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๐Ÿ’‚ - 2024 DAY 6 SOLUTIONS - ๐Ÿ’‚ (programming.dev)
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Day 6: Guard Gallivant

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[โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I added each visited position/direction to a set, and when a 'state' is reached again you have entered a loop:

v = set()
while t[g.r][g.c] != 'X':
    state = (g.r, g.c, g.d)
    if state in v:
        acc += 1
        break
    v.add(state)
    g.move(t)

You can view my full solution here.

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