Risk |
Risk is a board game in which several opposing players attempt to conquer the world. The gameboard consists of a world map broken up into hypothetical countries. During a player's turn, armies stationed in one country are only allowed to attack only countries with which they share a common border. Upon conquest of that country, the armies may move into the newly conquered country.
During the course of play, a player often engages in a sequence of conquests
with the goal of
transferring a large mass of armies from some starting country to a
destination country. Typically,
one chooses the intervening countries so as to minimize the total number of
countries that need to
be conquered. Given a description of the gameboard with 20 countries each
with between 1 and 19
connections to other countries, your task is to write a function that takes
a starting country and a
destination country and computes the minimum number of countries that must
be conquered to
reach the destination. You do not need to output the sequence of countries,
just the number of
countries to be conquered including the destination. For example, if
starting and destination
countries are neighbors, then your program should return one.
The following connection diagram illustrates the first sample input.
There can be multiple test sets in the input file; your program should
continue reading and
processing until reaching the end of file. There will be at least one
path between any two given countries in every country configuration.
The next NT lines each will contain the result for the corresponding test in the test set - that is, the minimum number of countries to conquer. The test result line should contain the start country code A right-justified in columns 1 and 2; the string `` to " in columns 3 to 6; the destination country code B right-justified in columns 7 and 8; the string ``: " in columns 9 and 10; and a single integer indicating the minimum number of moves required to traverse from country A to country B in the test set left-justified starting in column 11. Following all result lines of each input set, your program should print a single blank line.
1 3 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 1 6 1 7 2 12 13 1 8 2 9 10 1 11 1 11 2 12 17 1 14 2 14 15 2 15 16 1 16 1 19 2 18 19 1 20 1 20 5 1 20 2 9 19 5 18 19 16 20 4 2 3 5 6 1 4 3 4 10 5 5 10 11 12 19 18 2 6 7 2 7 8 2 9 10 1 9 1 10 2 11 14 3 12 13 14 3 18 17 13 4 14 15 16 17 0 0 0 2 18 20 1 19 1 20 6 1 20 8 20 15 16 11 4 7 13 2 16
Test Set #1 1 to 20: 7 2 to 9: 5 19 to 5: 6 18 to 19: 2 16 to 20: 2 Test Set #2 1 to 20: 4 8 to 20: 5 15 to 16: 2 11 to 4: 1 7 to 13: 3 2 to 16: 4