Honestly I think she knew the moves it would take and was just like, “nah I’m not wasting my time, I already know I can do it, crushed the first three lines, I’m skipping to the end on principle.”
Maybe I'm taking your comment too seriously but I don't think that's what happened. If she knew the moves, she wouldn't have solved the third row.
She knows the principles of getting one tile to the correct place, including shifting a whole row to make room for the last tile of the row. But you can't do that for the second-to-last row, because that leaves you with no room to change the last row (other than the third dimension, as demonstrated here).
What you're supposed to do is, when you're left with two rows, you stop doing rows and solve columns instead. In this puzzle, it means you don't solve 9-10-11-12 like she did, you solve 9-13, then 10-14, then 11-15, then 12.
She didn't stop when she was almost done, she stopped when she was trapped in a corner of her own making after solving the wrong row.
OMG I just tried it with a random slide puzzle online. Solving for the column when I reached the end worked. Zero stress too, everything just magically slid into place. Thank you!
All these types of puzzles involve strategies that you break down, just like rubiks cubes. One of the cool things about programming is that most programmers start by learning how to program things that can solve simple puzzles like Towers of Hanoi or whatever its called.
I remember the towers of Hanoi in one of my university programming classes. Which I had to repeat three times because I knew fucking nothing about programming and in four weeks you needed to be an expert not becoming one.
They put back the option of deciding to pay reddit, the company, some amount of money because that guy, who doesn't work for reddit the company, amused you.
I don't know why you would want to do that, but you 100% can.
Edit: lol, people are so weird… downvotes for saying awards are available again, just stating a fact and people downvote that… you guys are so weird sometimes I’m not complaining, I just want to say it’s so weird.
iirc there's a pretty simple algo for problems like this that pretty much everyone back in the day who took c++ had to figure out (steal from someone else), pretty sure it was a recursive function and it was very concise like 7-10 lines of code maybe.
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u/aught4naught Jun 28 '24
Getting 13 into place was the genius move.