76 Yacht or dice poker - minor error in problem statement
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There is an error in the statement of the problem (not that it really matters in terms of the solution complexity.
A small straight is actually a sequence of 4 dice, e.g. 1 2 3 4
A big straight is any sequence of all 5 dice, e.g. 1 2 3 4 5
Bill H
Bill, thanks!
Your hint is so curious that I searched through wiki (as I vaguely remember such "shorter" straights). It seems like you are correct to the very details:
In Yacht both straights are a sequence of five (Big Straight is 2-3-4-5-6, Little Straight is 1-2-3-4-5).
Yahtzee introduced the sequence of four straight (the Small Straight)
Bad thing is that "small straight" is used in the checker code and thus we have several hundreds of solution employing it. Let's add the note to the problem statement, but without changing the checker to prevent all them becoming broken :(
UPD: very funny/stupid - I can't update problem statement right now - server complains with the same "Not Acceptable" :) I'll fix this soon, hopefully.