makes perfect sense. Clever!

thank you :)

approved

Nice kata :D

That is a really nice idea, it would make the task more difficult and the rank would go up.

You could find all possible positions that the CT could be at for the bomb to be defused and find the optimal path as you said.

I'll create a second kata which would be the successor of this one with that idea.

Also I'm quite new here aswell and idk how creating a kata with contributors works I usually just work on them on my own

It does the trick but there are some really concise solutions here with a fraction of the upvotes...

thanks. my bad.

The input string will only consist of lower case letters and/or spaces.

I think we just got lucky that the test cases didn't cover uppercase vowels.

Unless I am missing something

Approved by author.

I was thinking of converting it to a matrix where each value is 1, except:

where the bomb is located would be '10'
where the kit is located would be '-5'

if a path exists that is under the supplied integer, then it's possible. but it turns out that traversing this matrix is the tricky part. I'm tempted to think this solution is too complicated. Maybe a little bit more relevant if the goal was to find the most optimal path.

New here: I didn't use the spoiler flag because I assume I'm not thinking about it the right way. If i should use it, LMK.