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# Day 2
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[link](https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/2)
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## Assignment
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### Day 2: Cube Conundrum
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You're launched high into the atmosphere!
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The apex of your trajectory just barely reaches the surface of a large island
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floating in the sky.
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You gently land in a fluffy pile of leaves.
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It's quite cold, but you don't see much snow.
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An Elf runs over to greet you.
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The Elf explains that you've arrived
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at Snow Island and apologizes for the lack of snow.
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He'll be happy to explain the situation, but it's a bit of a walk,
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so you have some time.
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They don't get many visitors up here; would you like to play a game in the meantime?
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As you walk, the Elf shows you a small bag and some cubes which are either red,
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green, or blue.
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Each time you play this game,
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he will hide a secret number of cubes of each color in the bag,
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and your goal is to figure out information about the number of cubes.
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To get information, once a bag has been loaded with cubes,
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the Elf will reach into the bag, grab a handful of random cubes,
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show them to you, and then put them back in the bag.
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He'll do this a few times per game.
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You play several games and record the information from each game (your puzzle input).
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Each game is listed with its ID number (like the 11 in Game 11: ...)
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followed by a semicolon-separated list of subsets of cubes that were revealed
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from the bag (like 3 red, 5 green, 4 blue).
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For example, the record of a few games might look like this:
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```example
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Game 1: 3 blue, 4 red; 1 red, 2 green, 6 blue; 2 green
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Game 2: 1 blue, 2 green; 3 green, 4 blue, 1 red; 1 green, 1 blue
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Game 3: 8 green, 6 blue, 20 red; 5 blue, 4 red, 13 green; 5 green, 1 red
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Game 4: 1 green, 3 red, 6 blue; 3 green, 6 red; 3 green, 15 blue, 14 red
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Game 5: 6 red, 1 blue, 3 green; 2 blue, 1 red, 2 green
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```
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In game 1, three sets of cubes are revealed from the bag (and then put back again).
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The first set is 3 blue cubes and 4 red cubes;
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the second set is 1 red cube, 2 green cubes, and 6 blue cubes;
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the third set is only 2 green cubes.
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The Elf would first like to know which games would have been possible
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if the bag contained only 12 red cubes, 13 green cubes, and 14 blue cubes?
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In the example above, games 1, 2, and 5 would have been possible
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if the bag had been loaded with that configuration.
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However, game 3 would have been impossible because at one point
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the Elf showed you 20 red cubes at once;
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similarly, game 4 would also have been impossible because the Elf
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showed you 15 blue cubes at once.
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If you add up the IDs of the games that would have been possible, you get 8.
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Determine which games would have been possible
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if the bag had been loaded with only 12 red cubes, 13 green cubes, and 14 blue cubes.
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What is the sum of the IDs of those games?
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