Fast Parse VS aoc

Perhaps use Li Haoyi's fastparse instead? https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/fastparse

You might want to adapt Li Haoyi’s XML parser for fastparse.

Mostly a mess of pattern matching. I really need to make some generic tree utilities. Haven't been able to find a decent parser combinator that works in Scala 3 (I usually use fastparse which depends heavily on Scala 2 macros, and scala-parser-combinators works in Scala 3, but I've had a lot of trouble getting it to not be too greedy), so I used the state monad from cats to parse at the bottom of the file, which I think turned out fairly nice.

Agreed! I would say that parser combinators are the sweet spot and the right choice in most cases.

Scala has them as well, e.g.: https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/fastparse/

And the good thing is, you don't have to learn a completely new language/syntax, you can use the host language's syntax and you have full IDE support as well.

Full code at GitHub.

Edit: you don't need to determine the type of hand, but you can directly compare the card counts. Second version @GitHub.

New version @GitHub.

So, a new version with a lot less almost-duplicate code @GitHub.

@GitHub

Completed part 2, see GitHub. I couldn't really use the same `DiracDice` class and simply use another `Die`, but had to create a separate `DiracDice2` class.Basically, just keep track of the possible universe state and their counts, and try all possible combinations of die rolls. Keep playing until all universes have a winner.

The rest is the same as my first attempt, but full code at GitHub.

I spent way too much time on this, but I completed my original attempt with the proper object model, see GitHub