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| DECRYPTION STATION — PUZZLE #13249 |
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CIPHER TYPE: WATERSHED
SECURITY LEVEL: 3/7
STATUS: [ACTIVE — AWAITING DECRYPTION]
MISSION BRIEFING
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A 8×8 elevation grid. Compute D8 flow accumulation — drainage area per cell maps to letters.
INTERCEPTED DATA
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> elevation:
[[17, 13, 86, 39, 59, 55, 87, 36], [72, 45, 46, 15, 59, 38, 50, 54], [65, 17, 76, 14, 66, 88, 52, 41], [23, 34, 35, 15, 56, 54, 34, 21], [54, 48, 82, 90, 76, 50, 67, 24], [80, 32, 76, 52, 65, 58, 19, 70], [34, 42, 19, 13, 18, 42, 81, 46], [29, 41, 79, 41, 29, 32, 73, 54]]
> grid size:
8
> n chars:
6
> hint:
For each cell: find lowest neighbor (8-directional). Water flows that way. Accumulate flow from upstream cells. Sort outlet cells by accumulation -> letters.
> answer format:
lowercase letters, no spaces or punctuation
[INTEL] Pool fill: watershed diff 3
DECRYPTION INPUT
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