Problem 556. Stuff the Board

Created by Ned Gulley

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Varoujan on 7 Jun 2015

The problem description says the output array elements can be in any order but the test cases seem to prefer some unknown order. Solution 682952 produces an array with same elements as the actual solution but the tests fail. Need a better description of the output desired or a more robust test suite.

Jan Orwat on 8 Jun 2015

Solution 682952 produces correct array, but doesn't pass it to the output.

mohammad z on 7 Nov 2016

awesome question

Vivek Singh on 27 Jun 2018

Good Problem :)

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David Verrelli on 4 Jun 2018

This (and others, including Solution 1444556) only pass because of a mismatch between the Test Suite and the Problem Statement.

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A Jenkins on 3 Oct 2013

Sorry, I don't normally do this, but my curiosity about the whole regexp() thing finally got the better of me...

Zhengyi on 21 Mar 2018

yes, but you are blocking others from learning the optimal solution. lame

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