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 Take a look at the little Elf's word search. How many times does XMAS appear?
 
-To begin, get your puzzle input.
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+Your puzzle answer was 2517.
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+The first half of this puzzle is complete! It provides one gold star: *
+--- Part Two ---
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+The Elf looks quizzically at you. Did you misunderstand the assignment?
+
+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
+.A.
+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......
+..A..MSMS.
+.M.S.MAA..
+..A.ASMSM.
+.M.S.M....
+..........
+S.S.S.S.S.
+.A.A.A.A..
+M.M.M.M.M.
+..........
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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?