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17 I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you aren't going to find much down here.
18 There certainly aren't clues to any of the puzzles. The best surprises don't
19 even appear in the source until you unlock them for real.
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26 I built the whole thing myself, including the design, animations, prose, and
29 The puzzles probably took the longest; the easiest ones were around 45 minutes
30 each, but the harder ones took 2-3 hours, and a few even longer than that. A
31 lot of effort went into building this thing - I hope you're enjoying playing it
32 as much as I enjoyed making it for you!
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3: Squares With Three Sides ---
</h2><p>Now that you can think clearly, you move deeper into the labyrinth of hallways and office furniture that makes up this part of Easter Bunny HQ. This must be a graphic design department; the walls are covered in specifications for triangles.
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109 <p>The design document gives the side lengths of each triangle it describes, but...
<code>5 10 25</code>? Some of these aren't triangles. You can't help but mark the impossible ones.
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110 <p>In a valid triangle, the sum of any two sides must be larger than the remaining side. For example, the
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111 <p>In your puzzle input,
<em>how many
</em> of the listed triangles are
<em>possible
</em>?
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113 <p>Your puzzle answer was
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</h2><p>Now that you've helpfully marked up their design documents, it occurs to you that triangles are specified in groups of three
<em>vertically
</em>. Each set of three numbers in a column specifies a triangle. Rows are unrelated.
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114 <p>For example, given the following specification, numbers with the same hundreds digit would be part of the same triangle:
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115 <pre><code>101 301 501
122 <p>In your puzzle input, and instead reading by columns,
<em>how many
</em> of the listed triangles are
<em>possible
</em>?
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124 <p>Your puzzle answer was
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