AoC# 2024 - Day 16: Reindeer Maze

It’s Advent of Code time 🎄

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

I was beginning to wonder when a maze might appear, and here it is on Day 16.

Part 1 ⭐️

Refreshed my knowledge of maze solving algorithms but needn’t have really bothered as I tried Dijkstra’s first and it worked.

Part 2 ❌

Took me a few attempts to properly understand the requirements for this one, and even then I still couldn’t come up with an approach that worked for the first example, let alone the input.

I’m inclined to say if there’s time I’ll have another pop at it, but that’s unlikely in the run up to Christmas.