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//package codeforces;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class A implements Closeable {
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out)));

    A() throws IOException {
//        reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("input.txt"));
//        writer = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("output.txt"));
    }

    StringTokenizer stringTokenizer;

    String next() throws IOException {
        while (stringTokenizer == null || !stringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
            stringTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(reader.readLine());
        }
        return stringTokenizer.nextToken();
    }

    int nextInt() throws IOException {
        return Integer.parseInt(next());
    }

    long nextLong() throws IOException {
        return Long.parseLong(next());
    }

    double nextDouble() throws IOException {
        return Double.parseDouble(next());
    }

    private int MOD = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 + 7;

    int sum(int a, int b) {
        a += b;
        return a >= MOD ? a - MOD : a;
    }

    int product(int a, int b) {
        return (int) (1l * a * b % MOD);
    }

    int pow(int x, int k) {
        int result = 1;
        while (k > 0) {
            if (k % 2 == 1) {
                result = product(result, x);
            }
            x = product(x, x);
            k /= 2;
        }
        return result;
    }

    int inv(int x) {
        return pow(x, MOD - 2);
    }

    void solve() throws IOException {
        int[][] longestPath = new int[26][26];
        int n = nextInt();
        for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            String ruler = next();
            int from = ruler.charAt(0) - 'a';
            int to = ruler.charAt(ruler.length() - 1) - 'a';
            for(int f = 0; f < 26; f++) {
                if(longestPath[f][from] > 0 || f == from) {
                    longestPath[f][to] = Math.max(longestPath[f][to], longestPath[f][from] + ruler.length());
                }
            }
        }
        int answer = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
            answer = Math.max(answer, longestPath[i][i]);
        }
        writer.println(answer);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        try (A a = new A()) {
            a.solve();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        reader.close();
        writer.close();
    }
}