Minesweeper ReversedProblem code: MINESREV |
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You are probably familiar with the classic computer game called Minesweeper. In case you're not, here's a short description. The game is played on a rectangular grid with R rows and C columns. Some cells contain mines and the others are empty. Initially, all cells are closed - their content is hidden. A player has to open all empty cells without opening a cell which contains a mine. You can open a cell by clicking on it. Opening an empty cells displays a number of mines in the neighbouring 8 cells. In case there aren't any mines in the neighbourhood, all neighbouring cells are automatically opened. This way you can open large mine-free areas with a single click.
As the name of this problem suggests, you will be dealing with a reversed process of minesweeping. A player starts with a grid where all cells are open and are either empty or contain a mine. The goal of this reversed game is to hide the mines by closing all cells as fast as possible. There are two ways to close a cell. You can either click on it or the cell can automatically close as a result of clicking on some other cell. Clicking on a cell C1 closes all cells C2 which could open simultaneously with C1 in a normal game of Minesweeper (as a result of a single click somewhere on the grid). More formally, let Sx,y be a set of all cells which are opened when you click on the cell (x,y) in a normal game of Minesweeper. Clicking on a cell C1 will also close all cells C2 such that there exists a set Sx,y which contains both C1 and C2. You can safely click on a mine cell to close it. The goal is to close all cells with as few clicks as possible.
Input
The first line contains a single integer T, the number of test cases. The first line of each testcase contains number of rows R and number of columns C. Following lines describe the playing grid. '.' represents an empty cell and '*' indicates a mine.
Output
Output a single line containing the minumum number of clicks necessary to close all cells.
Constraints
- 1 <= T <= 50
- 1 <= R,C <= 50
Example
Input: 2 3 8 **...*.. .....*.. ...***.. 2 1 * * Output: 9 2
| Date: | 2011-04-27 |
| Time limit: | 5s |
| Source limit: | 50000B |
| Languages: | All |
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