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

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