Advent of Code 2024 Day 25 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 25 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/25

[gawa]

Happy to finish last day with Spatial Analysis!

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Convert the lock/key objects into square spatial objects, and just examine all pairs if they overlap or not by Spatial Match!

[kelsey_kincaid]

Nice macro-less solution for Day 25! This is just part 1 since it may be awhile before I can tackle part 2

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You can easily determine the size of each key & lock's columns using min & max RowIDs. Then, since there are only 5 columns to wrangle, you can concatenate the column sizes and compare between the locks and keys after an append. 

[kelsey_kincaid]

Cool way to solve this @gawa !

[mmontgomery]

Day 25. More in spoiler

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P1: Lots of tools but get there. Could be a tool golf candidate but happy to pick up all the starts this year

[ntakeda]

My workflow for the final day!

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I transposed and counted the "#" in each column (line).

[DaisukeTsuchiya]

Merry Christmas!

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[Hub119]

Nice and easy finish (for part 1 at least)... now back to day 24 part 2 to close this thing out for real...

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Workflow

[Qiu]

The D25 of 2024 is not so scary for me.

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[CoG]

Great closer, simple solution:

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Just throw out any lock-key pairs that have a '#' in the same position: