non-pythonic closure abusing python solution .. check

Had to run it a couple of times to hit that <12s runtime.

/*
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
*/

// free_patterns - {1: [2, 4, 5, 6, 8]} means you can go from 1 to 2,4,5,6 or 8 only if they have not been passed through already
// jump_patterns - {1: {2:3, 4: 7, 5: 9} means you can go from 1 to 3 passing through 2, from 1 to 7 passing through 4 and from 1 to 9 passing through 5 only if 2,4 or 5 have been visited and 3,7 or 9 respective have not been visited
// could add another check for length > 9 to return 0 because it's impossible but meh

Python version is so broken I passed by pressing attempt a couple of times until I saw green and just clicked "submit". One of those cases where you push to prod and quit I guess.

The comments below mention all the proglems I was going to mention so can this kata be removed? Clearly in so many years nobody thought it needs fixing.

pretty much what I did but using the language properly. very nice