you aren't really trying to minimize anything. I just wrote a simple gaussian elimination solver that generates all N solutions (the win condition is that all t

you aren't really trying to minimize anything. I just wrote a simple gaussian elimination solver that generates all N solutions (the win condition is that all the cells are the same color, not a specific one) and then chooses the one with the least moves. It is optimal. It pretty much always gets over 200% efficiency. I can't really say that your calculation is off, just that you're not doing one at all. Maybe try not asking chatgpt to do it for you...