2025-08-31 Daily Challenge

Today I have done leetcode's August LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

August LeetCoding Challenge 31

Description

Sudoku Solver

Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells.

A sudoku solution must satisfy all of the following rules:

  1. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each row.
  2. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each column.
  3. Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each of the 9 3x3 sub-boxes of the grid.

The '.' character indicates empty cells.

 

Example 1:

Input: board = [["5","3",".",".","7",".",".",".","."],["6",".",".","1","9","5",".",".","."],[".","9","8",".",".",".",".","6","."],["8",".",".",".","6",".",".",".","3"],["4",".",".","8",".","3",".",".","1"],["7",".",".",".","2",".",".",".","6"],[".","6",".",".",".",".","2","8","."],[".",".",".","4","1","9",".",".","5"],[".",".",".",".","8",".",".","7","9"]]
Output: [["5","3","4","6","7","8","9","1","2"],["6","7","2","1","9","5","3","4","8"],["1","9","8","3","4","2","5","6","7"],["8","5","9","7","6","1","4","2","3"],["4","2","6","8","5","3","7","9","1"],["7","1","3","9","2","4","8","5","6"],["9","6","1","5","3","7","2","8","4"],["2","8","7","4","1","9","6","3","5"],["3","4","5","2","8","6","1","7","9"]]
Explanation: The input board is shown above and the only valid solution is shown below:

 

Constraints:

  • board.length == 9
  • board[i].length == 9
  • board[i][j] is a digit or '.'.
  • It is guaranteed that the input board has only one solution.

Solution

auto speedup = [](){
  cin.tie(nullptr);
  cout.tie(nullptr);
  ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
  return 0;
}();
class Solution {
  vector<int> rows = vector<int>(9), cols = vector<int>(9), squares = vector<int>(9);
  void init(vector<vector<char>>& board) {
    for(int i = 0; i < 81; ++i){
      int row = i % 9;
      int col = i / 9;
      int square = i % 9 / 3 * 3 + i / 9 / 3;
      if(board[row][col] == '.') continue;
      rows[row] |= (1 << (board[row][col] - '0'));
      cols[col] |= (1 << (board[row][col] - '0'));
      squares[square] |= (1 << (board[row][col] - '0'));
    }
  }
  bool dfs(vector<vector<char>>& board, int pos) {
    if(pos == 81) return true;
    int row = pos % 9;
    int col = pos / 9;
    int square = pos % 9 / 3 * 3 + pos / 9 / 3;
    if(board[row][col] != '.') return dfs(board, pos+1);
    for(int i = 1; i < 10; ++i) {
      if(rows[row] & (1 << i) ||
        cols[col] & (1 << i) ||
        squares[square] & (1 << i)) continue;
      rows[row] |= (1 << i);
      cols[col] |= (1 << i);
      squares[square] |= (1 << i);
      if(dfs(board, pos+1)) {
        board[row][col] = i+'0';
        return true;
      }
      rows[row] ^= (1 << i);
      cols[col] ^= (1 << i);
      squares[square] ^= (1 << i);
    }
    return false;
  }
public:
  void solveSudoku(vector<vector<char>>& board) {
    init(board);
    dfs(board, 0);
  }
};

// Accepted
// 7/7 cases passed (347 ms)
// Your runtime beats 55.25 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 8.17 % of cpp submissions (8.9 MB)