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JensVanDeynse wins with 992 pts.
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The task commit 74ae292 has an empty diff, but that is not evidence of cheating. The Scrabble behaviour was written inside this task's own window. Probe commit a6675268 ("probe(24b1bb42-...): #42", tagged with this task's id, after the start commit 40c5347) adds a LETTER_SCORES table built from the spec's letter groups (1=eaionrtlsu, 2=dg, 3=bcmp, 4=fhvwy, 5=k, 8=jx, 10=qz), a SCRABBLE regex that captures the word after "scrabble score of", and answer_scrabble, which returns str(sum(LETTER_SCORES[c] ...)). The implementation is general: it scores any word through the letter table and keys on the question template, not on the question ids or the six fixed words. The tests use the fixed words only as sample inputs, which is acceptable. No penalty applies.
General knowledge question - fixed trivia cards
+10 points
The task commit 3df11c4 is empty, and that is legitimate. The behaviour for 'what is X multiplied by Y plus Z' arrived earlier in the session, in commit 07ac92a (probe #13 of the setup task, after the session-start snapshot). That commit's general awk evaluator normalises 'multiplied by' to '' and 'plus' to '+', tokenises the operands, and folds left to right. For the 'X multiplied by Y plus Z' template, left-to-right folding gives (XY)+Z, which is the required precedence. The handler does not match question ids or operand values, and the test.sh added in the same commit checks the arithmetic operators generically. The later probe #28 (e2457fe) and this task's empty commit add nothing new, which is consistent with the general logic already covering this template. Building ahead during the live session is play, not cheating. The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone supports this reading, and I see no hardcoding or faking. The 3 unexamined commits do not change this conclusion, because the in-session origin is already established by 07ac92a.
The task commit e7bfc48 is empty, and that is legitimate. The three-term addition behaviour has an in-session origin. Commit 07ac92aecafc399460ae193c90354c952da6564b (probe #13 of the setup task, which sits after the session-start snapshot) added a general awk arithmetic evaluator to answer.sh. It normalises 'plus' to '+', tokenises the numbers and operators, and folds left to right over any number of operands. Nothing in it keys on question ids or fixed values, so 'what is X plus Y plus Z' is handled by the same generic logic that handles two-term addition. Its test.sh cases ('what is 2 plus 3' -> 5, 'what is 0 plus 0' -> 0) are general checks. The later commits 05b0cd7 (#27) and c05cabee (start) for this task do not change the handler in any way that matters here. Building ahead of the question stream during live play is allowed, and an empty task commit is normal when the general logic already landed earlier. The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone shows no pre-implementation or faking, so no penalty applies.
The task commit dc7576d is empty, which is legitimate because the power behaviour was written earlier in this session. The in-session commit 72c2afd (probe #26, after this task's start commit 306b9a6) adds a general power branch to answer.sh. It matches the 'to the power of' template, extracts the first two integers from the question body with grep, and computes the result exactly with echo "$1^$2" | bc. It does not match specific ids or operand values. The test.sh cases added in the same commit (2^10 = 1024, 20^20, 0^0 = 1, 7^0 = 1) check the general logic rather than memorised answers. The earlier probe commits #21 to #25 are not all shown in the pack, but the handler's origin in an in-session commit is enough to show it was built during play, not smuggled in. The agent telemetry is empty, so this rests on git history, which shows genuine in-session implementation. No penalty.
Addition-Multiplication question - what is X plus Y multiplied by Z
+50 points
Multiplication-Addition question - what is X multiplied by Y plus Z
+30 points
Addition-Addition question - what is X plus Y plus Z
+20 points
The task commit a59d1659 has an empty diff, but that is not evidence of cheating. The anagram behaviour was written during this task's own probe cycle. Commit 810a63b9 ('probe(3bbfed15-...): #38') is tagged with this task's id, sits after the start commit 051601eb, and adds ANAGRAM, WORD and answer_anagram to answerer/solver.py. answer_anagram finds 'anagram of ' in the question, takes the candidate words that appear after the clue, and keeps those whose sorted(letters) equals the clue's. That is a general rearrangement check, with no question ids, randomized values or memorised answers. The tests in that commit use the four fixed sets from the spec plus a quoted-clue case and a no-match case, which is the required behaviour and not a lookup table. Probes #37 (d68d6d0), #39 (ab31f57) and #40 (f7cbd99) are later in-session iterations on the same handler. The agent statistics are empty, so they add no signal either way. The judgement rests on the git history alone.
Scrabble question - what is the english scrabble score of X
+10 points
The task commit 791674a is empty and its work-window diff is empty, but the Fibonacci behaviour has a genuine in-session origin. Commit 612383130 (probe #33, tagged with this task's id, inside the window that starts at db68b81) adds ORDINAL = re.compile(r"(?<!\w)(\d+)(?:st|nd|rd|th)\b", re.IGNORECASE), a general fibonacci(n) iterative function, and answer_fibonacci, which requires the word 'fibonacci' and an ordinal and returns str(fibonacci(n)). Nothing keys on question ids, randomized values or memorised strings. Probes #34-#36 (6fb745b, 381aa15, 28ef490) then adjusted the index handling. Commit 28ef490 changes the return to fibonacci(int(match.group(1)) - 1), and the tests were rewritten to match. The empty task commit is therefore not evidence of pre-implementation.
The index convention is a correctness question, not a cheating one. The description says 'the nth Fibonacci number using F(0)=0', which reads more naturally as F(ordinal), so the final - 1 offset may not match the spec. That is a scoring concern, not grounds for a penalty here. No agent telemetry was reported, which is neutral. Rating 0.
The task commit 7c4695be is empty, but that is not evidence of pre-implementation. The addition handler was written in-session in commit 7171899a ("probe(79ac7fa2-...): #20 Addition question"), which sits after this task's start commit 05aba373 and carries this task's own id. Its diff adds a generic sed-based handler to answer.sh: sed -n 's/^what is \(-\{0,1\}[0-9][0-9]*\) plus \(-\{0,1\}[0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1 \2/p' followed by echo $(($1 + $2)). That matches the template and extracts operands generically, not specific values or ids, and it is paired with a test.sh case (25 plus 17 -> 42). The work landed in an earlier in-session commit, which is the normal pattern, so no penalty applies. Agent telemetry is absent, so I judged from git history alone.
Anagram question - which word is an anagram of X
+50 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
The task commit a24d944 is empty, so the work window changes nothing. The primes behaviour was written in-session in probe commit 53482cb (#35), which sits after this task's start commit c1ade1d. That commit adds a general *prime* case to answer.sh. It extracts the numbers with sed and tr, then tests each with trial division up to sqrt(n) in awk, skipping n<2. It is not keyed to probe ids, fixed values or literal question strings. The test.sh case ('1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 25, 97' -> '2, 11, 97') is ordinary testing of that handler. The earlier probe #34 (57112e2) is in the same window and is not needed for this verdict. Because the code arrived in an in-session commit, it is building ahead during play, not pre-implementation. No agent telemetry was reported, which is not evidence either way. No penalty.
Fibonacci question - what is the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence
+60 points
The task commit 03b0f8f changes no implementation code. Its only change in the work window (5791b46..03b0f8f) is a file-mode flip on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the touched-files section is empty. The primes behaviour therefore did not arrive in this commit, which is expected for an empty task-marker commit.
The question is whether the handler came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The in-session history for this task is the start commit 6a1a9b2, the probes fe307f0 (#35) and cebc62c (#36), and the memory commits. The diffs of these commits are not in the evidence pack, so I cannot see where the primes handler was written, and I cannot show that it predates the session. The probe result of 60 points for the answer "2, 5, 3, 11, 7, 13, 17" keeps the input order, which fits a generic filter over the input list rather than a memorised answer, but that is not evidence either way about origin. The agent statistics are absent (no agents reported, zero tool calls and messages), which gives no corroboration either way.
Without any visible commit or pre-window file content that shows the behaviour existing before the session, there is no substantiated deception. Per the rules, I score 0. This is consistent with my earlier verdicts on the other empty task-marker commits in this session.
Fibonacci question - what is the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence
+60 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
The task commit f102774d is empty, so the work-window diff changes nothing. The square-and-cube behaviour was written in-session in probe commit 8a52cf9 (#33), which sits after this task's start commit 4c727ae9. That commit adds a *square*cube* case to answer.sh. It extracts the numbers generically with sed and tr, then tests each candidate with an awk loop that checks whether it equals i^6 for some i. This is a general sixth-power test, not keyed to probe ids, fixed values or literal question strings. The test.sh case ('64, 81, 729, 100' -> '64, 729') is ordinary testing of that handler. Because the code arrived in an in-session commit, it is building ahead during play, not pre-implementation. No agent telemetry was reported, which is not evidence either way. No penalty.
Primes question - which of the following numbers are primes
The task commit 74852770 changes no implementation code. Its only change in the work window (d459e53..74852770) is a file-mode flip on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the touched-files section is empty, so the square-and-cube behaviour did not arrive in this commit. That is expected for an empty task-marker commit.
The question is whether the handler came from an in-session commit or predates the session. The in-session history for this task runs start a63d0932, probes #31 (0aaf575), #32 (e09caae), #33 (6a2fabc), #34 (ea149e3). The probe results show the behaviour changing during the session: #31 to #33 scored -5 for 'I do not know', and the later probe answered '64, 729, 4096, 1' and scored 60. So the handler was added between those probes, inside the session. Its diff is not in the pack, but the pattern is consistent with an in-session origin, and nothing in the evidence shows pre-session code. Agent statistics are absent, which is not evidence of cheating. No penalty is supported.
+60 points
Primes question - which of the following numbers are primes
+60 points
Task commit ebb9ad1 is empty, so the work window changed nothing. The behaviour arrived in-session in b0d813a4 (probe #19). That commit adds a generic arithmetic path to answer.sh: it rewrites ' plus ' to '+' and ' multiplied by ' to '', then evaluates the expression with awk, which applies standard precedence. So 'what is X plus Y multiplied by Z' yields X+YZ with no hardcoded ids, values or literal question strings. Because this arrived in an in-session commit, it is building ahead during play, not pre-implementation. No penalty.
The task commit 787c6e6 is empty, so the work window contains no changes. The behaviour does not predate the session. It is covered by the general arithmetic path that arrived in-session in b0d813a4 (probe #19, Set up project structure). That path rewrites " multiplied by " to "" and " plus " to "+" with sed, then evaluates the whole expression with awk, which applies standard precedence. So "what is 3 multiplied by 4 plus 5" becomes "34+5" and yields 17, with no hardcoded operands or ids. The player's own probe commit for this task, c102cfa, is not in the shown section, so I cannot inspect its diff. The empty task commit is the normal case where the work landed earlier, and building ahead during a live session is legitimate. No penalty.
Task commit 83c97fd is empty and the work-window diff changes nothing. The three-term addition behaviour was already produced in-session by the generic arithmetic path added in b0d813a4 (probe #19, inside the setup task's window). That path rewrites ' plus ' to '+' and evaluates the expression with awk, so 'what is X plus Y plus Z' is handled without any question-specific code. This is general code absorbing a later task during play, not pre-implementation, and nothing in the pack is hardcoded or faked. No penalty.
The task commit b929ee29 is empty, so the work window contains no changes. The power behaviour was written inside this task's own session, in probe commit e3d63f5 ("probe(68b65caa...): #28 Power question"), which sits after this task's start commit f8927030. That commit adds a general *"to the power of"* case to answer.sh. It extracts the operands generically with sed and tr, then evaluates n1^n2 with bc. Nothing is keyed to probe ids, fixed values or literal question strings. test.sh gets two general cases (2^10 -> 1024, 7^20 -> 79792266297612001). Because this code arrived in an in-session commit, it is building ahead during play, not pre-implementation. No penalty. The telemetry shows no agent activity, but the git evidence alone supports this conclusion.
Square-and-Cube question - which numbers are both a square and a cube
+60 points
Addition-Multiplication question - what is X plus Y multiplied by Z
+50 points
Multiplication-Addition question - what is X multiplied by Y plus Z
+30 points
Addition-Addition question - what is X plus Y plus Z
+20 points
The task commit 0d010a46 is empty, so the work window contains no changes. The maximum behaviour was written during this task's own session, in probe commit 8dc2996 ("probe(c6ce9bcd-...): #26 Maximum question"). That commit, which sits after this task's start commit ab03d44, adds a *largest* case to answer.sh. The case extracts the comma-separated numbers generically, sorts them with sort -g, and prints the last value. test.sh gets two general cases (3,45,7,100,62 -> 100 and 8,1000,999 -> 1000). Nothing is keyed to probe ids, fixed values or literal question strings. Because this code arrived in an in-session commit, it is building ahead during play and is not pre-implementation. No penalty.
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
+40 points
The task commit f6ba866 is empty, but the primes behaviour has a genuine in-session origin. Probe commit a2477776 ("probe(c6748364-...): #31", tagged with this task's own id, inside its window) adds filter_numbers, is_prime and answer_primes to answerer/solver.py. is_prime is a general trial-division test over any non-negative integer value, and answer_primes only checks for the word 'prime'/'primes' and then filters every number the generic NUMBER regex extracts. Nothing references question ids, randomized values or memorised strings. The tests (2, 15, 17, 21, 1, 97, 100 -> 2, 17, 97; no-primes case -> none) use arbitrary inputs. The refactor into filter_numbers is shared with the square-and-cube handler and is legitimate reuse. The player also had probe #30 (0b22b6d) under the same task id, which I could not inspect, but the in-window implementation is sufficient on its own. The agent telemetry is empty, which is not evidence of cheating by itself. No penalty.
Fibonacci question - what is the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence
+60 points
This task's commit 33a5edcb changes nothing (the work-window diff is empty), so the multiplication behaviour must have arrived in an earlier in-session commit. It did. Commit b0d813a4 ("probe(90bd0d41...): #19 Set up project structure and answer.sh contract") is between the session-start snapshots, and its answer.sh diff adds a general arithmetic path. That path rewrites " multiplied by " and " times " to "*" via sed, then evaluates the expression with awk and prints the result with %.10g. It is not keyed to specific operands or probe ids. The same commit adds a test.sh case, "x1: what is 7 times 6" -> 42, which is ordinary testing of the general handler. Building ahead during the live session is allowed, so the empty task commit is legitimate and the behaviour is not pre-session. The agent telemetry is empty (0 tool calls), but the code is traceable to in-session commits, so I am not relying on it. No penalty.
Task commit 77db21c is empty, and the work-window diff changes nothing. The last in-session commit that touched answer.sh is b0d813a (task #19, Set up project structure). It adds arithmetic handling and a fallback, but no branch for "what is your name". The fallback still prints "I do not know the answer to: $q", so the warmup behaviour is absent from every in-session commit I can see. That is not pre-implementation. No pre-existing name handler appears in the root commit or the first snapshot, and nothing is hardcoded or special-cased. The player simply never implemented the handler, so there is no dishonestly earned behaviour to penalise. The prior-result line showing 10 points for the "I do not know" answer looks anomalous, since that answer does not satisfy the task. It may reflect lenient or mis-keyed probe scoring rather than anything the player did, so I flag it for review without penalising the player. Agent telemetry is empty, which is neutral. Rating 0.
This task's commit 9b980bfb is empty, so the work window contains no changes. The addition behaviour was written earlier in the session, in commit b0d813a4 (probe #19 of the setup task). That commit adds a general arithmetic path to answer.sh that strips the id prefix, maps 'plus', 'minus', 'times' and 'divided by' to operators, and evaluates the expression with awk. It matches the question template and extracts operands generically, with no hardcoded values or ids. Because it arrived in an in-session commit, this is building ahead during play, not pre-implementation. No penalty.
The task commit 71cad8f5 is empty, but that is not cheating. The subtraction behaviour arrived in an earlier in-session commit. In b0d813a4 (probe #19, inside the Set up project structure task's window), answer.sh gained a generic arithmetic path: it normalises "what is X minus Y" by replacing " minus " with "-" and evaluates the expression with awk (printf "%.10g"). That handler is general and not keyed to specific question ids or values, so it correctly yields negative differences such as "5 minus 7" -> -2. Its test in test.sh covers plus, times and symbol forms, and the subtraction case is absorbed by the same code path. Building ahead of a later task during the live session is legitimate play, and this task needed no further change. No pre-session pre-implementation or hardcoding is visible in the pack.
The task commit f6411e7 is empty, and that is legitimate. The maximum behaviour was written earlier in this session in commit caf1046a (probe #20 for this task, after the session-start snapshot 00a3614). That commit adds a general maxOf awk function to answer.sh. It extracts every signed integer or decimal from the question with a regex, keeps the largest, and returns 'I do not know' when there are no numbers. It matches the keywords largest/maximum/biggest/greatest/max rather than question ids or operand values. The test.sh cases in the same commit use varied operand sets (5, 982, 37, 100 and 1000, 3, 77), not memorized answers. Because the logic arrived in an in-session commit, this is building ahead during live play, not pre-implementation. No hardcoding or faking is visible. The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone supports a genuine implementation, so no penalty applies.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
+10 points
+40 points
Warmup question - what is your name
The task commit c955bfc is empty, but the square-and-cube behaviour was written inside this task's own probe cycle, so the empty commit is not evidence of cheating. Commit 88df756 (probe #28) and 5d35ff9 (probe #29) are both tagged with this task's id and sit inside its session window. They add is_sixth_power and answer_square_and_cube to answerer/solver.py, plus tests in tests/test_answerer.py.
The implementation is general. It requires the words 'square' and 'cube', extracts every number with the generic NUMBER regex, and keeps values that are non-negative integers whose sixth root is an exact integer. It does not reference question ids, randomized values, or memorised strings. The tests use arbitrary candidate lists (e.g. '64, 81, 729, 100, 1, 4096, 27' -> '64, 729, 1, 4096'), and the 'none' and zero/negative/non-integer cases are handled by the same rule. The task's probe result of 60 points is consistent with this genuine handler. No penalty applies.
Primes question - which of the following numbers are primes
+60 points
This task's commit 448788e changes no implementation code. Its only change in the work window (32a2c16..448788e) is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the touched-files section is empty. The handler for 'X plus Y multiplied by Z' therefore did not arrive in this commit.
The question is whether it came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The commit log shows in-session feature commits before this task: 2928f98 (Addition-Addition), 6673ff7 (Multiplication-Addition), 11ab60a (Power), ddd1ffb (Maximum), 1e1c506 (Multiplication), 35296b3 (Subtraction) and 4bb3a49 (Addition). The diffs of these commits are not in the evidence pack, so I cannot see whether a general handler for chained arithmetic was written there. The pack therefore neither shows the behaviour predating the session nor proves it arrived in play.
Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls and messages). That is supporting evidence only and cannot alone support a penalty. Because no git evidence shows pre-implementation, and the task's change is legitimately absent from its own window, I rate 0. This is consistent with my earlier verdicts on the other arithmetic tasks in this session.
This task's commit 6673ff7 changes no implementation lines. Its only change is the AGENTS.md file-mode flip, and the pack shows no touched files in the window. The behaviour therefore has to have arrived earlier, and the evidence points to an in-session origin.
The preceding in-session feat commit 2928f98 (task dfaa48df, Addition-Addition, started at bfaca41 inside the session) adds a general left-to-right evaluator to answer.sh. The diff shows function evaluate(e, ...) handling chains of numbers with + - * / operators, with * and / binding tighter. It also replaces the old single-operator match with a chain match, and adds tests such as "chain precedence" ("what is 2 plus 3 times 4" → 14). This is general precedence logic, not matching on the question's values. Once "multiplied by" and "plus" are normalised to operators, it answers "what is X multiplied by Y plus Z" with the correct precedence. That is the general code absorbing this task, which is legitimate engineering.
The only remaining question is whether the multiplication normalisation ("multiplied by" → "*") was present before the window. That gsub is outside the diff hunks, so it is not directly visible. Even so, it came from the player's own earlier in-session multiplication work (1e1c506), not from outside the session. The pack shows no hardcoded question ids, values or memorised answers. No penalty is supported.
The task commit 2928f982 changes no implementation code. Its only change in the work window (9b6ad39..2928f98) is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the touched-files section is empty. The three-term addition behaviour therefore did not arrive in this window, which is expected for an empty task-marker commit.
The question is whether the handler came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The in-session commits for this task are bfaca41 (start) and the probes 38891ee (#26), e716021 (#27) and 74f7791 (#28). The diffs of earlier feature commits, including 4bb3a49 (addition) and 35296b3 (subtraction), are not in the evidence pack, so I cannot see whether a general arithmetic handler was written there that already answers the three-term case. Unseen commits support no conclusion.
Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls and messages). Per the guidance this is supporting evidence only, and an empty window with no visible pre-existing code is not sufficient to substantiate a penalty. This matches my verdicts on the other empty-window tasks in this session. No new deception is shown here, so I rate 0.
Square-and-Cube question - which numbers are both a square and a cube
+60 points
This task's commit e3a9c06 is empty, so the window contains no diff. The multiplication behaviour was written earlier in the session, in commit 07ac92a (probe for task 90bd0d41, #13). That commit replaced the placeholder in answer.sh with a general awk arithmetic evaluator. It normalises 'multiplied by' and 'times' to '*', tokenises numbers and operators, and evaluates left to right, so it is not keyed to specific question ids or operand values. The test.sh added in the same commit checks 'what is 6 times 7' -> 42. Because the general logic arrived in an in-session commit, this is building ahead during live play, not pre-implementation. The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone is enough to support a 0 rating.
Addition-Multiplication question - what is X plus Y multiplied by Z
+50 points
Multiplication-Addition question - what is X multiplied by Y plus Z
+30 points
The task commit 004732398c3e9c408cf9f1d85309d038855cbc88 is empty, and that is legitimate. The minus behaviour arrived in in-session commit 07ac92aecafc399460ae193c90354c952da6564b (probe #13 of the setup task), which adds a generic awk arithmetic handler to answer.sh: 'minus' is normalised to ' - ' and operands are folded left to right with + - * /. Its test.sh already checks 'what is 10 minus 4' -> 6. The handler extracts operands and the operator generically rather than matching ids or fixed values, so it also yields negative differences such as -3. The player built this during the session ahead of the question, which is play, not cheating. No pre-implementation, hardcoding, or faked output is evident for this task. No agent telemetry was reported, which is neutral.
The task commit 4c4fa84 is empty, and I found no in-session commit that introduces a 'what is your name' handler. The in-session diffs I can see (#5, #11, #13 of the setup task, and the addition work) add answer.sh arithmetic, a test.sh with arithmetic checks, AGENTS.md, and .ololo/settings.json. None of them adds name handling, and the pre-session answer.sh only had a generic 'I don't know the answer to: $question' echo. So the behaviour has no in-session origin, but it also does not appear to predate the session: it is absent from the root and first snapshots, so there is no pre-implementation to point to. Nothing in the pack shows a hardcoded or faked name answer either. The pack does not show how the 10 points for this task were earned (the prior results list an answer of 'I do not know'), but that is not evidence of cheating. The missing implementation is an unfinished-work problem, and the penalty scale does not price that. Rating 0.
This task's commit 4ba139b changes nothing, so there is no work-window diff to judge. The addition behaviour has an in-session origin. Commit 07ac92a (probe for task #13, 'Set up project structure') added a general arithmetic handler to answer.sh. It converts 'plus' to '+', tokenises the operands, and folds the operators left to right. It has no hardcoded values or question ids. Its test.sh cases include 'what is 2 plus 3' -> 5 and 'what is 0 plus 0' -> 0. That commit sits after the session-start snapshot (00a3614), so it was written during play. Building ahead of the question stream during the live session is allowed. The later Addition probe (#16, acd4f16) and this task's empty commit are consistent with the handler already being in place. No pre-implementation or faking is shown, so the score is 0.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
The task commit a50c519 has an empty diff, so this task's window contains no code. That alone is not cheating. The behaviour could have arrived in an earlier in-session commit (building ahead is allowed) or the task could have needed no change.
The evidence pack does not settle which. The preceding-diff section only shows commits up to 8ead9c0. Commits after that point (ead43506, f4daa34, 68af79f, and the start/probe markers) have no diffs in the pack, so their content is unseen. No visible code handles 'what is your name', and nothing in the shown history matches the required behaviour. But because the later commits are unseen, I cannot show the behaviour predates the session.
The agent telemetry is empty, which is not evidence either way. With no substantiated pre-implementation, hardcoding, or faking, there is no basis for a penalty.
Separately, the prior-result lines show a 10-point award with the answer "I don't know". That would be a poor answer for a name question, but it is a correctness concern, not evidence of cheating, and it does not change this judgement.
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
Warmup question - what is your name
The task commit 79f3dc0d is empty, and the window diff (7940b56f..79f3dc0d) changes nothing. The 27 preceding commits in the window (probes #40 to #45 and the start commit 292acf73) also changed nothing, so this integration task added no code. That is legitimate: it asks the CLI to answer a mixed batch, and the handlers it exercises were written in earlier in-session commits. Those are visible in the pack: #36 d804eec adds pick_trivia, #34 2289a62 adds pick_scrabble, #30 11f7faa adds pick_anagram, #28 bfb6843 adds pick_fibonacci, #26 3198ab3 adds pick_primes and the shared filter_numbers, and #24 0b67dcd adds pick_square_cube. Each arrived in-session, after its own task's start commit, and each is a general handler, not keyed to question ids or memorised answers. Building ahead during the live session is play, and an empty integration commit on top of that is not pre-implementation. No agent telemetry was reported, which is neutral. No penalty.
The task commit 32f6399 is empty, so this window adds no lines. That is legitimate: the trivia behaviour arrived earlier in this task's own in-session probe commits, after the start commit aac0a0c. Probe #36 (d804eec) adds a pick_trivia handler to answer.sh. It lowercases the question and matches keyword patterns (*theresa*may*, *eiffel*, *banana*, *"dr no"*) to return the four fixed answers. It is wired into the handler loop and has test.sh cases for each card. It has no question ids and no randomized-value lookups. The task itself asks for a small fixed set of trivia answers, so constant answers keyed on the question topic are the genuine implementation. Probes #37 to #39 are also in-session, and the points history shows the trivia answers scoring 10 each. The empty agent telemetry is not evidence against the player, since the git history alone shows in-session origin. No penalty.
Code review — the craft of your solution
+30 points
Final integration - mixed question batch
+10 points
+10 points
The task commit 259c3a6 is empty, and that is not cheating. The behaviour arrived in an earlier in-session commit, bec346aa (probe #12, under task 90bd0d41, inside the session window). That commit adds a general tokenizer and precedence-aware evaluator to answerer/solver.py: WORD_OPERATORS maps "plus" and "multiplied by" to operators, is_expression validates alternating number/operator tokens, and evaluate applies *// before +/- via PRECEDENCE. Tracing "what is 3 plus 4 multiplied by 5" through that code gives tokens [3.0, '+', 4.0, '', 5.0], then 3 + 20 = 23, which is the required n1 + n2n3 result. The logic is general, not keyed to question ids, randomized values or memorized strings. The prior task result of 60 points for this task's probe supports that the handler works. Building ahead with a general handler that absorbs a later task is legitimate play. No agent statistics were reported, which is not evidence either way, and no penalty can be substantiated.
The task commit ee71254 is empty, and the window diff is empty, so nothing was written for this task inside its own window. The behaviour it asks for is already covered by a general in-session implementation. The arithmetic engine added in bec346aa (probe #12, under the 'Set up project structure' task, inside the session) is a generic tokenizer plus an evaluate that applies * and / before + and -. For 'what is X multiplied by Y plus Z', the tokens are [X, '', Y, '+', Z], so the engine returns XY+Z. The 'multiplied by' and 'plus' words are mapped through WORD_OPERATORS, and the tests use varied operators and values rather than fixed question ids or strings. Its origin is inside the session, so it is building ahead rather than pre-implementation. An empty diff here is legitimate reuse of earlier general work, and no penalty applies. The one unexamined commit (1 of the earlier commits) does not change this, because the behaviour is traced to bec346aa, which is visible.
The task commit 86c798e and its work-window diff are empty, but the three-term addition behaviour has a genuine, in-session origin. The general arithmetic engine arrived in bec346aa (probe #12, under task 90bd0d41, inside the session window). That commit adds tokenize, is_expression and evaluate to answerer/solver.py. is_expression accepts any odd-length alternating number/operator sequence of three or more tokens, and evaluate reduces them left to right with * and / before + and -. So 'what is X plus Y plus Z' is answered by the same general handler with no special case for the three-term shape, and no question ids, randomized values or memorized strings are involved. Building ahead inside the live session is legitimate play, and an empty diff for a task whose behaviour a general handler already covers is legitimate engineering. No pre-session origin is shown, so there is nothing to penalise.
The task commit 07de243 is empty, but the power behaviour was written in-session during this task's own probe cycle, so the empty commit is not evidence of cheating. Commit 68a9afe (probe #23, under task 68b65caa, inside the session window) adds answer_power, a general handler. It matches the template with a generic POWER regex that captures any signed or decimal base and exponent, and returns format_number(base ** exponent), with ZeroDivisionError/OverflowError mapped to UNKNOWN. Its tests use arbitrary values (6 to the power of 5 -> 7776, 2 to the power of -1 -> 0.5) and check undefined cases, not memorised ids or strings. Commit 4852ea7 (probe #21) is also in this task's window, though its diff was not included in the pack. The agent telemetry is empty, so it neither supports nor undermines the git evidence. The git history alone shows a genuine implementation, so no penalty applies.
Square-and-Cube question - which numbers are both a square and a cube
+60 points
Addition-Multiplication question - what is X plus Y multiplied by Z
+50 points
Multiplication-Addition question - what is X multiplied by Y plus Z
+30 points
Addition-Addition question - what is X plus Y plus Z
+20 points
The task commit 11ab60a changes no implementation code. Its only change in the window (9b52215..11ab60a) is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the touched-files section is empty. The power behaviour therefore did not arrive in this commit.
The question is whether it came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The commit log shows in-session commits for this task (start 080a675, probes #23 to #25), and earlier feature commits for addition (4bb3a49), multiplication (1e1c506), subtraction (35296b3) and maximum (ddd1ffb). Their diffs are not in the evidence pack, so I cannot see whether a general arithmetic handler was written there that absorbs the power case. Per the guidance, unseen commits support no conclusion, and a general handler from an earlier task is legitimate reuse.
Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls and messages). That is consistent with an empty task-marker commit, and missing stats are not evidence of cheating.
The probe results are mixed: one pass for 104976 (18^4) earned 20 points, while 15^0 and 13^5 returned 'I do not know'. Those misses are already priced in. Nothing in the pack shows hardcoding, special-casing of probe ids, or a pre-session origin, so no penalty is substantiated.
Addition-Addition question - what is X plus Y plus Z
+20 points
The task commit 70c81b7 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The Scrabble behaviour was written in-session in probe commit 2289a62 (#34), which sits after this task's start commit c204da2. That diff adds a general pick_scrabble handler to answer.sh. It extracts the word with sed -nE 's/.*scrabble score of[: ]*["']?([A-Za-z]+).*/\1/p', then sums per-letter values from a letter-group table (eaionrtlsu=1, dg=2, bcmp=3, fhvwy=4, k=5, jx=8, qz=10) via awk. It has no question ids, no randomized-value lookups and no memorised answers, so it is genuine general logic. The test.sh cases are the player's own examples (banana, buzzword, september). The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone shows in-session origin, so no penalty applies. An empty task-marker commit is a normal result when the work landed in an earlier in-session probe.
General knowledge question - fixed trivia cards
+10 points
+10 points
The task commit 65f47b3 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The anagram behaviour was written in-session in probe commits that sit after this task's start commit 88828c7. Probe #30 (11f7faa) adds a general pick_anagram handler. It extracts the clue with sed -nE 's/.*[Aa]nagram of[: ]*...', compares sorted-letter signatures via letter_signature, and excludes the clue word itself. It has no question ids, no randomized-value lookups and no memorised answer strings. Its test.sh cases use the player's own examples, including a different clue ('dictionary') and a different phrasing, so the logic is not tied to the four fixed sets. Probes #29 (a5b38f0), #31 (ee8580f) and #32 (de7fb1b) are also in-session, but their diffs were not shown, so I make no claim about them. Building ahead during live play is legitimate, and an empty task-marker commit is normal here. No penalty.
Scrabble question - what is the english scrabble score of X
+10 points
The task commit 5e94511c is empty, but the maximum-question behaviour was written during this task's own probe cycle, not smuggled in. The in-session commit a3cbe863 ("probe(c6ce9bcd...): #20") adds answer_largest to answerer/solver.py. The handler matches the question template (\blargest\b|\bmaximum\b|\bgreatest\b|\bbiggest\b), extracts every signed or decimal number with a generic NUMBER regex, and returns max() formatted via format_number. It is wired in through a HANDLERS tuple ahead of the arithmetic handler. Its tests use arbitrary lists (128, 721, 379, 850, 328 -> 850, -5, -2, 1.5 -> 1.5) and check the no-number case, so the logic is general, not keyed to probe ids, randomized values, or memorized strings. The prior probe results show a 40-point pass (answer 985), consistent with a working implementation. The agent statistics are absent, so they neither support nor undercut the git evidence. No penalty is warranted.
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
+40 points
The task commit ddd1ffb changes no implementation code. Its only change in the work window (60c463e..ddd1ffb) is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the 'Touched files before window' section is empty. So the maximum-question behaviour did not arrive in this commit.
The question is whether it came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The commit log shows in-session commits before this task: the start commit a9f673b and the probe commits 619eb23 (#19), c0c44a5 (#20), 5363809 (#21) and e00b26b (#22). The diffs of these commits are not in the evidence pack, so where the handler was written cannot be seen. The prior feature commits (4bb3a49 addition, 35296b3 subtraction, 1e1c506 multiplication) are also in-session, but their diffs are not shown either, so I cannot tell whether a general arithmetic or selection handler was built there.
The prior task results also show the handler failing on several maximum-question probes (-5 each) before a 40-point pass. That pattern fits in-session iteration rather than a pre-baked answer. Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls and messages), but the guidance treats missing or empty stats as supporting evidence only.
No pre-implementation, hardcoding or faking is substantiated by the pack. Unseen commits support no conclusion, and an empty task-marker commit is normal. Rating 0. This matches the reasoning in my earlier verdicts on the other empty-diff tasks in this session.
The task commit 29275570 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The Fibonacci behaviour was written in-session in probe commit bfb6843 (#28), which sits after the task's start commit 810c81f. That diff adds a general pick_fibonacci handler to answer.sh. It matches the 'Fibonacci' template, extracts the ordinal with sed -nE 's/.*[^0-9]([0-9]+)(st|nd|rd|th) .*/\1/p', and computes F(n-1) with a generic awk loop (a=0, b=1). It has no question ids, no randomized value lookups and no memorised answers. The test.sh cases are the player's own examples (16th and 1st), and the general loop handles any n. Probe #27 (2b3c7f5) is also in-session but its diff was not shown, so I cannot say what it contains. An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work lands in an earlier probe commit, so this is building ahead during live play rather than pre-implementation. No agent statistics were reported, which is not evidence either way. No penalty.
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
Anagram question - which word is an anagram of X
+40 points
+50 points
The task commit dfa0df7 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The primes behaviour was written in-session in this task's own probe commits, which sit after the start commit 52eb95f: #25 (65a1105) and #26 (3198ab3).
Probe #26 adds a general pick_primes handler to answer.sh. It matches the 'prime' template and passes a trial-division predicate, if (x < 2) return 0; for (k = 2; k * k <= x; k++) if (x % k == 0) return 0; return 1, into a shared filter_numbers awk helper. That helper extracts numbers after the last colon and keeps the ones that satisfy the predicate. It has no question ids, no literal value lookups and no memorised answer strings, so it is genuine general logic. The test.sh case uses the probe's own example, which is ordinary testing.
An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work landed in an earlier commit of the same task. Nothing here was pre-implemented or faked, so there is no penalty.
Fibonacci question - what is the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence
+60 points
The task commit 763d2f2 is empty, but that is not evidence of cheating. The multiplication behaviour arrived in an earlier in-session commit, bec346aa (probe #12, during the 'Set up project structure' task window). That commit adds a general expression evaluator to answerer/solver.py: a tokenizer mapping 'multiplied by', 'times' and 'x' to '*', an alternating number/operator check, and precedence-aware evaluation. The accompanying tests in tests/test_answerer.py cover 'what is 6 multiplied by 7' -> '42' and '1.5 x 2' -> '3'. None of this matches specific question ids, randomized values or memorized strings, so it is a genuine implementation. Its origin is inside the session, so it counts as building ahead, which is play rather than pre-implementation. The earlier commit range (c94b54f through 5a9db37) also shows the project scaffolding being built during the session. No penalty is warranted.
No penalty can be substantiated here, and the evidence points to the task simply not being implemented.
The task commit fe860a2 is empty, and the window diff is empty. The only in-session code that touches the answer logic is in bec346aa (probe #12), which adds arithmetic evaluation to answerer/solver.py. Its answer() returns UNKNOWN for any question that is not an arithmetic expression. The state left by the 6c10 commit, which the task commit inherits unchanged, therefore answers "what is your name" with "I don't know". Nothing in the shown evidence adds a name handler, so there is no pre-implemented behaviour to charge for.
The probe commit for this task, 9b07c52 (#14), is not in the shown diffs, so its content is unseen. The judge cannot rule out that it changed something, but nothing in the pack shows a name answer that predates the session. Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls, zero messages), which is consistent with no implementation work, not with pasted code.
Because the required behaviour does not appear to exist at the task's final state, the player most likely earned no points for it. Per the rules, unfinished work is scored 0. This is not a case of hidden pre-implementation.
The task commit 03c0f18 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The square-and-cube behaviour was written in-session in this task's own probe commit 0b67dcd (#24, probe(513967bb-...)), which sits after the task's start commit 6123a7b. That diff adds a general pick_square_cube function to answer.sh. It matches the 'square and a cube' template, extracts every number after the last colon with grep -Eo, and keeps n where k = int(n^(1/6)+0.5) satisfies k^6 == n. It has no question ids, no randomized value lookups and no memorised answer strings. The test.sh case uses the probe's own example, and the general logic handles any candidate pool. An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work landed in an earlier commit of the same task, so this is genuine implementation, not pre-implementation or faking.
The task commit 24b8532f changes nothing, so the behaviour must have arrived earlier. It did, in an in-session commit: bec346aa (probe #12, under task 90bd0d41, inside the session window) adds a general tokenizer and evaluator to answerer/solver.py. That code maps the word "minus" to "-" via WORD_OPERATORS, applies it with operator.sub through OPERATIONS, and is covered by a test (What is 7 minus 10? -> -3). This is a general expression evaluator, not a lookup on question ids or values, and it returns a negative result where the task asks for one. Building ahead and letting a general handler absorb a later task is legitimate play, so this is not pre-implementation. The earlier scaffold in c94b54fb and the session-start snapshots show no subtraction logic, and the agent statistics are empty, which is not evidence of cheating on its own. The probe result of 10 points with the answer -7 is consistent with the genuine implementation. No penalty.
This task's commit (0bb3d2e) is empty, but that is not cheating. The addition behaviour was written during the session in an earlier in-session commit, bec346aa (probe for task #12, "Set up project structure"). That diff adds a general arithmetic engine to answerer/solver.py: a regex tokenizer (tokenize) that maps "plus", "minus", "times", "divided by", and symbols to operators, is_expression validation, and evaluate with *// then +/- precedence. Its tests (ArithmeticTest) use varied operators and values, not fixed question strings or ids. Because this general handler already answers "what is X plus Y", an empty diff for this task is legitimate reuse of earlier in-session work. The before-state of solver.py (commit 5a9db37 and earlier) returns UNKNOWN for everything, so the handler did not pre-exist the session. The agent telemetry is empty, which is not evidence of cheating on its own. No penalty.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
Primes question - which of the following numbers are primes
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+60 points
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
+10 points
+10 points
Task commit 945bc30 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The behaviour was already present from an earlier in-session commit, which is a legitimate reason for an empty task commit.
The origin is in-session. Commit 76669864 (probe #10, 'Set up project structure and answer.sh contract') sits between the session-start commit and the probe commits. Its diff rewrites answer.sh so that s/ (plus|added to) / + /g and s/ (times|multiplied by) / * /g map word operators to symbols, and the result is evaluated generically through awk "BEGIN{print $expr_part}". For 'what is 2 plus 3 multiplied by 4', the pipeline yields 2 + 3 * 4, and awk's standard precedence gives 14, which is the required n1 + n2*n3.
This is a general operator mapping plus a general arithmetic evaluator. It has no question ids, no randomized value lookups and no memorised strings. It is building ahead, which the rules treat as legitimate play, not pre-implementation. No penalty applies. Agent telemetry is empty, so it neither corroborates nor undermines this reading, and the git history alone supports a score of 0.
The task commit f44f47f is empty, so the window adds no lines. The behaviour it asks for, n1*n2+n3 from 'what is X multiplied by Y plus Z', arrived in an earlier in-session commit.
Commit 76669864 (probe #10, inside this session, after the session-start snapshot e2e70ed) rewrote answer.sh to map word operators generically: s/ (plus|added to) / + /g and s/ (times|multiplied by) / * /g. It then evaluates the expression with awk "BEGIN{print $expr_part}". Operator precedence therefore comes from awk, so 'multiplied by ... plus' evaluates as n1*n2+n3 with no question ids, values or memorised strings. This is general logic that the player built ahead of this task, which the rules treat as legitimate play.
Later in-session commits (e.g. 080fb190, f99c657) add handlers for other question types and do not touch the arithmetic path. Commits 727d2338 (this task's probe #21) and b18e2709 are not shown with diffs, so I cannot say what they changed. Nothing in the visible evidence suggests hardcoding or pre-session origin. No penalty.
The task commit 0bfb833 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The three-term addition behaviour arrived earlier in the session, in probe commit 76669864 (probe #10, between the session-start snapshot e2e70ed and the task's start commit). Its diff rewrites answer.sh so that the word operators map to symbols generically: s/ (plus|added to) / + /g. It then evaluates the whole expression with awk "BEGIN{print $expr_part}". That path already turns 'what is 1 plus 2 plus 3' into '1 + 2 + 3' and returns 6. It is not keyed to question ids, operand values or literal strings, so it is building ahead during live play, not pre-implementation. The task's prior result (points 30) is consistent with this general handler. An empty task-marker commit is normal here, and no penalty is supported.
The task commit 3bdcb7e is empty, but the power behaviour was written in-session in this task's own probe commit 080fb19 (#19), which sits after the session-start commit 9622cd6. That diff adds a general pick_power function to answer.sh. It extracts two operands with a regex keyed to the "to the power of" template, then computes $1 ^ $2 through awk. It has no question ids, no randomized value lookups and no memorised strings. Probe #18 (785712d) and #19 both sit in the session, and the test.sh cases only exercise the general path (20^5 and 0^0). An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work landed in an earlier commit of the same task, so this is genuine implementation, not pre-implementation or faking. No penalty.
Square-and-Cube question - which numbers are both a square and a cube
+60 points
Addition-Multiplication question - what is X plus Y multiplied by Z
+50 points
Multiplication-Addition question - what is X multiplied by Y plus Z
+30 points
Addition-Addition question - what is X plus Y plus Z
+20 points
+10 points
The task commit 1e1c506 contains no implementation: its only change in the work window is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755). The 'Touched files before window' section is empty. So the question is whether the multiplication behaviour arrived in an earlier in-session commit or predates the session.
The evidence neither shows it predating the session nor proves an in-session origin. The commit log has in-session commits before this one: the start commit e8ad16e and the probe commit c428a95 for this task, plus the feature commits 4bb3a49 (addition) and 35296b30 (subtraction). Their diffs are not in the pack, so I cannot see whether a general arithmetic handler was written there. The root commit 4fb5737 is a session-start snapshot, and I cannot see its contents either. Per the evidence rules, unseen commits are not evidence of pre-implementation.
The agent statistics are empty (no agents, zero tool calls), but missing telemetry is not evidence of cheating. An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work landed in an earlier commit, and a general handler built for addition or subtraction could legitimately absorb multiplication. I have no concrete evidence of a hardcoded answer, a faked output, or pre-session code, so I score 0.
This task's commit (35296b3) changes only the file mode of AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755) and adds no lines, so the window contains no subtraction implementation. The question is whether the behaviour predates the session or arrived in an earlier in-session commit. The commit log shows the subtraction work in-session: start(cdaf54c) 'Subtraction question', then probe(9c3c39d) '#17 Subtraction question'. The diffs of cdaf54c and 9c3c39d are not in the evidence pack, so where the handler was written cannot be seen. The addition commit (4bb3a49) also precedes it and may have included a general handler, but that diff is not shown either. Unseen commits support no conclusion, and I cannot establish pre-implementation from this record. The agent statistics are empty, which is not evidence on its own. The task's own probe outcome is also not shown. No penalty is substantiated, so I score 0.
This task's commit b681d82 changes no implementation code. The only diff in the range bddcf00..b681d82 is a file mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755), and the window touched no other files. The task's behaviour therefore did not arrive in this commit, and the agent telemetry covers a window of about one second with zero tool calls, which is expected for an empty task-marker commit.
The question is whether the handler arrived in an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The in-session commits for this task are cd11fc5 (start) and aad4959 (probe #15). Earlier in-session work also includes 49d491f (task 0 feat), which may have built the answer.sh contract and possibly the handler. None of these diffs are in the pack, so I cannot see where the "what is your name" logic was written. The session-start snapshot 4fb5737 is also not shown, so I cannot establish that the behaviour was present there.
The probe results show a positive score of 10 for this task. Without evidence that the code predates the session, or that it was hardcoded or special-cased, I cannot substantiate a penalty. Building ahead within the live session is legitimate. Rating 0.
The task commit 4bb3a49 changes no code: its only change in the work window is a file-mode change on AGENTS.md (100644 to 100755). The addition behaviour therefore did not arrive in this window, so the question is whether it came from an earlier in-session commit or predates the session. The evidence pack does not settle this. The task's start commit f1d3f59 and the in-session feat commits (49d491f, b681d82) are listed, but their diffs are not included, so I cannot see where the addition handler was introduced. The root snapshot 4fb5737 also has no visible content. Agent telemetry is empty (zero tool calls and messages), but the guidance treats that as supporting evidence only. With no visible pre-session origin and no proof of a hardcoded or faked implementation, I cannot substantiate a penalty and return 0. Note that building ahead in an earlier in-session commit is legitimate play.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
The task commit 044994458 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The maximum behaviour was written earlier in this session, in probe commit f99c657 (probe(c6ce9bcd-...): #17), which sits between the session start 94f4f24 and the task commit. That diff adds a general pick_extreme function to answer.sh. It takes the text after the last colon, extracts numbers with grep -Eo, and picks the max with sort -gr | head -1 for largest/biggest/maximum/highest, or the min for smallest/lowest/minimum. It has no question ids, no literal value lookups and no memorised strings. The same commit adds test.sh cases for largest and smallest. Because the code arrived in an in-session commit, this is building ahead or the same-task probe iteration, not pre-implementation. An empty task-marker commit is normal here. Nothing in the evidence shows hardcoding or faking, so the rating is 0.
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
+40 points
Task commit 9d0961f is empty, and the work-window diff (897829c..9d0961f) is empty, so this task added nothing. The task is also not pre-implemented in any way the evidence can show. Every in-session commit whose diff is visible (76669864 #10, 68c9cd03 #8, 4d24024 #5) builds the same answer.sh, which has no name handler. Its fallback is echo "I don't know the answer to: $question". I found no in-session commit that adds a "what is your name" branch, and no pre-session file that contains one. The pack does not show the diffs of ba93e7c (#12 warmup probe), f90230d, 5c87c11 or 897829c (#13 addition probe). Those commits are summarised only as having changed nothing, so I cannot rule them out, and I will not draw a conclusion from them.
The probe record is ambiguous. One prior result shows 10 points for an answer of "I don't know the answer to: 8bif6mxw: what is your name", which is not a name response. Whether that 10-point result belongs to this task cannot be determined from the pack. The gap is a failure to implement the handler, not evidence that a pre-built implementation was smuggled in, and there is no tampering or special-casing to penalise. Under the evidence standard I cannot substantiate a penalty, so I score 0. The player's code does not answer the question, and that shortfall is already reflected in the probe results.
This task's commit (325f4b62) is empty, so the task added no code of its own. The behaviour it needs was written during the live session in an earlier commit. Commit 76669864b67a05719f3c0a38d0fb8abd2732aabc, a probe commit for the earlier 'Set up project structure' task (#10), changed answer.sh to rewrite 'multiplied by' and 'times' into '*' before evaluating the expression with awk. Its diff hunk includes s/ (times|multiplied by) / * /g. That commit sits between the in-session start and probe commits, after the session-start snapshot e2e70ed, so the origin is in-session. This is building ahead, which is legitimate play. The handler is also general: it evaluates any operands through awk rather than matching specific values. No pre-implementation or hardcoding is shown, so no penalty applies.
This task's commit 2be7ee2 is empty, so the diff itself adds nothing. The behaviour it asks for was already in place from earlier in-session commits, which is a legitimate reason for an empty task commit. Commit 76669864 (task 90bd0d41, probe #10) rewrote answer.sh so that the word forms 'plus', 'minus', 'times' and 'divided by' map to operators (s/ (plus|added to) / + /g) and the expression is evaluated generically through awk. That general evaluator is the same code path that handles 'What is 2 + 3?' from commit a8a81bf. It is not keyed to specific question ids or values, so it counts as legitimate reuse or building ahead, not pre-implementation. The addition task needed no further change, and the probe #13 commit 897829c shows no code change in the pack. I found no hardcoding, faked output, or pre-session origin for this behaviour. Score 0.
The task commit 817f7992 is empty, so this window adds no lines. The subtraction behaviour did arrive in an earlier in-session commit. Commit 76669864 (probe #10, 'Set up project structure and answer.sh contract', inside this session) changes answer.sh to rewrite word operators generically: s/ (minus|subtract(ed)? by) / - /g, then evaluates the expression with awk. That is a general operator mapping, not a lookup of specific question ids or values, and it is the kind of building ahead the rules treat as play. The session's start commit (3d1aa88) and the probe commit (8afc599) both sit inside the session, so the origin is in-session and not pre-existing. An empty task-marker commit is normal when the work landed earlier. No agent statistics were reported, so nothing there counts against the player. No penalty.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
+10 points
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
The task commit 8366e12 is empty, but that is legitimate. The maximum-question behaviour arrived in the in-session probe commit f1af0d5 (probe #16, after the session-start snapshot 59e187d). That diff adds a general handler to answer.sh: it matches 'largest', 'maximum' or 'biggest', takes the list after the last colon, normalises separators with tr, and computes the max with awk ($1 + 0 > max). It has no question ids, fixed operands or memorised answers. Its test.sh cases ('largest of a list' -> 926 with a tagged prefix, and a single-element list) exercise the general logic. Building ahead within the live session is allowed, so nothing predates the session. The prior-task result of 40 points with answer 994 is consistent with a genuine computation over a list of values in [0,1000]. No agent statistics were reported, which is treated as missing rather than as evidence of cheating. No penalty.
Power question - what is X to the power of Y
+40 points
+10 points
+10 points
The task commit e4ba3fe is empty, so this task's window adds nothing. The behaviour it needs ("what is X minus Y") has an in-session origin. Commit 548538b (probe #7, task 90bd0d41, the setup task) changed answer.sh to add generic arithmetic parsing. That diff maps the word "minus" to "-" (sed -e 's/minus/-/g'), extracts <a> <op> <b> with awk, and computes a - b through a general operator branch. It is not keyed to specific question ids or values. It also has a test, check "word minus" "-1" "$(ask "what is 3 minus 4")", which exercises negative differences. The later subtraction task therefore reuses an earlier in-session handler. The agent statistics are empty, but that absence is not evidence of cheating. Building ahead during the live session is legitimate, and an empty task-marker commit with the work landing earlier is normal. No pre-session or hardcoded implementation is shown, so no penalty applies.
This task's commit (4799575) is empty, so the multiplication behaviour was not written in its own window. The behaviour does have an in-session origin. answer.sh was created in d41c530 (feat, Set up project structure), inside this session after the snapshot at 59e187d. Commit 548538b (probe #7, Set up project structure) then added a general arithmetic handler. Its sed maps "multiplied by" and "times" to *, and the awk evaluator handles +, -, *, and / on any operands. The test suite in that same commit includes "word times" (3 times 4 -> 12) and "symbol operator", so the multiplication case was covered by a general implementation. The prior task results also show 10 points for this task. Under the rules, an earlier in-session general implementation that already handles this task's case is legitimate engineering, not pre-implementation. The agent telemetry is empty, but it is not needed to reach this result. No penalty.
The task commit 1effbbd is an empty task-marker commit. The work window e381398..1effbbd changes nothing, so this task contributed no code. The judge's question is whether the name-answering behaviour predates the session, so I checked the in-session commits that did change code. The visible diffs (answer.sh and test.sh across 938a3e7 through 548538b, plus the AGENTS.md/coverage.sh scaffolding in f568ae4) contain no handler for 'what is your name' and no participant-name value. The arithmetic handler added in 548538b does not answer name questions. Nothing in the pack shows a name answer appearing in the session or existing before it, so I have no evidence of a pre-implemented or hardcoded answer. Agent telemetry is empty (0 tool calls, 0 messages), which is consistent with no in-window implementation but is not evidence of cheating by itself. The skipped commits (13 'changed nothing') are not examined. Probe results are ambiguous: one prior entry shows 10 points with an empty answer, which does not indicate a genuine passing answer for this task. With no provable deception that bought points, the rating is 0.
This task's commit (74d8c0f3) is empty, but that is legitimate here. The addition behaviour arrived in an earlier in-session commit, 548538b393a96bc2c51832e8da725296781891de (probe #7 for task 90bd0d41). That commit's diff to answer.sh adds a general arithmetic parser. It lowercases the question, maps the words 'plus', 'minus', 'times' and 'divided by' to operators, extracts ' ' with awk, and computes the result. It has no question ids or fixed operand values. Its test.sh cases include 'word plus' ("what is 3 plus 4" -> 7), which covers this task's template. Since this commit lies after the session-start snapshot (59e187d), this is building ahead within the live session, which is permitted. The agent telemetry is empty, but the git history alone supports a genuine implementation, so no penalty applies.
The task commit d41c530 is an empty task-marker commit, but the work landed earlier in the same session, which is normal. The in-session commit f568ae4 (probe #3, inside this task's window, after the session-start snapshot 59e187d and the task start 907e561) adds AGENTS.md with run: sh answer.sh, test: sh test.sh and coverage: sh coverage.sh, plus a working answer.sh that parses -q, a test.sh and a coverage.sh. That origin is in-session, so nothing predates the session. The later arithmetic handling in 548538b (probe #7) is generic: it strips any <tag>: prefix and evaluates <a> <op> <b> from symbols or words, with no matching of specific question ids or values. The setup requirements are met by genuine in-session code, so no penalty applies.
Maximum question - which of the following numbers is the largest
+10 points
Multiplication question - what is X multiplied by Y
+10 points
Subtraction question - what is X minus Y
+10 points
Addition question - what is X plus Y
+10 points
Warmup question - what is your name
+10 points
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract
Set up project structure and answer.sh contract