First puzzle

This puzzle will deal with the generation of a “password.” The password is a string of characters from “a” to “z.” To get a new password, you need to add 1 to the least significant character of the old password. This addition will increase the letter “value” based on its alphabet position. For example:

• Old password: “xx” + 1 => New password: “xy”
• Old password: “xz” + 1 => New password: “ya”

For a password to be valid, the following properties needs to be true:

• It should include an increasing straight of at least three letters. Ex. “abc”, “cde”.
• It should not contain the letters “i”, “o” or “l.”
• It should contain at least two different not overlapping letter paid. Ex. “aa”, “bb”, “cc.”

Some examples to test our code from the puzzle definition:

• “hijklmmn” => It is not a valid password because it doesn’t have the second property.
• “abbceffg” => It is not a valid password because it doesn’t have the first property.
• “abbcegjk” => It is not a valid password because it doesn’t have the third property.
• For input: “abcdefgh”, next password: “abcdffaa”
• For input: “ghijklmn”, next password: “ghjaabcc”

The input of the puzzle is the current password. First, it is useful to define an “inc” function to be able to find the next possible password by adding 1 to the characters. Then, the solution should be found by incrementing the password until a string presenting the above properties is found:

Second puzzle

The second puzzle solution is to find the next valid password. It is just evaluating the same calculation taking the first puzzle solution as input:

You can find this code along with my input and puzzle answers at here.