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Challenge #148: Rotating Century Puzzle

alex
11 - Bolide
"The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will."
Listening to Grateful Dead to help me thru this one.
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TonyA
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Used a brute force approach but got the same answer...

OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

I liked the idea of ratcheting the rings round 1 by 1, so I went with an iterative macro. Not the most performant solution, but in my head I can hear the 'tick' as it turns each ring round by one position.

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Not the most dynamic solution I'm afraid, but it does work 🙂

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The macro looked like this:

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The formula tools all had the same formula in:

MOD(([Position]+floor([Engine.IterationNumber]/pow(6,[0-5])))-1,6)+1
where the power of 6 would change for each input from 0 to 5
JoshuaGostick
11 - Bolide

My solution

 

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brudnicki
7 - Meteor

My solution:

 

KMiller
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached.

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rmassambane
10 - Fireball

Took me a while to solve it.

mbogusz
9 - Comet
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dsmdavid
11 - Bolide

Started with the append route, but then couldn't quite figure out the code for the outputs belonging to the same rotation. Ended overcomplicating it with some macro fun.

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papalow
8 - Asteroid

Interesting challenge and it was a challenge.