[Community Puzzle] Kangaroo words - Puzzle discussion

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#1

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Created by @GamingGnawer,validated by @Remi,@Boris-Bodin and @Daniel_Kirchner.
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#2

I don’t get it. How do I determine which one the kangaroo word is?

#3

  1. You have to check the words against one another.

  2. Say, if you are checking whether word_k is a kangaroo word for word_j, you may loop through each character of word_j to see if the characters appear in ascending positions in word_k.

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#4

Hi all, my code (in Python) passed all tests but failed Validator 2. Do you have any hint, what is the problem?

#5

It’s difficult to tell. But try whether your code passes the following custom case:

Input

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jeez, beep, pfft, ez

Output

jeez: ez
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#6

@5DN1L Thank you very much. It does not pass.

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#7

Thank you @5DN1L ! I stumbled upon two issues with the statement which led to confusion, at least for me. Thus, my low level question in my first post.

First: The statement could be more concise what should happen if one thesaurus includes multiple valid kangaroo words. All of them are expected to be part of the output.
For example: thesaurus: ["aaah", "aah", "ah"] yields aaah: aah, ah and aah: ah.

Second: NONE is expected if and only if there are no valid kangaroos at all. If one single thesaurus does not contain a kangaroo word, but others do, the line is expected to be ignored.

#8

Indeed there may be confusion. I’ll pass on your comment to the author for their consideration. Thank you.