You should refer to the substrings taken from each name only when determining the overlapping part, as indicated by the brackets [ ] in my last reply.
Yup that seems to be the interpretation that gives the 100% score - but in my opinion that is not explicitly stated in the statement. And, I like the sound of alasmine just as much as (or even more than) aladdine - surely because of the additional ‘in’ overlap. But that interpretation apparently is not wat the puzzle creator had intended.
@Lisa-Has-Ideas: if you understand my issue and agree that it currently is ambiguous, maybe you can add to the statement something like Letters are only overlapping if they appear in both the left-substring and the right-substring. Or even exactly the phrasing of 5DN1L: You should refer to the substrings taken from each name only when determining the overlapping part.
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