Does Problem 231 Dice Black Jack work?
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Whenever I click the run button and try to submit a solution, it seems to always say "You are to enter both answer and solution source code".
Vadim, Hi!
Problem surely works but seemingly you experience strange situation with small pre-check which tries to ensure data are present on submission. I made small change, hopefully it will help (you may need to clear browser cache or perhaps simply relogin for this to apply).
for details, the behavior you see is here -
and the message appears if answerNotNeeded variable isn't set and answer field is empty. This variable is not set in
this task source but it is because answerHidden is set - and it should "secretly" set value 1 into answer field.
somewhat silly logic which is going to be slightly updated. Hence if it won't work anyway you can as workaround open browser console and type in
answerNotNeeded=true<enter>.
Sorry for this inconvenience and thanks for bringing it up!
It works for me now, thanks Rodion :)
Sadly my very complicated solution seems to time out even though it takes < 100k steps per call. I'm guessing that the 3 million step limit applies over all 49 games? Or maybe having 13-14KB of data in a bunch of strings ends up causing some other timeout check to trip.
And anyways it looks like more optimal play gets drowned out by noise, a very simple strategy for the game got me 48/49 wins, and a strategy that is known to be better did worse (like 44/49 wins). I'm assuming though you wouldn't consider it valid to try to game the RNG (e.g. by adding some randomness to my strategy and trying out different RNG seeds until I get a result I like). Actually I don't even know if for this problem using big lookup tables is considered valid either :P