Solving Advent of Code puzzles with Jactl
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An easy day where we had to calculate the next number for each of a given set of number series. After stumbling on a stupid mistake with an iterative approach, the recursive approach worked first time and ended up as a much nicer solution.
Another fun day. As usual part 2 could not be brute forced so needed some lateral thinking.
Part 2 of day 5 was a bit of a challenge to get right. A nice feeling to have completed it.
Once again, an even day seems to be easier than an odd day. I am sure it is just a coincidence.
Today did not require too much cleverness but there were a couple of traps to watch out for.
A fairly straightforward day after giving the brain cells a workout yesterday.
After an easyish day 2, the difficulty level bumped up a bit again for day 3.
Day 2 - Easier than day 1. Mostly a parsing exercise.
Another year has come around quickly and so another chance to have some fun solving the Advent Of Code puzzles for 2023. Once again, I will be attempting to solve these puzzles using Jactl. The version I am using is the latest version (1.3.1 as of time of writing).
See Day 25 for a detailed description of the problem.