ALCATRAZ3 - THE HONEYCOMB MAZE
You won the lottery tickets to visit the famous Disneyland Hong Kong with the Taarak Mehta ka Ulta Chasma family and Subramaniam Iyer gets stuck in the Honey Comb maze. He has a Phone along with him and no one else to help him out. He calls you and asks for help. Chuck the story getting into the problem now, There are N x M blocks of Honey combs in the maze and you are given a starting point. your task is to help Mr. Iyer find out whether or not he can traverse the maze and return to his original position. The constraint being that a honey comb (Block) once visited cannot be visited again. Also, he has to make a minimum of 'k' number of moves before returning to the starting point. The '.' represent the empty blocks whereas the '*' represent the blocks that can't be visited. from a block (x,y) Iyer can move only to blocks (x-1,y), (x+1,y), (x,y+1), (x,y-1). Help Mr. Iyer return to his original position.
Input
The first line of the input contains the dimensions of the maze (N x M).
Second line of the input contains 'k' as described above.
The third line denotes the coordinates of the starting point (1-n), (1-m).
The next N lines contain the description of the Nth row.
Output
Output "YES" if it's possible.
Else output "NO".
Constraints
1 <= N, M <= 100
Example
Input: 5 5 14 1 2 ...** *...* *.... .*... .*..* Output: YES
Explanation
1,2 → 2,2 → 3,2 → 3,3 → 4,3 → 5,3 → 5,4 → 4,4 → 4,5 → 3,5 → 3,4 → 2,4 → 2,3 → 1,3 → 1,2
14 moves were made. So, it is possible. Also, no blocks were repeated.
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Amitayush Thakur:
2022-01-23 20:26:12
It is easy, but getting a 0.00 AC is hard. I tried multiple approaches but could, at best, get 0.02 only. I tried int8_t for minimal space, reduced the number of comparisons, made all functions inline, but nothing seemed to speed it up. Maybe changing recursion to stack-based implementation might help.
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harshiscoding:
2021-01-11 14:52:17
i have seen episode, iyer couldn't go in hong kong |
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sarkybastard:
2020-09-24 23:55:32
The defining feature of a honeycomb is its hexagonal structure, so to call this problem honeycomb maze, and then define it as a square matrix is whatchamacallit... daft. |
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arnav7060:
2020-09-16 19:48:28
Got accepted in 13th try. If you are a beginner like me in these concepts. Don't worry even one complete question can take your full day but you would get to learn a lot. |
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father3301:
2020-08-22 05:59:51
what about 1,1 in explanation
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sadman15019:
2020-08-19 19:30:23
solved using direction array and basic dfs concept..keep in mind that the cycle can be "greater than" or "equal" to k. |
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aditop:
2020-06-22 19:51:52
The problem has an exponential time solution. Hint: Try to use backtracking and find the required path (similar to exhaustive search!) |
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snorlax186:
2020-06-20 21:25:45
Phew, AC in 3rd Go. I forgot the maze was one indexed! Last edit: 2020-06-20 22:15:18 |
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sajalagrawal14:
2020-01-04 16:33:26
remember
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sofianelew_97:
2019-09-14 10:55:30
can anyone give me the solution, it looks like a dfs is too expensive, isn't it?
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Added by: | Alcatraz |
Date: | 2017-01-29 |
Time limit: | 0.100s-1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 GOSU |
Resource: | Own Problem |