LeetCode 1219, Medium. Topics: Array, Backtracking, Matrix. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 16 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
In a gold mine grid of size m x n, each cell in this mine has an integer representing the amount of gold in that cell, 0 if it is empty.
Return the maximum amount of gold you can collect under the conditions:
- Every time you are located in a cell you will collect all the gold in that cell.
- From your position, you can walk one step to the left, right, up, or down.
- You can’t visit the same cell more than once.
- Never visit a cell with
0 gold.
- You can start and stop collecting gold from any position in the grid that has some gold.
Examples
Constraints
m == grid.length
n == grid[i].length
1 <= m, n <= 15
0 <= grid[i][j] <= 100
- There are at most 25 cells containing gold.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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