use scrabble letters more often than allowed in the scrabble rules. Furthermore, I don't see any rule that defines consistency of game pieces etc so technically nothing disallows adding scrabble pieces to literally any other board game and writing the message with them (as in "my solution encodes a message on a monopoly board by placing letters from scrabble on the board"). | |
| Jun 9, 2025 at 0:16 | comment | added | Anon Coward | @NoDataDumpNoContribution: Your comment, for whatever reason, kicked of a chain of thought that lead to my Scrabble solution. | |
| Jun 8, 2025 at 3:45 | comment | added | Nanigashi | @NoDataDumpNoContribution, except there is an inherent limit to how many As, Bs, Cs, ..., Qs, ..., and Zs there can be on a valid Scrabble board. I'm not sure the challenge designers thought of that, though. | |
| Jun 6, 2025 at 14:32 | comment | added | General Grievance | I mean, if my answer got the "technically correct" award for last time, I think you might have a shot with that. | |
| Jun 4, 2025 at 18:13 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Scrabble would probably work well. | |
| Jun 4, 2025 at 16:56 | comment | added | starball Mod | submission: "for the nothing game. there is no board game. it encodes every possible 8-character-long string in the character set of size 1". | |
| Jun 4, 2025 at 16:44 | comment | added | kristinalustig StaffMod | Our intent was to keep it more open-ended so that people could approach it with as much simplicity or complexity as they want (like, just doing 26 characters, for example, vs supporting some much larger character set). So, there is no particular guidance for character set, you can choose what makes the most sense for your solution. | |
| Jun 4, 2025 at 16:32 | history | answered | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |