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+--- Day 4: Ceres Search ---
+"Looks like the Chief's not here. Next!" One of The Historians pulls out a device and pushes the only button on it. After a brief flash, you recognize the interior of the Ceres monitoring station!
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+As the search for the Chief continues, a small Elf who lives on the station tugs on your shirt; she'd like to know if you could help her with her word search (your puzzle input). She only has to find one word: XMAS.
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+This word search allows words to be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, written backwards, or even overlapping other words. It's a little unusual, though, as you don't merely need to find one instance of XMAS - you need to find all of them. Here are a few ways XMAS might appear, where irrelevant characters have been replaced with .:
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+
+..X...
+.SAMX.
+.A..A.
+XMAS.S
+.X....
+The actual word search will be full of letters instead. For example:
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+MMMSXXMASM
+MSAMXMSMSA
+AMXSXMAAMM
+MSAMASMSMX
+XMASAMXAMM
+XXAMMXXAMA
+SMSMSASXSS
+SAXAMASAAA
+MAMMMXMMMM
+MXMXAXMASX
+In this word search, XMAS occurs a total of 18 times; here's the same word search again, but where letters not involved in any XMAS have been replaced with .:
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+....XXMAS.
+.SAMXMS...
+...S..A...
+..A.A.MS.X
+XMASAMX.MM
+X.....XA.A
+S.S.S.S.SS
+.A.A.A.A.A
+..M.M.M.MM
+.X.X.XMASX
+Take a look at the little Elf's word search. How many times does XMAS appear?
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+To begin, get your puzzle input.