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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I liked day 13, a bit easy but in the right way.

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Although saying "minimum" was a bit evil when all of the systems had exactly 1 solution (not necessarily in ℕ^2), I wonder if it's puzzle trickiness, anti-LLM (and unfortunate non comp-sci souls) trickiness or if the puzzle was maybe scaled down from a version where there are more solutions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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Given the lack of edge cases, I feel the latter possibility is strong. I'm just glad it was easy!