Advent of Code Day 16 — Proboscidea Volcanium
Trying to save elephants trapped in an erupting volcano? Sure. My solution worked for my input but not that of other people’s, so let’s try something a little different.
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Advent of Code Day 12 — Hill Climbing Algorithm
The title says it all. It’s a “shortest path” puzzle, you’re meant to use Dijkstra’s algorithm, and the puzzle has no curve balls to toss at you.
Advent of Code Day 15 — Beacon Exclusion Zone
This is the kind of puzzle I hate. Puzzles where even the best approach seems to take forever and it’s hard to wrap my head around the solution.
Advent of Code Day 14 — Regolith Reservoir
I thought, for my vacation, I’d have time to really dive deep into these puzzles. Instead, I’ve been buried deep in sand — much like the hapless victim in today’s puzzle.
Advent of Code Day 11 — Monkey in the Middle
I thought this was just a puzzle to see if I knew about modulo arithmetic… but then it turned into a puzzle about VERY LARGE NUMBERS! Also, why do I bother with Java?