diff --git a/2016/07/1.pl b/2016/07/1.pl
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+# 117 is too high
+# 108 is too high
+
+use 5.20.0;
+use experimental qw/ signatures /;
+use List::AllUtils qw/ reduce none all any /;
+use DDP; 
+
+say scalar
+grep { 
+    any { has_sequence($_) } split /\[.*?\]/;
+}
+grep {
+    none { has_sequence($_) } /\[(.*?)\]/g;
+} map { chomp; $_ } <>;
+
+sub has_sequence($s) {
+    return $s =~ /(.)(?!\1)(.)\2\1/;
+}
diff --git a/2016/07/2.pl b/2016/07/2.pl
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+use 5.20.0;
+use experimental qw/ signatures /;
+use List::AllUtils qw/ reduce none all any /;
+use DDP; 
+
+say scalar
+grep {
+    has_sequence($_)
+} map { chomp; $_ } <>;
+
+sub has_sequence($s) {
+    my @inner = $s =~ /\[(.*?)\]/g;
+
+    for ( split /\[.*?\]/ ) {
+        while( length($_) >= 3 ) {
+            my $sub = substr $_, 0, 3;
+            if( $sub =~ /(.)(?!\1)(.)\1/ ) {
+                my $code = "$2$1$2";
+                return 1 if any { -1 < index $_, $code } @inner;
+            }
+            s/^.//;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return;
+}
diff --git a/2016/07/test b/2016/07/test
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+aaaa[qwer]tyui
+ioxxoj[asdfgh]zxcvbn
+