After Advent of Code 2021 transparent origami on Day 13 with more output than just a number, for Day 14 it was back to more standard processing with exponential complexity. Interestingly in part 1 I initially started going down the route of not trying to brute forcing it, got almost there but tangled myself in some logic, so I decided to “sod it, I’ll just brute force it” only to then throw the brute force solution away again as soon as I got to part 2.
