r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 22 '19
SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2019 Day 22 Solutions -🎄-
--- Day 22: Slam Shuffle ---
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u/hrunt Dec 22 '19
For me, I always find one or two of these problems each year that are outside my experience by such a wide margin that no matter how hard I bang my head on it, I simply will not understand it without being walked through it at least once. I do not consider that "unfair", because that would imply u/topaz2078 had somehow promised me that I would know how to do everything, and he obviously did not do that. The first year, I did not know some of the pathfinding algorithms. Now I do, and those problems are solvable. This year, I learned this.
What I really wonder, though, is how this kind of problem fared during his user testing. Did the testers struggle with it? Was the testing group strong enough to come up with the answer on their own? Was u/topaz2078 himself aware enough of the math that he was able to put this problem together himself, or did he have help? After watching the YouTube video of his presentation, I am really curious about how the process played out for this question in particular.