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.
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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?
Advent of Code Day 10 — Cathode-Ray Tube
Turns out the elves just really loved the Atari 2600 so much, they built their little handheld computers around them. And now it’s up to us to fix one.