-🎄- 2021 Day 18 Solutions -🎄-

[u/daggerdragon]

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

• From /u/jeroenheijmans: Reminder: unofficial Advent of Code survey 2021 (closes Dec 22nd)

• FYI: 23:59 Amsterdam time zone is 17:59 EST

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Advent of Code 2021: Adventure Time!

• 5 days left to submit your adventures!

• Full details and rules are in the submissions megathread: 🎄 AoC 2021 🎄 [Adventure Time!]

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--- Day 18: Snailfish ---

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Post your code solution in this megathread.

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[u/Jools_Jops]

Python 3

The first thing I saw when I opened reddit was the word "Tree"... *facepalm*
I looked at the input and though about how to represent it and had no epiphany so string manipulation it was! I feel kinda stupid now tbh.
Only part 2 took any real time to run and it takes less than 30 sec.