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

[rfergus]

Simple first pass solution with minimal tools. Only saw one other use this same method. It works for this data set, but might not if there is a different balance of scroogieness. Might be time to learn macros.

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[nitinpatkar1984]

Catching up!!

[Samuel_To]

Hi @JoeM ,

Here is my solution. 

Best Regards,

Samuel

[Carlithian]

Finally getting round to submitting my answer even though I suggested it XD

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I chose to have two workflows, the first which would allow people to opt in if they wanted to participate (and also put down a Christmas wish) these were saved to a yxdb and a second to be ran to allocate out across those opted in. Worked really well in the office :)

[cbrettlockard]

I know I'm way late to the game, and therefore the Secret Santa theme isn't as timely, but this looked like fun, so I decided to go ahead and tackle it.  I ended up with a different set of matches than the included solution (1 the same, but the other 25 different), but I believe my solution meets the criteria.  However, I'm not 100% sure my solution is foolproof, if some higher scroogieness scores made a solution harder to come by.

[JoshuaGostick]

My solution :)

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[dicky5150]

Hi,

My first attempt at a challenge ! Enjoyed it !

[cplewis90]

Ah the scrooginess! I may be somewhat high on the scrooge scale as I always tell my wife Christmas music is reserved for Christmas day

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[TonyA]

Unless I missed something, this was probably the simplest of the beginner-rated challenges that I've seen. My solution is similar to Patrick Digan's.

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Sort the list by Scrooginess. Use the sample tool to split the first half and last half into separate data sets, then reverse the sort on one half and do a join on record positions. Sum the two scroogieness columns. You'll have unique pairings and the lowest set of pair values

[hanykowska]

not a very flexible solution but it does the job