Hey Kacarott! The other players are definitely not random indeed :-) I've added a succinct summary of what their strategy is about, at the end of the description.

Thank you for the interest you show for this kata, and good luck solving it!

I provided an update to the guidelines.

So I have started working on this now, and I am kind of enjoying the challenge of figuring out how the other players logic works. Having said that, mentioning that they aren't just random players might be nice.

Maybe though, you should give some hints about the way of thinking of your bot. Just enough to give users a fair chance to beating this bot.

3,000 games (15,217 rounds) played in 4.68 s

Player 0 | Victories: 790 – Winner 🎉
Player 1 | Victories: 588
Player 2 | Victories: 598
Player 3 | Victories: 563
Player 4 | Victories: 545

Player 0 wins 37.75 % more than the average of the other players 🎉 🎉

Yes!!! Thank you!!! I started to get worried that no one was interested... with still zero solves after more than six months.

The control solution — my own strategy of playing Skyjo — wins about 17 % more than the average of the other players. Does your solution achieve a similar percentage?

Congrats, and thanks again for writing to me :-)

Brutal kata, well done

My pleasure! Thanks for your message. Keen for another challenge? I have a few other katas, including one that is still in Beta ;-) https://www.codewars.com/kata/688b957a12698cb53d5959fe Enjoy!

Thanks for the fun kata!
I really enjoyed implementing both a queue-based simulation and a more compact array-manipulation approach.
Clean logic, great practice — appreciate the challenge!