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Recursive Backtracking Maze Solver

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Flowchart showing recursive maze backtracking: check destination, validate step, mark visited, recurse neighbors, backtrack on dead ends.
Flowchart showing recursive maze backtracking: check destination, validate step, mark visited, recurse neighbors, backtrack on dead ends.
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What it shows

  • Mark visited cells to avoid infinite loops across cyclic corridors.
  • Evaluate cardinal neighbors sequentially (North, East, South, West).
  • Unwind the stack and unmark failed paths when hitting a dead end.

The takeaway

Backtracking is brute force with memory: prune dead ends as soon as constraints fail.

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