Hello all! I have another contest to share with you all.

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Abakoda was an initiative by NOI.PH (the Philippines' olympiad) to run a series of beginner-friendly weekly contests, which ultimately culminated in a long contest. Contestants were given a little under 10 days to solve 13 problems. We have decided to share these problems with the general Codeforces community.

I feel very strongly that good beginner contests are required in order to lower the barrier to competitive programming. And I'm quite proud of the set that I ended up writing! The problems should be approachable for beginners... but that said, I think there are a handful of problems that more experienced contestants might find interesting anyway :)

The contest link is here: https://codeforces.com/gym/104146

Enjoy!

Thanks to verngutz for helping me set one of the problems, and thanks to ongyiumark and lyreloi and cerebi for helping me with testing!