[2023 Day 7] Part 2 poorly specified
[2023 Day 7] Part 2 poorly specified
The instructions for part 2 are missing info about how to handle the Four Of A Kind and a joker case. Wasted quite some time because I assumed that the remaining joker would remain unused, but turns out it turns your deck into Five Of A Kind.
Did everybody else just expect this?
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For part 2, the only thing that I missed at first was the JJJJJ edge case. My approach was:
- count the amount of jokers
- remove them from the hand
- count the rest
- add the amount of jokers to the biggest set in the hand
Last step fails if there are no other cards left after you remove the jokers...