Problem H
Tomb Hater
You’ve discovered the long-lost tomb of the great pharaoh T’om Bha Ter. After eluding a devious sequence of snake traps, boulder traps, ant traps, sand traps and speed traps, you’ve about had it with traps. Only one challenge remains between you and a hoard of priceless, museum-belonging-in artifacts. You enter a room from the North whose floor is a rectangular grid, each tile of which is inscribed with a glyph. A small plaque contains a list of glyph words (constructed from individual glyphs in a specified order) and the following brief set of instructions:
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From any given tile you may only move one tile to the South, West or East.
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You may not step on a tile more than once.
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The path you take must spell out a sequence of complete glyph words from the given list (repetition of glyph words is allowed).
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If multiple paths exist, you must find the path that steps on the least number of tiles.
Disobey any of these rules and you’ll find yourself hurtling into a bottomless abyss. Since you brought your laptop, you immediately get to coding.
Input
Input starts with a line containing three positive integers $m$ $n$ $k$ ($ m,n,k \leq 50$), where $m$ and $n$ are the dimensions of the rectangular grid and $k$ is the number of glyph words. The next $m$ lines contain $n$ upper-case letters, separated by single spaces, representing the rectangular grid. The next $k$ lines each contain a glyph word, also consisting entirely of capital letters. Each glyph word will contain at most $50$ letters.
Output
If there is a route that starts at any Northernmost tile, ends at any Southernmost tile, and obeys all of the above rules, output the length of the shortest such route. Otherwise output impossible.
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Sample Input 1 | Sample Output 1 |
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3 4 1 X X P X X X A T X X X H PATH |
4 |
Sample Input 2 | Sample Output 2 |
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5 5 2 X X P X X X X A T X X X H H X X M O X X X E X X X HOME PATH |
8 |
Sample Input 3 | Sample Output 3 |
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5 5 2 X X P X X X X A T X X X H X X X M O X X X E X X X HOME PATH |
impossible |