It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself

In this blog post, Rob Heaton shares his amusing experience of playing the video game Cocoon during a solo vacation while his family is away. Faced with challenging puzzles in the game, he decides to create a program to solve them instead of using traditional methods, explaining his approach through concepts like Finite State Machines and the Breadth-First Search algorithm. Alongside the technical details, he reflects on the broader implications of systematic search in both gaming and real life, humorously highlighting how his coding project turned into a deeper exploration of problem-solving through programming.