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April 2024 - Solution

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April 2024 Challenge


April 2024 Solution:

For the two-game question, the solution is 16511310.

For the three-game question, the solution is 1169723214.

An easy way to obtain theses solutions is analyizing each game by itself, identifing the number of steps needed to reach a winning state, and for each pair/triplet of steps number for the games, use the chinese remainder theorem to obtain the smallest number of steps giving the needed number of steps modulo the cycle length in each game.