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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

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🍪 - 2023 DAY 7 SOLUTIONS -🍪 (self.advent_of_code)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Ategon to c/advent_of_code

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Day 7: Camel Cards

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nim

Part 1 is just a sorting problem. Nim's standard library supports sorting with custom compare functions, so I only had to implement cmp() for my custom type and I was done in no time.
To get the star in Part 2 I was generating every possible combination of card hands with Jokers replaced by other cards. It was pretty fast, under a second. Didn't figure out the deterministic method by myself, but coded it after couple hints from Nim Discord people.
Didn't expect an easy challenge for today, but was pleasantly surprised. No weird edge cases, no hidden traps, puzzle text was easy to understand and input parsing is painless.

Total runtime: 1 ms
Puzzle rating: Almost Pefect 9/10
Code: day_07/solution.nim