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I know that we can brute force it by placing an obstacle at every valid position in the path, but is there a more elegant / efficient solution?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can track by just keeping list of all positions and movement direction, if two are same, it means that it is in a loop.