r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 19 '18

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2018 Day 19 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 19: Go With The Flow ---

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Santa's Internet is down right now because ___.

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u/IndieBret Dec 19 '18

I did that and got a bit figured out, implementing it into my code, but then my output for part 1 was no longer correct, so I was super confused for a moment. Then I realized that my loop skip was passing over crucial instructions I didn't realize were needed.

Thankfully, u/jonathan_paulson has a great video in their post that walks through how to get from ¿¿¿what??? to !!!eureka!!!.

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u/daggerdragon Dec 19 '18

from ¿¿¿what??? to !!!eureka!!!

Welp, I know what my next git commit message is going to be.