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Challenge #144: Secret Santa Assignments (BAH HUMBUG!)

Si-Pri
8 - Asteroid

My pairings are different to the output, but less then 13 so I think it counts!

fmeo
8 - Asteroid
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Marcel_Gavrila
8 - Asteroid

Here's my solution!

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RWvanLeeuwen
11 - Bolide
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I matched the good guys with the scrooges with sorting, splitting and a join by position

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justindavis
10 - Fireball
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I liked this idea of rating different entities on some factor you want to balance, and setting balanced pairs. Could be used for teambuilding events.

MikeHinz
8 - Asteroid

I tried to make it more complicated then it needed to be and ended up coming back to the simple way:

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SarkaHubacek
8 - Asteroid
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alex
11 - Bolide

2 iterative macro solutions using different methodologies with different but correct solutions.  First macro produces 1 result with total scroogieness index of 2 and will find more matches if the pool of individuals had higher scoogieness numbers than the example.

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Macro A seeks to match highest scroogieness person to another person that would bring total index as close to 13.

144 B Macro144 B Macro

Macro B seeks to match highest scroogieness to lowest scroogieness person available.  In certain situations Macro B may not produce as many matches as Macro A.

Tested both to ensue outputs correctly for odd number of participants.
T_Willins
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Completing previous challenges.

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rougeau14
6 - Meteoroid
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