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ROBBERS' THREAD

A famous cops-and-robbers challenge whose source shall remain unnamed is brought to Codidact.

You are a cop. You should write a program in a "famous" (has an English Wikipedia/Esolangs/Rosetta Code page) language that prints Cops and Robbers. That's all it does - prints exactly this stream of bytes, with optional trailing output if your language absolutely has to make it.

Don't assume REPLs, existing boilerplate or nonstandard flags. If your code has bytes outside printable ASCII range, it should have a hexdump available.

Do not, and I repeat, do not edit the source of your program after posting. You might want to make your program polyglot-free.

Your goal is to be the writer of the shortest program whose language still hasn't been determined after 2 weeks or 14 days. If your program isn't cracked by then, you may choose to reveal the language yourself.

Good luck, all!

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Robbers' Challenge? (3 comments)
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Rockstar, cracked by Hakerh400, 126 bytes

I never thought of languages that would ignore everything except the strings - I should have stated that the solution should be irreducible. Hakerh400 gets the win here but Razetime got the correct answer after the fact.

Let the cops be "Cops"
The conjunction is " and "
The robbers are "Robbers"
Say the cops with the conjunction with the robbers

(This would also work for a lot less bytes ...

Say "Cops and Robbers"

... but it would be a polyglot with Perl)

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Hakerh400‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Shaggy‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Not my intended solution(s), Hakerh400‭; I hadn't thought of languages that behave like that - should've stuck with my original version instead of opting for the shorter one or, at least, stated that the solution should be irreducible. Have the "W" nonetheless, but I won't reveal the intended solution just yet in case someone wants to try for it.

Razetime‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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the actual language is Rockstar

Shaggy‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Correct, Razetime‭; do you want to post that to the robbers' challenge?

Razetime‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Haker's crack is still correct, so no

Shaggy‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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I would credit you both, of course.