Count me in in the search
I have noticed that the grey bean has not been used at all in any of the combinations. I am on the 4 bean level right now (4 days left). I should be able to help in the 7 or 8 bean level sometime next month.
The 8 bean combinations are going to be immense but not as bad as you predict. First, you will know the first bean color for each flower and if we can eliminate the grey bean then it might become managable with enough help. There will still be 10 million combinations at the 8 been level. ((8^7)*5) and better yet on average the searchs will be found half way throught the search process. So you should be able to find all the combinations with 5 million attempts. This is still a ton of work but it is alot better than 43 million.
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