
Advent of Code Day 25 -- Full of Hot Air
That’s a wrap – a Christmas wrap! – on Advent of Code 2022!

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

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.

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

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

The elves are crossing a bridge, but it is a really short bridge – in fact it is the shortest bridge possible. So what did the protagonist fall into when it snapped?

I am committing myself this year to solving every puzzle in the Advent of Code, an annual coding competition taking place over the Advent season each year. Each day brings a new puzzle, in two parts. They start out pretty easy, and top programmers (not me) solve them in seconds. By the end of the challenge, top programmers can take even half an hour to solve a puzzle. Me, I’ll take hours. ...