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Here is x.cgi script, currently in Perl. It would be good to develop Python version simultaneously, so people could test/investigate it locally with more convenience (since Python is many times more popular currently).

No superb knowledge of Perl is required as the script is only about 1kb size. However questions are welcome (probably I'll produce description soon also).

When the page is loaded we ask user for nickname.

Let's store current location and flags in the sessionStorage for example, under the given nickname - and if user enters
nickname which already was stored, offer to continue game, rather than start from beginning.

Current version of Find-a-Match checker (file cgi-bin/dat/3410.sh) is a shell script. We are not going to support it in future for
various reasons - so please create 3410.py version (in Python) of it, or optionally in Perl (3410.pl then).

Suppose the script is called with two arguments in command line - first of them seed for randomizer. The second (optional) is the user's answer.

If answer is not provided, generate few hundreds of numbers, all different, then duplicate any single of them and shuffle.

If user provides answer which matches duplicated element (for given seed), output success message ending with flag separated with colon :mtcze in this case, I think. Otherwise produce error message.