Congratulations to everyone who competed in this contest! You’ve all done amazing and even created a lot of solutions that surprised me! As some of you might have guessed, this contest was based around the 2004 movie (and later musical) Mean Girls:
Hopefully you enjoyed the questions and didn’t find them too mean!
| Number of Questions | Number of Teams |
|---|---|
| At least 3 | 25 |
| At least 5 | 12 |
| At least 7 | 3 |
| At least 9 | 1 |
| Question | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Most Solved | A. Predecimal Currency | 35 solves |
| Least Solved | J. World Burn, K. Someone Gets Hurt, M. Let’s Do This Thing II | 0 solves |
| Highest AC Rate | D. It Roars | 80% |
| Lowest AC Rate | H. Meet the Plastics II | 14.81% |
| Made Nic crash out | C. Semantic Separator | 100% |
| Question | Solved By | Time |
|---|---|---|
| A. Predecimal Currency | SEGFAULT SQUAD | 00:04:06 |
| B. Pizza Police | SEGFAULT SQUAD | 00:10:08 |
| C. Semantic Separator | LEGDAY TOMORROW | 01:25:55 |
| D. It Roars | SEGFAULT SQUAD | 01:27:54 |
| E. Where Do You Belong? | SEGFAULT SQUAD | 01:02:39 |
| F. Stupid With Love | SHAYUDOESNOTSUCK | 00:33:23 |
| G. Meet the Plastics I | KERMITS | 00:23:25 |
| H. Meet the Plastics II | NUWIN | 03:49:08 |
| I. Revenge Party | BYTE ME | 01:36:19 |
| J. World Burn | ||
| K. Someone Gets Hurt | ||
| L. Let’s Do This Thing I | KERMITS | 01:22:45 |
| M. Let’s Do This Thing II |
🥇 SEGFAULT SQUAD
🥈 KERMITS
🥉 SHAYUDOESNOTSUCK
Mathematics
Each set of coins can be converted into its equivalent value in pence, and then compared with the values of every other set of coins. As $12$ pennies are equivalent to a shilling and $20$ shillings are equivalent to a pound, a pound is worth $240$ pennies.
A sets equivalent value in pennies is $\text{pennies} + (12 \times \text{shillings}) + (240 \times \text{pounds})$.
We can use an unordered map to map each set’s value in pennies to the count of how many sets have this equivalent value, then count which key has the highest value.