I'm curious, is the winner determined by taking the decimal of the last two characters % 100 or do you intend to only look at digits?
Examples:
Hash for block 609023
00000000000000000013d8284f1049d43daec6cdcb1d1ca7d4ef0adc652
1cfe
9The winner would be 19
Hash for block 609029
0000000000000000000513ab541ec7e41e5faaf0aff3b9a74bcf16443b7fb
01a
The winner would be 01
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