Advent of Code 2025 Day 8 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 8 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

[DataNath]

This one took a good while to get P2 over the line! Had to peek at a couple of spoilers to discover a key stopping condition I was completely overlooking but once I added that, lights out! Shoutout to the 'superstar' tool for this one!

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[lwolfie]

Couldn't get my pt 2 macro to work, so I went macroless.  

[Qiu]

I was lucky with @Hub119 approach and will go with it.

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[danboll_life]

I had a hard time figuring out what the question was asking for.

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[Pilsner]

First time using this particular tool in an actual build! I had seen it before, but decided today was the day to try it for myself; always good to learn a new trick. 

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Great use case for the make group tool!

This one, too, needs to be tidied up. I wanted to make sure I had all my solutions uploaded by the end of day 12, but rest assured, I will do my best to post a neater version of my day 8 solution shortly. 

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[mkeiffer]

My Day 8 solution.  Just realized I forgot to post it.  

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