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I don't understand the first "combat" level. There's no real defining pattern separating the good from bad hex strings, so it's just a typing speed contest to type all the enemy patterns, right? What am I missing?


As far as I can tell, the first combat level enemies all start with "ALERT-" and have exactly 3 digits.


sorry, second combat level. It's all 6 digit hex color strings, some good some bad.


Ah, I see. Yeah, that one definitely took me multiple attempts to see what it wanted.

I believe that the "enemies":

1. Must start with "#"

2. Must be exactly 6 hex digits

3. Must be lowercase


Ohhhhh I swore there were friendlies with lowercase too! Thank you!!


There are, just not lowercase characters that are valid hex.




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