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Problem: Minimum Moves to Spread Stones Over Grid

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30 min
Explore how to use backtracking algorithms to find the minimum moves required to spread stones evenly across a 3x3 grid. Understand constraints like adjacency and total stones, and practice coding an efficient solution to solve complex distribution problems.

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 use backtracking algorithms to find the minimum moves required to spread stones evenly across a 3x3 grid. Understand constraints like adjacency and total stones, and practice coding an efficient solution to solve complex distribution problems.

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