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 2023-01-08 

Christmas (2022) is over

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You didn't mention the rate limiting you put in for the bots!

Sorry about that
(anonymous)
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I fought very hard to solve the middle "here are the 6 answers, construct the 6 small problems", but I just couldn't. Hints about that one and the genre in general would be great.
Lise Andreasen
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@Valentin V?LCIU: Oops, forgot to remove my testing that everything works from the list of people! (Removing it now)
Matthew
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You solved your own problems? Twice?
Valentin V?LCIU
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@(anonymous): There was a typo - I've just corrected it
Matthew
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In question 3 the sum of the red numbers is 369, is there a typo?
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