I guess that even calculating this limit in the first place would be very difficult 
This challenge is really interesting so thank you
For my code, the tests under the IDE execute without mistake, but after submission, I got an issue with a “validateur” :
I don’t see any “replay” buttom on my browser, chrome. Does anyone have a clue please ?
Sometimes the validators fail on this one without reasons ; retry it ^^
I try another submission with the same code and I get the same error on the same validator… So I guess there is a reason for this failure but I just can’t see it ^^’
I got an error in validators too, but found that if i disable all debug code (like printErr() and all debug logic) it passes all validators…
further is more
in code there is predefined cycle for reading fifthInput and sixthInput.
for(var i=0; i< thirdInitInput;i++){…}
so now, if I change thirdInitInput to “5” (constant) my code passes all validators,
if I return thirdInitInput variable - it fails M3L3
How can it happens!? 0o
UPDATE:
I hope to hear from authors of the problem firstly, but everybody is welcomed.
(I think it is not a spoiler, everyone can determine this value easily!)
So I ve found that in M3L3 thirdInitInput is 6!
Why?
Is it mistake or not?
I thought 4 characters before pairs of integers are related to those pairs, but if thirdInitInput=6 then there are six pairs, but what are 4 characters means in that case???
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thirdInitInput is an integer, you are expected to return a letter
Maybe you should reevaluate what you thought based on this new data then. 
But indeed, it would be cool if IDE tests covered all cases, I didn’t notice that it was set to more than 5 in some validators.
Umm, what? I’ve read twice but haven’t understood what you mean yet…
Of course. Now I know that 4 characters is useless data for me while… I can’t find dependence between 4 chars and all other game… But I have one idea to check when I will be able to access to IDE and code…)
UPDATE: my idea about 4 characters was right and it simplifies the game so much, that I need to cut a half of my logic))) haha
How did you find out? I’ve been stuck with passing 89% of tests forever, and I did not understand why since I couldn’t find an error message for the failed test M3L3. Thanks to you, I realized I had forgotten a hard-coded “5” somewhere 
well, if you print incorrect output your code will fail the test.
so i just wrote:
if (thirdInitInput != 6) print(‘DAMN’)
And after it I got all validators failed except M3L3 =)
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Thanks, this helped me a lot!
Well, this challenge is over 9 months old, but I started it right now and found it very interesting.
It took me too long to see what’s going on, but I finally see it.
I think I get all the inputs, but I can’t get any idea about how extra points work.
I know you have some basic score, but under some circumstances I suddenly got 100+ points on a 6 turn play.
I still don’t get how it works, because that should be one of these hidden states, and I can’t see any way to identify it.
I saw that turns indeed affect other “players” behaviour, but I can’t see if it affects these bonus scores. I searched for “bonus” on places where I thought I can find them, but nothing.
Any ideas?
Oh man! What very nice puzzle! What an amazing euphoria took me when I finally understood what was going on. =D
Now I need to make a more intelligent solution.
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It seems that you removed the ability to test our code against custom test-case. Why so ?
Did python3’s random) Scored 586, but can not figure out what the game is about yet(
This option has indeed been removed a while ago. For any puzzle by the way. It was the cause of too many problems with wrong inputs.
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Found this challenge a little while ago and I love it! Thanks for providing this challenge to us. I sent this one to a few friends and we’re all having fun climbing the leaderboards.
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But how high was your score ? 
The aim is not only to have 100% passed, but to score high. Check the leaderboard and get impressed with the aliens scoring more than 10k
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700 with math.random 