CHECKMEET - March Of The King

The white king George lives all alone in a chessboard (A standard chessboard consists of 8 rows and columns). He lives alone because the evil black king Andrew killed all the other pieces in frustration after George beat him in a game of chess.

Wandering all alone with no purpose and literally bored to death, King George invented a new game to keep him occupied. King George has a secret word in his mind. It is the word he used to shout instead of the usual checkmate after beating the black king in a chess game. King George loves to march, so he decided to take a tour through the chessboard. He assigns a single lowercase letter to each square of the chessboard first. He can then start his tour from any square on the chessboard. From a square, the king can move to any neighboring square inside the board as in the game of chess . However, it is not allowed to move to the same square twice during the journey. In other words, all the squares visited by the king must be distinct.

After completing his tour (the tour can be stopped anytime), George concatenates all the characters in the order of his travel to form a word. Since he has nothing better to do, the white king wants to know how many different ways he can complete the tour so that the secret word is formed afterward.

Two ways are considered different if a different square is visited at any moment. Note that the order in which the squares are visited also matters. As a consequence, for example the path (1, 2) -> (2, 1) and (2, 1) -> (1, 2) are considered different.

Formally the problem is as follows:

Let B(X, Y) be the lowercase letter assigned to square (X, Y). Also, let the secret word be S1 S2 ... SK. Your task is to find the number of possible King's tours. A King's tour is a sequence of coordinates (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2), ... , (XK, YK) satisfying:

  • 1 ≤ Xi, Yi ≤ 8
  • B(Xi, Yi) = Si for all 1 ≤ i ≤ K
  • (Xi, Yi) ≠ (Xj, Yj) for all 1 ≤ i < j ≤ K
  • max(|Xi - Xi + 1|, |Yi - Yi + 1|) = 1 for all 1 ≤ i < K


  • Input

    The first line of input consists of a single integer K denoting the length of the secret word. The next line contains the secret word consisting of K lowercase letters. The next 8 lines each contain 8 characters describing the lowercase letters assigned to the chessboard in row-major order.

    Constraints

  • 1 ≤ K ≤ 11
  • Output

    Print a single line containing a single integer denoting the number of different tours forming the secret word.

    Sample Input

    2
    aa
    aabbbbbb
    aabbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    bbbbbbbb
    

    Sample Output

    12
    
    

    Sample Input

    9
    checkmate
    checkmat
    checkmee
    checkmat
    checkmee
    checkmat
    checkmee
    checkmat
    checkmee
    

    Sample Output

    7698
    


    Reference

    HackerRank - March Of The King

    Added by:sgtlaugh
    Date:2020-02-25
    Time limit:3s
    Source limit:50000B
    Memory limit:1536MB
    Cluster: Cube (Intel G860)
    Languages:All
    Resource:Own Problem, Used in HackerRank

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