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I know - thank you, though, good to know it's not just me. Not the first puzzle that I've solved using GraphViz, either.
Some of them do depend on some unstated property of the input that can only be discerned by inspecting it - I don't feel too bad about that kind of 'cheat', as long as it goes from "the input" -> "your code" -> "the output".
Some of them - and I'm thinking another that ludicrous "line up the hailstones" one from day 24 from last year - are the kind where you parse the input so you can output it in the right format for Wolfram Alpha. Most unsatisfying as a coding puzzle.