The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Introduction:
Slitherlink is a type of logic puzzle made popular by Nikoli, the same
Japanese puzzle company that has made Sudoku popular the world over. Like
most good logic puzzles, it has a set of very basic rules that can
nonetheless result in devilishly difficult (and delightful!) puzzling
experiences.
The rules of Slitherlink are as follows:
- A Slitherlink board is made up of a lattice of dots; in this problem,
it will be a regular rectangular lattice.
- Some of the boxes (or cells) defined by the lattice have numbers
within them; with a regular rectangular lattice, the numbers will be
between 0 and 3 inclusive.
- The goal of a Slitherlink puzzle is to connect adjacent dots
(horizontally or vertically, like the sides of boxes) so that there
is a single loop that never crosses itself, with no line
segments that are not part of the loop (no "dangling" segments or
other, separate loops) such that every cell that has a number has
exactly that many sides as segments of the loop.
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Unsolved 5x5 Puzzle
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Solved 5x5 Puzzle
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Given a supposedly solved Slitherlink puzzle, your task will be to determine
whether or not it is indeed legitimately solved.
Input:
Input to this problem will begin with a line containing a single integer
N (1 ≤ N ≤ 100) indicating the number of data sets.
Each data set consists of the following components:
- A line containing two integers H, W (1 ≤ H,W
≤ 20) representing the height and width of the Slitherlink puzzle by the
number of cells (not dots!) per edge;
- A series of 2H + 1 lines representing the Slitherlink puzzle, using
the following non-whitespace characters:
- 0, 1, 2, 3, ?: The numbers
written inside a given cell. A ? represents an empty cell, as
in the example graphic above.
- #: A dot in the lattice.
- -, |: A horizontal or vertical line segment.
- .: An empty adjacency between two dots in the lattice.
Note that all Slitherlink puzzles will be fully represented; that is, there is
no internal whitespace on a given line to represent empty cells or adjacencies.
Output:
For each data set, print "VALID" if the solution is a valid solution
to the given Slitherlink, or "INVALID" if the solution is not valid.
Sample Input:
2
5 5
#-#-#-#-#-#
|?.?.?.1.3|
#.#-#-#.#-#
|?|?.?|?|?.
#-#.#.#.#-#
.2.0.2|?.?|
#-#.#-#.#-#
|?|3|?.?|2.
#.#-#.#-#.#
|?.?.2|?.0.
#-#-#-#.#.#
5 5
#-#-#-#-#-#
|?|?.?.1.3|
#.#-#-#.#-#
|?|?.?|?|?.
#-#.#.#.#-#
.2.0.2|?.?|
#-#.#-#.#-#
|?|3|?.?|2.
#.#-#.#-#.#
|?.?.2|?.0.
#-#-#-#-#.#
Sample Output:
VALID
INVALID