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Hello, I got I question… Can I solve a challenge that have already links in the others.lst of its folder?

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Yes you can, if its a hacking challenge the ideal scenario is 0 others, 0 internal solutions but you can solve it anyway, if its a programming challenge there’s no problem at all.

3

and if the challenge has no.featuare file and links in others.lst, it would count as unique solution or just as solution?

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It will count as a hacking solution, unique solutions are challenges that no one has either solved yet nor has external solutions in the repository (others)

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programming challenge counts as a unique solution as long as it doesn’t have a solution in the language I use for solve it?
edit: and others.lst doens’t have a raw in the language I use

6

just as a solution.

if you are an applicant during the selection process you need unique solutions!

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so when it count as a unique solution?
I think I get it all wrong :frowning:

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This topic has been already addressed in some post of this forum:

I hope this clarify all your doubts

9

I still have doubts :frowning:
when it is a programming challenge, in the folder’s challenge it can not be another solution in the same language neither a link with a solution in the same language.

When it is a hacking/vbd challenge, in the folder’s challenge it can not be another solution and others.lst must be empty
Am I right?

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Yes

Exactly, Others.lst must not exist

Indeed, that is what a unique challenge is :wink:

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All of this is in the documentation. Here it explains how a solution loses uniqueness https://gitlab.com/fluidattacks/writeups/-/wikis/Submission#4-uniqueness

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Good evening I have the same question, solved the 6 initial challenges but only one of the 6 is unique, so my questions to know if I understood:

  1. If I make a solution in .py and the file OTRO.lst there is a solution in .py it is no longer unique?, Therefore I would have to create a solution in a language that is not inside that folder and that also not in the OTHERS.lst?

  2. I made a solution from scratch in .js, that is, that solution had no folders, created an OTHER.lst file and put some solutions in .js, does that mean it was not a one-off solution? However, delete the OTHERS.lst file, and when I run the pipe I don’t get any errors, will I be accepted a merge with the deleted OTHER.lst file?

Thank you