2025-08-31 Daily Challenge
Today I have done leetcode's August LeetCoding Challenge with cpp
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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:
- Each of the digits
1-9
must occur exactly once in each row. - Each of the digits
1-9
must occur exactly once in each column. - Each of the digits
1-9
must occur exactly once in each of the 93x3
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)