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SOLUTION MEGATHREAD-🎄- 2022 Day 2 Solutions -🎄-(self.adventofcode)
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nice and short! you could save one line by doing
game = [x.strip() for x in open("day02.txt").readlines()]Oh thank you!! That was bugging me because that first line feels like such a waste. I’m gonna try that for the next few puzzles.
This approach would have saved me some effort. Just manually score each of the 9 possible games, and then map the inputs. Very nice. Copying your approach for Excel I get:
Thank you! I caught myself despairing at the thought of writing a bazillion if/else statements and luckily remembered that this requires a lot less writing. Although I did need two tries and so many comments in my code to get the second table correct
It took me more than 20 minutes and several tries to get the logic right for part 2. And the end result wasn’t pretty.