spelling-bee

Spelling Bee

How many bees are in the beehive?

• bees can be facing UP, DOWN, LEFT, or RIGHT
• bees can share parts of other bees

Examples

Ex1

bee.bee
.e..e..
.b..eeb

Answer: 5

Ex2

bee.bee
e.e.e.e
eeb.eeb

Answer: 8

Notes

• The hive may be empty or null/None/nil/...
• Python: the hive is passed as a list of lists (not a list of strings)