- Added solutions by Laurent Rosenfeld.

- Added solutions by Andre Ploger.

27 files changed, 2595 insertions, 2512 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/blog.txt b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/blog.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3b16725c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/blog.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/09/perl-weekly-challenge-288-closest-palindrome.html
diff --git a/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-1.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2d709a504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use feature 'say';
+
+sub closest_palindrome {
+    my $in = shift;
+    my $i = 1;
+    while (1) {
+        return $in - $i if reverse($in - $i) eq $in - $i;
+        return $in + $i if reverse($in + $i) eq $in + $i;
+        $i++;
+    }
+}
+
+my @tests = (123, 2, 1400, 1001);
+for my $test (@tests) {
+    printf "%-6d => ", $test;
+    say closest_palindrome $test;
+}
diff --git a/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-1.raku b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-1.raku
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c00c271c2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-288/laurent-rosenfeld/raku/ch-1.raku
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+sub closest-palindrome ($in) {
+    for 1..Inf -> $i {
+        return $in - $i if ($in - $i).flip eq $in - $i;
+        return $in + $i if ($in + $i).flip eq $in + $i;
+    }
+}
+
+my @tests = 123, 2, 1400, 1001;
+for @tests -> $test {
+    printf "%-6d => ", $test;
+    say closest-palindrome $test;
+}
diff --git a/members.json b/members.json
index 8186399b61..ad6e32cc5c 100644
--- a/members.json
+++ b/members.json
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     "andinus"               : "Andinus",
     "andreas-voegele"       : "Andreas Voegele",
     "andrew_mehta"          : "Andrew Mehta",
+    "aplgr"                 : "Andre Ploger",
     "asherbhs"              : "Asher Harvey-Smith",
     "atschneid"             : "Andrew Schneider",
     "augiedb"               : "Augie De Blieck Jr.",
diff --git a/stats/pwc-challenge-287.json b/stats/pwc-challenge-287.json
index 50bbf3da6f..945d6cd4ff 100644
--- a/stats/pwc-challenge-287.json
+++ b/stats/pwc-challenge-287.json
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 {
-   "subtitle" : {
-      "text" : "[Champions: 31] Last updated at 2024-09-23 14:42:09 GMT"
-   },
    "series" : [
       {
-         "colorByPoint" : 1,
-         "name" : "The Weekly Challenge - 287",
          "data" : [
             {
-               "name" : "Andrew Schneider",
-               "drilldown" : "Andrew Schneider",
+               "name" : "Andre Ploger",
+               "drilldown" : "Andre Ploger",
                "y" : 3
             },
             {
                "y" : 3,
+               "drilldown" : "Andrew Schneider",
+               "name" : "Andrew Schneider"
+            },
+            {
+               "name" : "Arne Sommer",
                "drilldown" : "Arne Sommer",
-               "name" : "Arne Sommer"
+               "y" : 3
             },
             {
                "drilldown" : "BarrOff",
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@
                "name" : "Bob Lied"
             },
             {
-               "y" : 2,
+               "drilldown" : "David Ferrone",
                "name" : "David Ferrone",
-               "drilldown" : "David Ferrone"
+               "y" : 2
             },
             {
-               "name" : "E. Choroba",
                "drilldown" : "E. Choroba",
+               "name" : "E. Choroba",
                "y" : 3
             },
             {
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@
                "name" : "Feng Chang"
             },
             {
-               "y" : 3,
                "drilldown" : "Jorg Sommrey",
-               "name" : "Jorg Sommrey"
+               "name" : "Jorg Sommrey",
+               "y" : 3
             },
             {
+               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Kjetil Skotheim",
-               "drilldown" : "Kjetil Skotheim",
-               "y" : 2
+               "drilldown" : "Kjetil Skotheim"
             },
             {
                "name" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
@@ -58,19 +58,19 @@
                "y" : 6
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Lubos Kolouch",
                "name" : "Lubos Kolouch",
+               "drilldown" : "Lubos Kolouch",
                "y" : 2
             },
             {
-               "y" : 12,
                "drilldown" : "Luca Ferrari",
-               "name" : "Luca Ferrari"
+               "name" : "Luca Ferrari",
+               "y" : 12
             },
             {
-               "y" : 2,
+               "name" : "Mark Anderson",
                "drilldown" : "Mark Anderson",
-               "name" : "Mark Anderson"
+               "y" : 2
             },
             {
                "y" : 2,
@@ -78,24 +78,24 @@
                "drilldown" : "Matthew Neleigh"
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Matthias Muth",
+               "y" : 3,
                "name" : "Matthias Muth",
-               "y" : 3
+               "drilldown" : "Matthias Muth"
             },
             {
+               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Niels van Dijke",
-               "drilldown" : "Niels van Dijke",
-               "y" : 2
+               "drilldown" : "Niels van Dijke"
             },
             {
+               "y" : 5,
                "drilldown" : "Packy Anderson",
-               "name" : "Packy Anderson",
-               "y" : 5
+               "name" : "Packy Anderson"
             },
             {
-               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Paulo Custodio",
-               "drilldown" : "Paulo Custodio"
+               "drilldown" : "Paulo Custodio",
+               "y" : 2
             },
             {
                "y" : 3,
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@
                "drilldown" : "Peter Campbell Smith"
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Peter Meszaros",
                "name" : "Peter Meszaros",
+               "drilldown" : "Peter Meszaros",
                "y" : 2
             },
             {
@@ -113,29 +113,29 @@
                "drilldown" : "Peter Pentchev"
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Reinier Maliepaard",
+               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Reinier Maliepaard",
-               "y" : 2
+               "drilldown" : "Reinier Maliepaard"
             },
             {
+               "y" : 3,
                "drilldown" : "Robbie Hatley",
-               "name" : "Robbie Hatley",
-               "y" : 3
+               "name" : "Robbie Hatley"
             },
             {
-               "y" : 2,
                "drilldown" : "Robert Ransbottom",
-               "name" : "Robert Ransbottom"
+               "name" : "Robert Ransbottom",
+               "y" : 2
             },
             {
-               "y" : 5,
+               "name" : "Roger Bell_West",
                "drilldown" : "Roger Bell_West",
-               "name" : "Roger Bell_West"
+               "y" : 5
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Santiago Leyva",
+               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Santiago Leyva",
-               "y" : 2
+               "drilldown" : "Santiago Leyva"
             },
             {
                "name" : "Simon Green",
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@
                "y" : 3
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Tim King",
+               "y" : 1,
                "name" : "Tim King",
-               "y" : 1
+               "drilldown" : "Tim King"
             },
             {
                "name" : "Ulrich Rieke",
@@ -153,26 +153,39 @@
                "y" : 4
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "W. Luis Mochan",
+               "y" : 3,
                "name" : "W. Luis Mochan",
-               "y" : 3
+               "drilldown" : "W. Luis Mochan"
             },
             {
-               "drilldown" : "Wanderdoc",
+               "y" : 2,
                "name" : "Wanderdoc",
-               "y" : 2
+               "drilldown" : "Wanderdoc"
             }
-         ]
+         ],
+         "colorByPoint" : 1,
+         "name" : "The Weekly Challenge - 287"
       }
    ],
    "title" : {
       "text" : "The Weekly Challenge - 287"
    },
+   "yAxis" : {
+      "title" : {
+         "text" : "Total Solutions"
+      }
+   },
+   "xAxis" : {
+      "type" : "category"
+   },
+   "legend" : {
+      "enabled" : 0
+   },
    "drilldown" : {
       "series" : [
          {
-            "id" : "Andrew Schneider",
-            "name" : "Andrew Schneider",
+            "name" : "Andre Ploger",
+            "id" : "Andre Ploger",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -185,7 +198,20 @@
             ]
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Arne Sommer",
+            "data" : [
+               [
+                  "Perl",
+                  2
+               ],
+               [
+                  "Blog",
+                  1
+               ]
+            ],
+            "name" : "Andrew Schneider",
+            "id" : "Andrew Schneider"
+         },
+         {
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
@@ -196,19 +222,21 @@
                   1
                ]
             ],
-            "id" : "Arne Sommer"
+            "id" : "Arne Sommer",
+            "name" : "Arne Sommer"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "BarrOff",
-            "name" : "BarrOff",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
                   1
                ]
-            ]
+            ],
+            "id" : "BarrOff",
+            "name" : "BarrOff"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Bob Lied",
             "name" : "Bob Lied",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -219,21 +247,19 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ],
-            "id" : "Bob Lied"
+            ]
          },
          {
+            "name" : "David Ferrone",
+            "id" : "David Ferrone",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "David Ferrone",
-            "id" : "David Ferrone"
+            ]
          },
          {
-            "name" : "E. Choroba",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -244,17 +270,18 @@
                   1
                ]
             ],
+            "name" : "E. Choroba",
             "id" : "E. Choroba"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Feng Chang",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "Feng Chang"
+            "name" : "Feng Chang",
+            "id" : "Feng Chang"
          },
          {
             "data" : [
@@ -271,16 +298,17 @@
             "id" : "Jorg Sommrey"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Kjetil Skotheim",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "Kjetil Skotheim"
+            "name" : "Kjetil Skotheim",
+            "id" : "Kjetil Skotheim"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
             "name" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -295,21 +323,19 @@
                   "Blog",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "id" : "Laurent Rosenfeld"
+            ]
          },
          {
+            "name" : "Lubos Kolouch",
+            "id" : "Lubos Kolouch",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Lubos Kolouch",
-            "id" : "Lubos Kolouch"
+            ]
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Luca Ferrari",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
@@ -320,30 +346,32 @@
                   10
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "Luca Ferrari"
+            "name" : "Luca Ferrari",
+            "id" : "Luca Ferrari"
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Mark Anderson",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "id" : "Mark Anderson"
+            "id" : "Mark Anderson",
+            "name" : "Mark Anderson"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Matthew Neleigh",
+            "name" : "Matthew Neleigh",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Matthew Neleigh",
-            "id" : "Matthew Neleigh"
+            ]
          },
          {
             "id" : "Matthias Muth",
+            "name" : "Matthias Muth",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -353,20 +381,20 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Matthias Muth"
+            ]
          },
          {
+            "name" : "Niels van Dijke",
             "id" : "Niels van Dijke",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Niels van Dijke"
+            ]
          },
          {
+            "name" : "Packy Anderson",
             "id" : "Packy Anderson",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -381,8 +409,7 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Packy Anderson"
+            ]
          },
          {
             "data" : [
@@ -395,6 +422,7 @@
             "id" : "Paulo Custodio"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Peter Campbell Smith",
             "name" : "Peter Campbell Smith",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -405,8 +433,7 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ],
-            "id" : "Peter Campbell Smith"
+            ]
          },
          {
             "data" : [
@@ -419,8 +446,6 @@
             "id" : "Peter Meszaros"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Peter Pentchev",
-            "name" : "Peter Pentchev",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -434,10 +459,11 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ]
+            ],
+            "name" : "Peter Pentchev",
+            "id" : "Peter Pentchev"
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Reinier Maliepaard",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -448,9 +474,11 @@
                   1
                ]
             ],
+            "name" : "Reinier Maliepaard",
             "id" : "Reinier Maliepaard"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Robbie Hatley",
             "name" : "Robbie Hatley",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -461,22 +489,21 @@
                   "Blog",
                   1
                ]
-            ],
-            "id" : "Robbie Hatley"
+            ]
          },
          {
+            "id" : "Robert Ransbottom",
+            "name" : "Robert Ransbottom",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Robert Ransbottom",
-            "id" : "Robert Ransbottom"
+            ]
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Roger Bell_West",
             "name" : "Roger Bell_West",
+            "id" : "Roger Bell_West",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -499,11 +526,10 @@
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "Santiago Leyva",
-            "id" : "Santiago Leyva"
+            "id" : "Santiago Leyva",
+            "name" : "Santiago Leyva"
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Simon Green",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -514,20 +540,20 @@
                   1
                ]
             ],
+            "name" : "Simon Green",
             "id" : "Simon Green"
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Tim King",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   1
                ]
             ],
+            "name" : "Tim King",
             "id" : "Tim King"
          },
          {
-            "name" : "Ulrich Rieke",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -538,7 +564,8 @@
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "id" : "Ulrich Rieke"
+            "id" : "Ulrich Rieke",
+            "name" : "Ulrich Rieke"
          },
          {
             "data" : [
@@ -555,43 +582,35 @@
             "id" : "W. Luis Mochan"
          },
          {
+            "name" : "Wanderdoc",
             "id" : "Wanderdoc",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
                   2
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Wanderdoc"
+            ]
          }
       ]
    },
-   "legend" : {
-      "enabled" : 0
+   "chart" : {
+      "type" : "column"
    },
-   "yAxis" : {
-      "title" : {
-         "text" : "Total Solutions"
-      }
+   "subtitle" : {
+      "text" : "[Champions: 32] Last updated at 2024-09-23 15:41:21 GMT"
    },
    "plotOptions" : {
       "series" : {
+         "borderWidth" : 0,
          "dataLabels" : {
             "enabled" : 1,
             "format" : "{point.y}"
-         },
-         "borderWidth" : 0
+         }
       }
    },
-   "chart" : {
-      "type" : "column"
-   },
    "tooltip" : {
+      "followPointer" : 1,
       "pointFormat" : "<span style='color:{point.color}'>{point.name}</span>: <b>{point.y:f}</b><br/>",
-      "headerFormat" : "<span style='font-size:11px'>{series.name}</span><br/>",
-      "followPointer" : 1
-   },
-   "xAxis" : {
-      "type" : "category"
+      "headerFormat" : "<span style='font-size:11px'>{series.name}</span><br/>"
    }
 }
diff --git a/stats/pwc-current.json b/stats/pwc-current.json
index 5c71f7ac7e..fd58aa433b 100644
--- a/stats/pwc-current.json
+++ b/stats/pwc-current.json
@@ -1,71 +1,42 @@
 {
-   "yAxis" : {
-      "title" : {
-         "text" : "Total Solutions"
-      }
-   },
-   "chart" : {
-      "type" : "column"
-   },
-   "legend" : {
-      "enabled" : 0
-   },
-   "xAxis" : {
-      "type" : "category"
-   },
-   "title" : {
-      "text" : "The Weekly Challenge - 288"
-   },
-   "plotOptions" : {
-      "series" : {
-         "borderWidth" : 0,
-         "dataLabels" : {
-            "format" : "{point.y}",
-            "enabled" : 1
-         }
-      }
-   },
-   "subtitle" : {
-      "text" : "[Champions: 3] Last updated at 2024-09-23 14:42:12 GMT"
+   "tooltip" : {
+      "pointFormat" : "<span style='color:{point.color}'>{point.name}</span>: <b>{point.y:f}</b><br/>",
+      "followPointer" : 1,
+      "headerFormat" : "<span style='font-size:11px'>{series.name}</span><br/>"
    },
-   "series" : [
-      {
-         "name" : "The Weekly Challenge - 288",
-         "colorByPoint" : 1,
-         "data" : [
-            {
-               "name" : "Feng Chang",
-               "drilldown" : "Feng Chang",
-               "y" : 2
-            },
-            {
-               "drilldown" : "Lubos Kolouch",
-               "y" : 2,
-               "name" : "Lubos Kolouch"
-            },
-            {
-               "drilldown" : "Luca Ferrari",
-               "y" : 5,
-               "name" : "Luca Ferrari"
-            }
-         ]
-      }
-   ],
    "drilldown" : {
       "series" : [
          {
-            "id" : "Feng Chang",
+            "name" : "Feng Chang",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Raku",
                   2
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "Feng Chang"
+            "id" : "Feng Chang"
+         },
+         {
+            "id" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
+            "data" : [
+               [
+                  "Perl",
+                  1
+               ],
+               [
+                  "Raku",
+                  1
+               ],
+               [
+                  "Blog",
+                  1
+               ]
+            ],
+            "name" : "Laurent Rosenfeld"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "Lubos Kolouch",
             "name" : "Lubos Kolouch",
+            "id" : "Lubos Kolouch",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -74,6 +45,7 @@
             ]
          },
          {
+            "name" : "Luca Ferrari",
             "id" : "Luca Ferrari",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -84,14 +56,65 @@
                   "Blog",
                   3
                ]
-            ],
-            "name" : "Luca Ferrari"
+            ]
          }
       ]
    },
-   "tooltip" : {
-      "followPointer" : 1,
-      "headerFormat" : "<span style='font-size:11px'>{series.name}</span><br/>",
-      "pointFormat" : "<span style='color:{point.color}'>{point.name}</span>: <b>{point.y:f}</b><br/>"
+   "plotOptions" : {
+      "series" : {
+         "borderWidth" : 0,
+         "dataLabels" : {
+            "enabled" : 1,
+            "format" : "{point.y}"
+         }
+      }
+   },
+   "chart" : {
+      "type" : "column"
+   },
+   "series" : [
+      {
+         "data" : [
+            {
+               "drilldown" : "Feng Chang",
+               "name" : "Feng Chang",
+               "y" : 2
+            },
+            {
+               "name" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
+               "drilldown" : "Laurent Rosenfeld",
+               "y" : 3
+            },
+            {
+               "drilldown" : "Lubos Kolouch",
+               "name" : "Lubos Kolouch",
+               "y" : 2
+            },
+            {
+               "y" : 5,
+               "name" : "Luca Ferrari",
+               "drilldown" : "Luca Ferrari"
+            }
+         ],
+         "name" : "The Weekly Challenge - 288",
+         "colorByPoint" : 1
+      }
+   ],
+   "subtitle" : {
+      "text" : "[Champions: 4] Last updated at 2024-09-23 15:41:58 GMT"
+   },
+   "yAxis" : {
+      "title" : {
+         "text" : "Total Solutions"
+      }
+   },
+   "title" : {
+      "text" : "The Weekly Challenge - 288"
+   },
+   "legend" : {
+      "enabled" : 0
+   },
+   "xAxis" : {
+      "type" : "category"
    }
 }
diff --git a/stats/pwc-language-breakdown-2019.json b/stats/pwc-language-breakdown-2019.json
index fbd646ff34..e762164cee 100644
--- a/stats/pwc-language-breakdown-2019.json
+++ b/stats/pwc-language-breakdown-2019.json
@@ -1,26 +1,9 @@
 {
-   "title" : {
-      "text" : "The Weekly Challenge Language"
-   },
-   "plotOptions" : {
-      "series" : {
-         "dataLabels" : {
-            "enabled" : 1,
-            "format" : "{point.y}"
-         },
-         "borderWidth" : 0
-      }
-   },
-   "tooltip" : {
-      "pointFormat" : "<span style=\"color:{point.color}\">Challenge {point.name}</span>: <b>{point.y:f}</b><br/>",
-      "headerFormat" : "<span style=\"font-size:11px\"></span>",
-      "followPointer" : "true"
-   },
    "drilldown" : {
       "series" : [
          {
-            "id" : "041",
             "name" : "041",
+            "id" : "041",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -37,7 +20,6 @@
             ]
          },
          {
-            "id" : "040",
             "name" : "040",
             "data" : [
                [
@@ -52,11 +34,11 @@
                   "Blog",
                   10
                ]
-            ]
+            ],
+            "id" : "040"
          },
          {
             "id" : "039",
-            "name" : "039",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -70,9 +52,11 @@
                   "Blog",
                   12
                ]
-            ]
+            ],
+            "name" : "039"
          },
          {
+            "id" : "038",
             "data" : [
                [
                   "Perl",
@@ -87,12 +71,9 @@
                   12
                ]
             ],
-            "name" : "038",
-            "id" : "038"
+            "name" : "038"
          },
          {
-            "id" : "037",
-            "name" : "037",
             "data" : [
                [