After the recently concluded January Long Challenge, I would like to invite you for some more interesting challenges to keep your coding schedule always packed!

Participate in the January Cook-Off 2018 and enjoy Chef’s tricky tests. Joining me on the panel are:

• Problem Setter and Editorialist: sidhant (Sidhant Bansal), arjunarul (Arjun Arul)

• Problem Tester and Admin: kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh), mgch (Misha Chorniy)

• Russian Translator: CherryTree (Sergey Kulik)

• Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)

• Vietnamese Translator: VNOI Team

I hope you will enjoy solving them. Please give your feedback on the problem set in the comments below, after the contest.

Contest Details:

Time: 21st January 2018 (2130 hrs — 0000 hrs Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.

Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/COOK90

Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.

Prizes:

• Top 10 performers in Global and Indian category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here: https://www.codechef.com/laddu. (For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to [email protected])

According to me, the problems are very interesting and I am sure that you will have fun while solving these problems :)

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating!!