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By zscoder, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hi everyone,

April Fools is near and as usual we have an April Fools Day Contest on Codeforces this year. In addition to that, I usually try to host some form of mini April Fools Contest for my friends every year (or almost every year).

This year, I am trying to host a bigger April Fools Day contest than usual and I invite everyone to participate! In view of the April Fools contest on Codeforces, the round will begin at 31 March 10pm (GMT+8) and lasts for exactly $$$24$$$ hours (and thus it will end ~35 minutes before the CF April Fools round).

The contest will consist of several unusual tasks, and I hope that everyone will at least find something interesting. The problems will not be sorted by increasing order of difficulty (if the word difficulty is even applicable), so it is highly advisable to read (and try!) all tasks. This round is not an offical Codeforces round and thus is obviously unrated.

There is a Discord server for this contest (you can join it using this link). The Discord server might be required for some tasks. Hope to see you there!

Contest Link: here

UPD: The contest is open to both individuals and teams. However, if you decide to join as part of a team, I encourage you to use the team registration feature on CF or at least submit from just one account.

I would also like to thank gamegame and Savior-of-Cross for their help in testing and feedback (which changed one of the tasks).

The contest scoring will be IOI-styled, and there are no time penalties. Most of the tasks have some form of partial scoring. There will be $$$7$$$ tasks in total, with scores $$$100-100-100-100-100-100-200$$$.

UPD 2: Registration should be open now. The contest starts in ~6 hours. Good luck and have fun! (If you haven't joined the discord server, I encourage you to do so :) ).

UPD 3: The contest has just begun! Good luck and have fun. :)

UPD 4:

Here are some statistics.

First to AC:

A: I_love_Hoang_Yen (00:07)

B: googol_S0 (03:42)

C: 244mhq + antontrygubO_o (00:46)

D: conqueror_of_tourist (00:29)

E: conqueror_of_tourist (01:58)

F: ksun48 + tourist (11:05)

G: N/A

Number of ACs for each problem

A: 45

B: 3

C: 13

D: 27

E: 17

F: 2

G: 0

Number of ACs for Hololive Subtasks

Watame Janken: 10

Friend Fubuki: 33

Mio Yacht: 2

Yandere Rushia: 15

Apex Aqua: 8

Suisei Tetris: 10

All-Rejecting Okayu: 0 (shoutout to tourist+ksun48 and Ari for being the only ones to get $$$>4$$$ points!)

Gambling Pekora: 7

Korone Game: 6

Untitled Subaru Game: 2 (madlads AMO5 and Ari)

Hall of Fame

Okayu Top Scorers

Yacht Top Scorers

Tetris Top Scorers

Rushia Affection Leaderboard

Aqua Points Leaderboard

Okayu Stats

Global Stats

Top 10 Overall in Hololive Task

Top Scorers (Full Score = 800)

  1. ksun48 + tourist: 784 (only team to AC all A-F!)

  2. Golovanov399 AndreySergunin amethyst0: 679

  3. conqueror_of_tourist: 669

  4. kclee2172: 618

  5. googol_S0: 592

  6. Maksim1744: 592

  7. I_love_Hoang_Yen: 556

  8. dorijanlendvaj: 500

  9. ymmparsa Arian.Eft: 500

  10. Ari: 499 (highest score in G!)

Short Hints for all problems

A. Pacman and Power Pellet

B. As Easy As ABC

C. Two Hashes

D. Math Homework

E. Simple Exercise

F. Mystery

G. Can you do the hololive?

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I have participated in another april fools type contest by zscoder and it was quite cool. The best part was a person spoiling the solution to an unsolved problem in a discord chat without reading it. Looking forward to participating in this one too.

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    hardest problem unsolved in a contest, must be geometry

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Thanks :)

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:D

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Why so many people (including me) got 0 points in problem A, despite an easy problem :((

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    I think the fact of it was that if u are in the first row and go up u will go to the bottom row just like the actual game. (I’m saying this cause at first we didn’t pay attention to this and got a wrong answer.)

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      Yep, that's the joke for this problem.

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Thanks a lot for hosting the contest! It was really fun even though I missed dumb stuff and I suck at Tetris lol