Advent of Code 2023 - Day 7

[cymplecy]

This is a thread to discuss Day 7

https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/7

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Good luck
FYI one of the features of Advent of Code is that we all get given different inputs so our answers will be different.
The examples are all the same but each of us gets different inputs for us to solve

[cymplecy]

I'm working away on Part 1 slowly

Got to the stage of getting a score value against each hand

Just have to do the ranking bit now.......

Part 1 all done

Part 2 doesn't look to bad at first glance but I've been caught out before thinking that way

https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=cymplecy&ProjectName=aoc23Day7

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

You put the link for day 8 in the post.

[cymplecy]

Sorted - thanks