Day 2: Cube Conundrum

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  • meant2live218@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    My (awful) Python solves. Much easier than day 1’s, although I did run into an issue with trimming whitespace characters with my approach (Game 96 wouldn’t flag properly).

    Part 1 
    with open('02A_input.txt', 'r') as file:
    data = file.readlines()
    
possibleGames=[]

for game in data:
    # Find Game number
    game = game.removeprefix("Game ")
    gameNumber = int(game[0:game.find(":")])
    # Break Game into rounds (split using semicolons)
    game=game[game.find(":")+1:]
    rounds=game.split(";")
    # For each round, determine the maximum number of Red, Blue, Green items shown at a time
    rgb=[0,0,0]
    for round in rounds:
        combos=round.split(",")
        for combo in combos:
            combo=combo.strip()
            number=int(combo[0:combo.find(" ")])
            if combo.endswith("red"):
                if number>rgb[0]:
                    rgb[0]=number
            elif combo.endswith("green"):
                if number>rgb[1]:
                    rgb[1]=number
            elif combo.endswith("blue"):
                if number>rgb[2]:
                    rgb[2]=number
    # If Red>12, Green>13, Blue>14, append Game number to possibleGames
    if not (rgb[0]>12 or rgb[1]>13 or rgb[2]>14):
        possibleGames.append(gameNumber)

print(sum(possibleGames))
    Part 2 
    with open('02A_input.txt', 'r') as file:
    data = file.readlines()
    
powers=[]

for game in data:
    # Find Game number
    game = game.removeprefix("Game ")
    # Break Game into rounds (split using semicolons)
    game=game[game.find(":")+1:]
    rounds=game.split(";")
    # For each round, determine the maximum number of Red, Blue, Green items shown at a time
    # Note: This could be faster, since we don't need to worry about actual rounds
    rgb=[0,0,0]
    for round in rounds:
        combos=round.split(",")
        for combo in combos:
            combo=combo.strip()
            number=int(combo[0:combo.find(" ")])
            if combo.endswith("red"):
                if number>rgb[0]:
                    rgb[0]=number
            elif combo.endswith("green"):
                if number>rgb[1]:
                    rgb[1]=number
            elif combo.endswith("blue"):
                if number>rgb[2]:
                    rgb[2]=number
    # Multiple R, G, B to find the "power" of the game
    # Append Power to the list
    powers.append(rgb[0]*rgb[1]*rgb[2])
    
print(sum(powers))