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Maximize Unique Characters

Select words to maximize unique characters with no repeats

Overview

Given a list of words, select a subset that maximizes the total number of unique characters. No character may appear more than once across all selected words, and words with internal duplicate characters are invalid.

Rules

  • Select a subset of the given strings
  • No character may appear more than once across the entire selected subset
  • Words containing duplicate characters within themselves cannot be selected
  • Raise TypeError if any element is not a string

Scoring

Gradient scoring based on test cases passed (9 tests total).

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