Problem 2225. Three...is a magic number.

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Jan Orwat on 10 Apr 2014

This should not work in general. It returns false-positive for consecutive 1 5 7 :-)

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Tim on 3 Mar 2014

This should not work, but test suite only requires us to check for groups of three in columns.

James on 6 Mar 2014

Thanks for noticing that...I'll edit the test suite and fix that.

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