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Problem: Minimum Moves to Spread Stones Over Grid

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30 min
Explore how to solve a 3x3 grid puzzle by moving stones to ensure each cell has exactly one stone. Learn to apply backtracking to calculate minimum moves, understand adjacency constraints, and implement an efficient solution.

Statement

Given a 2D grid of integers of size (3×33 \times 3), where each value represents the number of stones in the given cell, return the minimum number of moves required to place exactly one stone in each grid cell.

Constraints:

  • Only one stone can be moved in one move.

  • Stone from a cell can only be moved to another cell if they are adjacent (share a side).

  • The sum of all stones in the grid must be equal to 99.

  • grid.length, grid[i].length ==3 == 3

  • 00 \le grid[i][j] 9 \le 9

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Problem: Minimum Moves to Spread Stones Over Grid

Medium
30 min
Explore how to solve a 3x3 grid puzzle by moving stones to ensure each cell has exactly one stone. Learn to apply backtracking to calculate minimum moves, understand adjacency constraints, and implement an efficient solution.

Statement

Given a 2D grid of integers of size (3×33 \times 3), where each value represents the number of stones in the given cell, return the minimum number of moves required to place exactly one stone in each grid cell.

Constraints:

  • Only one stone can be moved in one move.

  • Stone from a cell can only be moved to another cell if they are adjacent (share a side).

  • The sum of all stones in the grid must be equal to 99.

  • grid.length, grid[i].length ==3 == 3

  • 00 \le grid[i][j] 9 \le 9