Advent of Code 2022 Day 2 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 2 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2

[NicoleJ]

If you have not read the children's book "The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors", I HIGHLY recommend it as a complement to today's challenge. 

"Are you not entertained?!?"

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[bflick]

I struggled most with understanding the rules. Really need to read twice build once instead of build 5 times read once.

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When in doubt mapping files solve everything

[clmc9601]

I made some manual assignments instead of writing a long formula. The tradeoff paid off in speed given there were a fixed number of outcomes. Not my most dynamic solution...

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[atcodedog05]

My Solution for AOC Day-2 

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Cheers and happy analyzing!

[atcodedog05]

@clmc9601 Very nicely done 😁. I guess it shows we should do some thinking before we start dragging the tools onto Canvas to solve the problem 😂.

[grossal]

Today ... the missing sleep really came into play ... 

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I also played tool golf and actually found a pretty smart way to do the score formula without nesting 6 IFs:

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[cgoodman]

I'm embarrassed with how long I took, so here's my refactored version

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Originally parsed out the letters and then built complicated IF statements which with my 5am brain meant I had typos and just couldn't see it, so ended up getting some paper out and writing the logic down in a matrix.

 I even messed up this!

[AkimasaKajitani]

My solution. There are no IF statements. But my workflow has many hand-made tables.This is similar to @clmc9601 's approach, but not as elegant as hers.

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[Jotigautam]

If-else Era it is! 😃

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