[Community Puzzle] Square Spiral for Alien Contact đź‘˝

Coding Games and Programming Challenges to Code Better

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Created by @Lisa-Has-Ideas,validated by @Arglanir,@cedricdd and @Biglover.
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Good puzzle!

One of the few GOOD GEMS here, unfortunately, hard to imagine this one being classified as EASY, considering the fact that this one requires the following additional requirements: (took 1.5hrs to get em all right…)

  • Pattern observation using the 2 given short string
  • Explicit handling of no wrap-around for letters
  • Only display the 31x31 upper-left section of the grid if oversized

Whilst this one with much less variation → Coding Games and Programming Challenges to Code Better is ranked as MEDIUM.

Worth mentioning in constraints that each of the 2 pattern string will always start with an UPPERCASE letter, followed by a non-negative integer / positive integer (not sure if such cases are valid 0A 1B)

I am fucked.

I pass all the normal tests, but fail validators 11, 16 and 24.

I don’t know where to start debugging, anyone has idea about what’s special in these validators?

Validator 11: Also “topLeft clockwise”, the same as Test 11. “F3” and “I” become something else but still very close. 7 and 6 become a 2-digit and a 3-digit integer respectively.

Validator 16: Still “clockwise”, the same as Test 16, but not “topRight” this time. 11 becomes a bigger 2-digit integer, 30 becomes a 1-digit integer, and 70 becomes a smaller 2-digit integer.

Validator 24: Still “topLeft”, the same as Test 24, but not “counter-clockwise” this time. 201 becomes a smaller 3-digit integer, 1000 becomes a 2-digit integer, and 989 becomes a much smaller 3-digit integer.

Nice puzzle ! but definitly not an easy one.