# 773. Sliding Puzzle

On a 2x3 `board`, there are 5 tiles represented by the integers 1 through 5, and an empty square represented by 0.

A move consists of choosing `0` and a 4-directionally adjacent number and swapping it.

The state of the board is *solved* if and only if the `board` is `[[1,2,3],[4,5,0]].`

Given a puzzle board, return the least number of moves required so that the state of the board is solved. If it is impossible for the state of the board to be solved, return -1.

**Examples:**

```
Input: board = [[1,2,3],[4,0,5]]
Output: 1
Explanation: Swap the 0 and the 5 in one move.
```

```
Input: board = [[1,2,3],[5,4,0]]
Output: -1
Explanation: No number of moves will make the board solved.
```

```
Input: board = [[4,1,2],[5,0,3]]
Output: 5
Explanation: 5 is the smallest number of moves that solves the board.
An example path:
After move 0: [[4,1,2],[5,0,3]]
After move 1: [[4,1,2],[0,5,3]]
After move 2: [[0,1,2],[4,5,3]]
After move 3: [[1,0,2],[4,5,3]]
After move 4: [[1,2,0],[4,5,3]]
After move 5: [[1,2,3],[4,5,0]]
```

```
Input: board = [[3,2,4],[1,5,0]]
Output: 14
```

**Note:**

* `board` will be a 2 x 3 array as described above.
* `board[i][j]` will be a permutation of `[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]`.

```cpp
string swap(string str, int cur, int next) {
    char tmp = str[cur];
    str[cur] = str[next];
    str[next] = tmp;
    return str;
}
int slidingPuzzle(vector<vector<int>>& board) {
    int m = board.size(), n = board[0].size();
    // Encode 2D matrix to string
    const string target = "123450";
    string start;
    for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
        for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
            start += to_string(board[i][j]);
        }
    }
    vector<vector<int> > dirs({{1, 3}, {0, 2, 4}, {1, 5}, {0, 4}, {1, 3, 5}, {2, 4}});
    queue<string> q({start});
    unordered_set<string> visited({start});
    int res = 0;
    while (!q.empty()) {
        int size = q.size();
        for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
            string cur = q.front(); q.pop();
            if (cur == target) return res;
            int zero_pos = cur.find("0");
            for (int next_pos : dirs[zero_pos]) {
                string next_str = swap(cur, zero_pos, next_pos);
                if (visited.count(next_str)) continue;
                visited.insert(next_str);
                q.push(next_str);
            }
        }
        ++res;
    }
    return -1;
}
```


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