Elf

It’s the final quest of the starter campaign. How was it? Is this game even worth playing in 2024?

Spoiler alert: There was no time limit for this quest.

The monk and the rogue take the place of the barbarian and the wizard as the party faces their greatest challenge yet…

I had 80% of the solution, but that last 20% killed it. This is the day I failed Advent of Code 2023.

First puzzle in a few days where I didn’t need to get hints. I guess the problem was musical, aerodynamic, shiny AND extremely cool looking!

We had game night tonight, more HeroQuest (yay!), so I didn’t have a lot of time to work on this. Basically, you’re digging out a lagoon into which lava will flow. Part 1 could easily be calculated using a basic flood fill algorithm, so I did it that way, got the first star for the day, and went to work. I’d already seen that, as expected, part 2 would resist something that easy. ...

Edsger Dijkstra is laughing at me from his grave.

I really tried with Haskell this time. Oh well, looks like we’ll have to play Camel Poker in Python instead.

This one was easy. TOO easy. Day 7 is going to be bad.

My Haskell experiments end. Even though I got the answer, have I failed?