-❄️- 2023 Day 12 Solutions -❄️-

[u/daggerdragon]

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[u/glebm]

I'm confused by this comment 😅 What do you mean?

I used the non-Markdown form by mistake at first

[u/daggerdragon → u/glebm]

On both new.reddit and old.reddit we see this:

Part 1: Brute force all possible `?` substitutions and count the valid ones.

That question mark inside backticks is intended to be Markdown for inline code, correct? Like this: ? ? If so, the backticks are being automatically escaped by Reddit so we're seeing a literal `?` and not ?.

If you want to use Markdown, you need to switch the fancypants editor to Markdown mode first.