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Nim
That was the rough first day for me. Part 1 was ok. For part 2 I didn't want to go the easy route, so I was trying to find simple formulaic solution, but my answer was always off by some amount. And debugging was hard, because I I was getting the right answer for example input.
After 40 minutes I wiped everything clean and wrote a bruteforce.
Later that day I returned and solved this one properly. I had to draw many schemes and consider all the edge cases carefully to come up with code below.
Full solution at Codeberg: solution.nim