Hi,
thanks for your support, it allowed me to find a slight bug always nice to improve with nice support!
JRL86
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This was excellent, and I’m glad that you created this opportunity for me! Thank you!
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Piling on, @Lisa-Has-Ideas , I always like finding a new one of your puzzles. They are usually pretty easy to work through but almost always have a challenge or two. And your test cases are always amusing. Keep up the great work!
Per the instructions, there is a similar medium puzzle called Hidden Word that I had already solved a while back. I took the same exact code, and just had to change the inputs and the outputs to conform to the directions. So if you solve this puzzle and have not yet solved the Hidden Word puzzle in the medium puzzles, you should be able to use your solution here as an excellent starting point.
And since I had solved the Medium puzzle more than a few years ago, I got to go through my old code and curse myself out for some of my previous poor practices. 
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I’ve got the same problem. Out of ideas. 
I liked this particular Lisa Has Ideas puzzle.
But as a 40 year old Romanian, I found the last usecase unnecessary. Also I am married without kids so I felt the pain 
i suggest that the corner cases are provided upfront in the testable test cases or at least in the question descriptions:
Corner cases i encountered:
- only 1 character to search
- border is warped/connected e.g. PLEABCEXAM = here EXAMPLE is found by connecting EXAM on the right + PLE from the left.
Why add the same puzzle only to an easier category?
Now, when i can see a contribution page for a puzzle, i can answer on my own question above and your comment:
Some of comments from a contribution page of this puzzle from oldest to newest:
Rafarafa
over 2 years ago
Quite similar to: https://www.codingame.com/… Probably fine anyway, yet I wanted to let you know that changing a couple lines of @kiwijam’s pythons’ top solution can solve this puzzle.
Ali-Kanbar
over 2 years ago
Approved the contribution. Comment: I changed my mind, i like the idea and although it’s like another puzzle but the outputs are different and it’s okay for two puzzles to share the same idea
Saphir123
over 2 years ago
Approved the contribution. Comment: Good puzzle, but very close to the puzzle Hidden word.
Lisa definitely has some interesting ideas, almost every time I meet some catchy ideas I find Lisa’s name on top of em !
Hi, I have the same problem with validator 2. Could you please also share some information to me about this validator so I can debug ?
Thank you
That user may not be active right now. If you want, you may send me your code in private message and I’ll take a look.
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