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Invitation to TheForces Round #29 (Clown-Forces, Prizes!, April Fools!)
By wuhudsm, 8 months ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to invite you to TheForces Round #29 (Clown-Forces), which will take place on Mar/31/2024 17:40 (Moscow time)

What is TheForces Round?

This is an April Fools style contest, we hope you all have fun 😜

You will have 120 minutes to solve 6 problems.

Prizes: The first solver of each problem will win $$$1$$$ dollar as a prize. In addition, the first non $$$-$$$ penalty solver of each problem will win $$$1$$$ dollar as a prize too. Please actively participate 🤤

For more details about TheForces Prize, please join our Discord Server (2000+ people).

Contests' archive

Editorial

UPD:

Congrats for the first solver and the first non $$$-$$$ penalty solver!

The first solver:

A:Mehdi_Ba

B:DylanSmith

C:AHappyPotato

D:Ace_42

E:A_G

F:temmieowo

The first non $$$-$$$ penalty solver:

A:Mehdi_Ba

B:DylanSmith

C:Little_Sheep_Yawn

D:Ace_42

E:A_G

F:temmieowo

(pls DM wuhudsm for your prize :) )

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As a tester, I can confirm that I was april fooled by those problems in advance.

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I can confirm that these are the most foolish problems I have ever seen!

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As a fool, I hope that problems fool me, so that the foolishness cancels... or maybe multiplies.

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As a problemsetter, I hope you will enjoy the round :D

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As a tester, I wish that you would participate...

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As a tester, I hope you too get fooled by the problems.

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what if some one participates from 3000 alt account, will he win 1000 dollars?

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    Yep

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      Happy April fool , that's so straight forward:),hope no one has wasted time in making 3000 alts:)

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As a tester I confirm I was April fooled by the problems and hope that you also get fooled

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As a tester I hope you have fun <3

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As a problem setter, I hope my problem is foolish

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    Pupil when mentioned, back to Specialist when commented. Good Going, hoping your problems to challenge and be challenged.

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      Thanks!!

      I hope that my problem fools contestants up.

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As a tester, I can confirm no clowns were hurt during the making of contest.

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As a tester, i can confim this you will gonna be fool by problems :)

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Is it rated?

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Good luck to everybody! This contest will surely be interesting

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First fool — contest start :)

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Spent some time on B because I was misled by Amir_Parsa's rating. Just curious, was this coincidence intentional?

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https://codeforces.net/gym/105062/problem/D is its output always "256" ????? but why it gives wrong?

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What was the Solution to B

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    It was my problem see https://theforces.netlify.app/ratings

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      Where is the solution?

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        See the ratings and testcases and samples

        It is the rating of the top coders

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        if you don't understand how to solve then touch it -:]
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Congrats there's no prize because it's april fools contest.

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What is the solution for Problem F. Anyone any idea? I tried to relate with the graphs but did not cracked

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https://codeforces.net/gym/105062/problem/D ;_;

Don't touch spoiler
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