Can someone please help me understand how to approach this problem?
I tried coding a dfs for cycle detection, but I think a cycle in the maze in this problem isn't the same as a cycle in a graph?
Any thoughts very appreciated.
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Never mind, I solved it. Need to convert the maze into proper grid representation, and do a flood fill to count cycles.