[jrpt]

The problem isn't difficult without programming. It's the programming that's elegant because it's an interesting way to solve the program, by expressing their statements as functions and using the know and tell functions. It's actually really great how the logic was translated in code, almost like a direct translation from English to Python. Now that I know how to write the program, if the puzzle were to get rapidly more complex, say with 20 different statements of moderate complexity, I feel confident I could solve it with a program whereas I might struggle with pencil and paper.