Advent of Code Day 25 -- Full of Hot Air

That’s a wrap – a Christmas wrap! – on Advent of Code 2022!

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 373 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 24 -- Blizzard Basin

The Christmas elves don’t like the snow for some reason? They have the wrong boss, I think. Well, we better help them get through those couple hundred blizzards.

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 509 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 23 -- Unstable Diffusion

…because Stable Diffusion was already used, I guess. This is the annual cellular automata puzzle. Plus, why no puzzle 22?

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 626 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 21 -- Monkey Math

Hey, monkeys again! Shouting! Luckily, we have an elephant to interpret. I feel… morally uneasy about today’s solution.

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 500 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 20 -- Grove Positioning System

As someone remarked today on Reddit, the entire plan hinged upon you remembering a ten digit prime number you randomly overheard twenty days ago.

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 372 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 19 -- Not Enough Minerals

Okay, this one took a long time. I knew what to do, but what to do was super slow.

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 801 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 18 -- Boiling Boulders

We’re about to start on Christmas Week, that week when Advent of Code’s most iconic puzzles are released. But today, we’re dealing with the aftermath of an exploding volcano.

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 542 words · Tipa

Woody, the Tetris-playing Woodpecker

True story of how a Tetris-playing bird made humanity examine its role in the universe. Plus: an exclusive interview with Woody about his marriage to a human woman!

December 18, 2022 · 6 min · 1130 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 17 -- Pyroclastic Flow

They say “Pyroclastic Flow”, but it’s really Tetris. Rock Tetris. With 100,000,000 pieces. Massive.

December 17, 2022 · 4 min · 845 words · Tipa

Advent of Code Day 16 -- Proboscidea Volcanium

Trying to save elephants trapped in an erupting volcano? Sure. My solution worked for my input but not that of other people’s, so let’s try something a little different.

December 16, 2022 · 4 min · 656 words · Tipa