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--- Part Two ---
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The Elf looks quizzically at you. Did you misunderstand the assignment?
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Looking for the instructions, you flip over the word search to find that this isn't actually an XMAS puzzle; it's an X-MAS puzzle in which you're supposed to find two MAS in the shape of an X. One way to achieve that is like this:
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M.S
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.A.
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M.S
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Irrelevant characters have again been replaced with . in the above diagram. Within the X, each MAS can be written forwards or backwards.
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Here's the same example from before, but this time all of the X-MASes have been kept instead:
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.M.S......
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..A..MSMS.
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.M.S.MAA..
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..A.ASMSM.
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.M.S.M....
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..........
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S.S.S.S.S.
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.A.A.A.A..
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M.M.M.M.M.
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..........
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In this example, an X-MAS appears 9 times.
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Flip the word search from the instructions back over to the word search side and try again. How many times does an X-MAS appear?
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