The Hungry Mouse











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Sixteen piles of cheese are put on a 4x4 square. They're labeled from $1$ to $16$. The smallest pile is $1$ and the biggest one is $16$.



The Hungry Mouse is so hungry that it always goes straight to the biggest pile (i.e. $16$) and eats it right away.



After that, it goes to the biggest neighboring pile and quickly eats that one as well. (Yeah ... It's really hungry.) And so on until there's no neighboring pile anymore.



A pile may have up to 8 neighbors (horizontally, vertically and diagonally). There's no wrap-around.



Example



We start with the following piles of cheese:



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&11&4\
14&1&16&2
end{matrix}$$



The Hungry Mouse first eats $16$, and then its biggest neighbor pile, which is $11$.



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&🐭&4\
14&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



Its next moves are $13$, $12$, $10$, $8$, $15$, $14$, $9$, $6$, $7$ and $3$ in this exact order.



$$begin{matrix}
🐭&color{grey}leftarrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&5\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&color{grey}uparrow&color{grey}leftarrow\
color{grey}downarrow&smallcolor{grey}nwarrow&smallcolor{grey}nearrow&4\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



There's no cheese anymore around the Hungry Mouse, so it stops there.



The challenge



Given the initial cheese configuration, your code must print or return the sum of the remaining piles once the Hungry Mouse has stopped eating them.



For the above example, the expected answer is $12$.



Rules




  • Because the size of the input matrix is fixed, you may take it as either a 2D array or a one-dimensional array.

  • Each value from $1$ to $16$ is guaranteed to appear exactly once.

  • This is code-golf.


Test cases



[ [ 4,  3,  2,  1], [ 5,  6,  7,  8], [12, 11, 10,  9], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 0
[ [ 8, 1, 9, 14], [11, 6, 5, 16], [13, 15, 2, 7], [10, 3, 12, 4] ] --> 0
[ [ 1, 2, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 1
[ [10, 15, 14, 11], [ 9, 3, 1, 7], [13, 5, 12, 6], [ 2, 8, 4, 16] ] --> 3
[ [ 3, 7, 10, 5], [ 6, 8, 12, 13], [15, 9, 11, 4], [14, 1, 16, 2] ] --> 12
[ [ 8, 9, 3, 6], [13, 11, 7, 15], [12, 10, 16, 2], [ 4, 14, 1, 5] ] --> 34
[ [ 8, 11, 12, 9], [14, 5, 10, 16], [ 7, 3, 1, 6], [13, 4, 2, 15] ] --> 51
[ [13, 14, 1, 2], [16, 15, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12] ] --> 78
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 4, 13], [ 7, 8, 5, 14], [ 3, 16, 6, 15] ] --> 102
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 7, 13], [ 6, 16, 4, 14], [ 3, 8, 5, 15] ] --> 103









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  • 78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    ...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
    – xnor
    yesterday






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    After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
    – akozi
    14 hours ago















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Sixteen piles of cheese are put on a 4x4 square. They're labeled from $1$ to $16$. The smallest pile is $1$ and the biggest one is $16$.



The Hungry Mouse is so hungry that it always goes straight to the biggest pile (i.e. $16$) and eats it right away.



After that, it goes to the biggest neighboring pile and quickly eats that one as well. (Yeah ... It's really hungry.) And so on until there's no neighboring pile anymore.



A pile may have up to 8 neighbors (horizontally, vertically and diagonally). There's no wrap-around.



Example



We start with the following piles of cheese:



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&11&4\
14&1&16&2
end{matrix}$$



The Hungry Mouse first eats $16$, and then its biggest neighbor pile, which is $11$.



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&🐭&4\
14&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



Its next moves are $13$, $12$, $10$, $8$, $15$, $14$, $9$, $6$, $7$ and $3$ in this exact order.



$$begin{matrix}
🐭&color{grey}leftarrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&5\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&color{grey}uparrow&color{grey}leftarrow\
color{grey}downarrow&smallcolor{grey}nwarrow&smallcolor{grey}nearrow&4\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



There's no cheese anymore around the Hungry Mouse, so it stops there.



The challenge



Given the initial cheese configuration, your code must print or return the sum of the remaining piles once the Hungry Mouse has stopped eating them.



For the above example, the expected answer is $12$.



Rules




  • Because the size of the input matrix is fixed, you may take it as either a 2D array or a one-dimensional array.

  • Each value from $1$ to $16$ is guaranteed to appear exactly once.

  • This is code-golf.


Test cases



[ [ 4,  3,  2,  1], [ 5,  6,  7,  8], [12, 11, 10,  9], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 0
[ [ 8, 1, 9, 14], [11, 6, 5, 16], [13, 15, 2, 7], [10, 3, 12, 4] ] --> 0
[ [ 1, 2, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 1
[ [10, 15, 14, 11], [ 9, 3, 1, 7], [13, 5, 12, 6], [ 2, 8, 4, 16] ] --> 3
[ [ 3, 7, 10, 5], [ 6, 8, 12, 13], [15, 9, 11, 4], [14, 1, 16, 2] ] --> 12
[ [ 8, 9, 3, 6], [13, 11, 7, 15], [12, 10, 16, 2], [ 4, 14, 1, 5] ] --> 34
[ [ 8, 11, 12, 9], [14, 5, 10, 16], [ 7, 3, 1, 6], [13, 4, 2, 15] ] --> 51
[ [13, 14, 1, 2], [16, 15, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12] ] --> 78
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 4, 13], [ 7, 8, 5, 14], [ 3, 16, 6, 15] ] --> 102
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 7, 13], [ 6, 16, 4, 14], [ 3, 8, 5, 15] ] --> 103









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    yesterday












  • 78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    ...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
    – xnor
    yesterday






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    After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
    – akozi
    14 hours ago













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Sixteen piles of cheese are put on a 4x4 square. They're labeled from $1$ to $16$. The smallest pile is $1$ and the biggest one is $16$.



The Hungry Mouse is so hungry that it always goes straight to the biggest pile (i.e. $16$) and eats it right away.



After that, it goes to the biggest neighboring pile and quickly eats that one as well. (Yeah ... It's really hungry.) And so on until there's no neighboring pile anymore.



A pile may have up to 8 neighbors (horizontally, vertically and diagonally). There's no wrap-around.



Example



We start with the following piles of cheese:



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&11&4\
14&1&16&2
end{matrix}$$



The Hungry Mouse first eats $16$, and then its biggest neighbor pile, which is $11$.



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&🐭&4\
14&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



Its next moves are $13$, $12$, $10$, $8$, $15$, $14$, $9$, $6$, $7$ and $3$ in this exact order.



$$begin{matrix}
🐭&color{grey}leftarrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&5\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&color{grey}uparrow&color{grey}leftarrow\
color{grey}downarrow&smallcolor{grey}nwarrow&smallcolor{grey}nearrow&4\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



There's no cheese anymore around the Hungry Mouse, so it stops there.



The challenge



Given the initial cheese configuration, your code must print or return the sum of the remaining piles once the Hungry Mouse has stopped eating them.



For the above example, the expected answer is $12$.



Rules




  • Because the size of the input matrix is fixed, you may take it as either a 2D array or a one-dimensional array.

  • Each value from $1$ to $16$ is guaranteed to appear exactly once.

  • This is code-golf.


Test cases



[ [ 4,  3,  2,  1], [ 5,  6,  7,  8], [12, 11, 10,  9], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 0
[ [ 8, 1, 9, 14], [11, 6, 5, 16], [13, 15, 2, 7], [10, 3, 12, 4] ] --> 0
[ [ 1, 2, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 1
[ [10, 15, 14, 11], [ 9, 3, 1, 7], [13, 5, 12, 6], [ 2, 8, 4, 16] ] --> 3
[ [ 3, 7, 10, 5], [ 6, 8, 12, 13], [15, 9, 11, 4], [14, 1, 16, 2] ] --> 12
[ [ 8, 9, 3, 6], [13, 11, 7, 15], [12, 10, 16, 2], [ 4, 14, 1, 5] ] --> 34
[ [ 8, 11, 12, 9], [14, 5, 10, 16], [ 7, 3, 1, 6], [13, 4, 2, 15] ] --> 51
[ [13, 14, 1, 2], [16, 15, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12] ] --> 78
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 4, 13], [ 7, 8, 5, 14], [ 3, 16, 6, 15] ] --> 102
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 7, 13], [ 6, 16, 4, 14], [ 3, 8, 5, 15] ] --> 103









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Sixteen piles of cheese are put on a 4x4 square. They're labeled from $1$ to $16$. The smallest pile is $1$ and the biggest one is $16$.



The Hungry Mouse is so hungry that it always goes straight to the biggest pile (i.e. $16$) and eats it right away.



After that, it goes to the biggest neighboring pile and quickly eats that one as well. (Yeah ... It's really hungry.) And so on until there's no neighboring pile anymore.



A pile may have up to 8 neighbors (horizontally, vertically and diagonally). There's no wrap-around.



Example



We start with the following piles of cheese:



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&11&4\
14&1&16&2
end{matrix}$$



The Hungry Mouse first eats $16$, and then its biggest neighbor pile, which is $11$.



$$begin{matrix}
3&7&10&5\
6&8&12&13\
15&9&🐭&4\
14&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



Its next moves are $13$, $12$, $10$, $8$, $15$, $14$, $9$, $6$, $7$ and $3$ in this exact order.



$$begin{matrix}
🐭&color{grey}leftarrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&5\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&smallcolor{grey}swarrow&color{grey}uparrow&color{grey}leftarrow\
color{grey}downarrow&smallcolor{grey}nwarrow&smallcolor{grey}nearrow&4\
smallcolor{grey}nearrow&1&color{grey}uparrow&2
end{matrix}$$



There's no cheese anymore around the Hungry Mouse, so it stops there.



The challenge



Given the initial cheese configuration, your code must print or return the sum of the remaining piles once the Hungry Mouse has stopped eating them.



For the above example, the expected answer is $12$.



Rules




  • Because the size of the input matrix is fixed, you may take it as either a 2D array or a one-dimensional array.

  • Each value from $1$ to $16$ is guaranteed to appear exactly once.

  • This is code-golf.


Test cases



[ [ 4,  3,  2,  1], [ 5,  6,  7,  8], [12, 11, 10,  9], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 0
[ [ 8, 1, 9, 14], [11, 6, 5, 16], [13, 15, 2, 7], [10, 3, 12, 4] ] --> 0
[ [ 1, 2, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16] ] --> 1
[ [10, 15, 14, 11], [ 9, 3, 1, 7], [13, 5, 12, 6], [ 2, 8, 4, 16] ] --> 3
[ [ 3, 7, 10, 5], [ 6, 8, 12, 13], [15, 9, 11, 4], [14, 1, 16, 2] ] --> 12
[ [ 8, 9, 3, 6], [13, 11, 7, 15], [12, 10, 16, 2], [ 4, 14, 1, 5] ] --> 34
[ [ 8, 11, 12, 9], [14, 5, 10, 16], [ 7, 3, 1, 6], [13, 4, 2, 15] ] --> 51
[ [13, 14, 1, 2], [16, 15, 3, 4], [ 5, 6, 7, 8], [ 9, 10, 11, 12] ] --> 78
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 4, 13], [ 7, 8, 5, 14], [ 3, 16, 6, 15] ] --> 102
[ [ 9, 10, 11, 12], [ 1, 2, 7, 13], [ 6, 16, 4, 14], [ 3, 8, 5, 15] ] --> 103






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    +1 for that mouse character
    – Luis Mendo
    yesterday












  • 78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    ...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








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    What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
    – xnor
    yesterday






  • 6




    After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
    – akozi
    14 hours ago














  • 18




    +1 for that mouse character
    – Luis Mendo
    yesterday












  • 78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








  • 2




    ...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
    – Jonathan Allan
    yesterday








  • 7




    What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
    – xnor
    yesterday






  • 6




    After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
    – akozi
    14 hours ago








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+1 for that mouse character
– Luis Mendo
yesterday






+1 for that mouse character
– Luis Mendo
yesterday














78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
– Jonathan Allan
yesterday






78? You can be meaner than that! I think 102 is as mean as one can get though (e.g. [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 4, 13], [7, 8, 5, 14], [3, 16, 6, 15]]) - hmm [0, 0, 19, 102, ...]
– Jonathan Allan
yesterday






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...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
– Jonathan Allan
yesterday






...make that 103: [[9, 10, 11, 12], [1, 2, 7, 13], [6, 16, 4, 14], [3, 8, 5, 15]]
– Jonathan Allan
yesterday






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What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
– xnor
yesterday




What a nicely written challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the best-of nominations.
– xnor
yesterday




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After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
– akozi
14 hours ago




After misreading I was a little sad that this was not a hungry moose.
– akozi
14 hours ago










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Python 2, 133 130 bytes





a=input();m=16
for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,
while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
print sum(a)


Try it online!



Takes a flattened list of 16 elements.



How it works



a=input();m=16

# Add zero padding on each row, and enough zeroes at the end to avoid index error
for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,

# m == maximum element found in last iteration
# i == index of last eaten element
# eaten elements of `a` are reset to 0
while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
print sum(a)





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  • The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
    – xnor
    yesterday






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    Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
    – xnor
    yesterday


















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PHP, 177 174 171 bytes



for($v=16;$v;$u+=$v=max($p%4-1?max($a[$p-5],$a[$p-1],$a[$p+3]):0,$a[$p-4],$a[$p+4],$p%4?max($a[$p-3],$a[$p+1],$a[$p+5]):0))$a[$p=array_search($v,$a=&$argv)]=0;echo 120-$u;


Run with -nr, provide matrix elements as arguments or try it online.






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    Python 2, 111 bytes





    i=x=a=input()
    while x:x,i=max((y,j)for j,y in enumerate(a)if i>or 2>i/4-j/4>-2<i%4-j%4<2);a[i]=0
    print sum(a)


    Try it online!



    Method and test cases adapted from Bubbler. Takes a flat list on STDIN.



    The code checks whether two flat indices i and j represent touching cells by checking that both row different i/4-j/4 and column difference i%4-j%4 are strictly between -2 and 2. The first pass instead has this check automatically succeed so that the largest entry is found disregarding adjacency.






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      MATL, 50 49 47 bytes



      16:HZ^!"2G@m1ZIm~]v16eXK68E16b"Ky0)Y)fyX-X>h]s-


      Input is a matrix, using ; as row separator.



      Try it online! Or verify all test cases.



      Explanation



      16:HZ^!  % Cartesian power of [1 2 ... 16] with exponent 2, transpose. Gives a 
      % 2-row matrix with 1st column [1; 1], 2nd [1; 2], ..., last [16; 16]
      " % For each column, say [k; j]
      2 % Push 2
      G@m % Push input matrix, then current column [k; j], then check membership.
      % This gives a 4×4 matrix that contains 1 for entries of the input that
      % contain k or j
      1ZI % Connected components (based on 8-neighbourhood) of nonzero entries.
      % This gives a 4×4 matrix with each connected component labeled with
      % values 1, 2, ... respectively
      m~ % True if 2 is not present in this matrix. That means there is only
      % one connected component; that is, k and j are neighbours in the
      % input matrix, or k=j
      ] % End
      v16e % The stack now has 256 values. Concatenate them into a vector and
      % reshape as a 16×16 matrix. This matrix describes neighbourhood: entry
      % (k,j) is 1 if values k and j are neighbours in the input or if k=j
      XK % Copy into clipboard K
      68E % Push 68 times 2, that is, 136, which is 1+2+...+16
      16 % Push 16. This is the initial value eaten by the mouse. New values will
      % be appended to create a vector of eaten values
      b % Bubble up the 16×16 matrix to the top of the stack
      " % For each column. This just executes the loop 16 times
      K % Push neighbourhood matrix from clipboard K
      y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
      0) % Get last value. This is the most recent eaten value
      Y) % Get that row of the neighbourhood matrix
      f % Indices of nonzeros. This gives a vector of neighbours of the last
      % eaten value
      y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
      X- % Set difference (may give an empty result)
      X> % Maximum value. This is the new eaten value (maximum neighbour not
      % already eaten). May be empty, if all neighbours are already eaten
      h % Concatenate to vector of eaten values
      ] % End
      s % Sum of vector of all eaten values
      - % Subtract from 136. Implicitly display





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      • Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
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      Charcoal, 47 bytes



      EA⭆ι§αλ≔QθW›θA«≔⌕KAθθJ﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴≔⌈KMθA»≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ⎚Iθ


      Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:



      EA⭆ι§αλ


      Convert the input numbers into alphabetic characters (A=0 .. Q=16) and print them as a 4x4 grid.



      ≔Qθ


      Start by eating the Q, i.e. 16.



      W›θA«


      Repeat while there is something to eat.



      ≔⌕KAθθ


      Find where the pile is. This is a linear view in row-major order.



      J﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴


      Convert to co-ordinates and jump to that location.



      ≔⌈KMθ


      Find the largest adjacent pile.






      Eat the current pile.



      ≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ


      Convert the piles back to integers and take the sum.



      ⎚Iθ


      Clear the canvas and output the result.






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        JavaScript, 122 bytes



        I took more than a couple of wrong turns on this one and now I've run out of time for further golfing but at least it's working. Will revisit tomorrow (or, knowing me, on the train home this evening!), if I can find a minute.



        a=>(g=n=>n?g([-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6].map(x=>n=a[x+=i]>n?a[x]:n,a[i=a.indexOf(n)]=n=0)|n)-n:120)(16,a=a.flatMap(x=>[...x,0]))


        Try it online






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          +1 for flatMap() :p
          – Arnauld
          10 hours ago










        • :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
          – Shaggy
          10 hours ago






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          I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
          – Arnauld
          10 hours ago










        • Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
          – Arnauld
          8 hours ago












        • Finally reached 103 bytes.
          – Arnauld
          6 hours ago


















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        SAS, 236 219 bytes



        Input on punch cards, one line per grid (space-separated), output printed to the log.



        This challenge is slightly complicated by the fact that SAS has no way to return the row and column indexes of a matching element from multidimensional data-step array - you have to treat the array as 1-d and then work them out for yourself.



        data;input a1-a16;array a[4,4]a:;p=16;t=136;do while(p);m=whichn(p,of a:);t=t-p;j=mod(m-1,4)+1;i=ceil(m/4);a[i,j]=0;p=0;do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);p=max(p,a[k,l]);end;end;end;put t;cards;
        <insert punch cards here>
        ;


        Updates:




        • Removed infile cards; statement (-13)

        • Used wildcard a: for array definition rather than a1-a16 (-4)


        Ungolfed version:



        data;                /*Produce a dataset using automatic naming*/
        input a1-a16; /*Read 16 variables*/
        array a[4,4] a:; /*Assign to a 4x4 array*/
        p=16; /*Initial pile to look for*/
        t=136; /*Total cheese to decrement*/
        do while(p); /*Stop if there are no piles available with size > 0*/
        m=whichn(p,of a:); /*Find array element containing current pile size*/
        t=t-p; /*Decrement total cheese*/
        j=mod(m-1,4)+1; /*Get column number*/
        i=ceil(m/4); /*Get row number*/
        a[i,j]=0; /*Eat the current pile*/
        /*Find the size of the largest adjacent pile*/
        p=0;
        do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);
        do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);
        p=max(p,a[k,l]);
        end;
        end;
        end;
        put t; /*Print total remaining cheese to log*/
        /*Start of punch card input*/
        cards;
        4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 12 11 10 9 13 14 15 16
        8 1 9 14 11 6 5 16 13 15 2 7 10 3 12 4
        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
        10 15 14 11 9 3 1 7 13 5 12 6 2 8 4 16
        3 7 10 5 6 8 12 13 15 9 11 4 14 1 16 2
        8 9 3 6 13 11 7 15 12 10 16 2 4 14 1 5
        8 11 12 9 14 5 10 16 7 3 1 6 13 4 2 15
        13 14 1 2 16 15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
        9 10 11 12 1 2 4 13 7 8 5 14 3 16 6 15
        9 10 11 12 1 2 7 13 6 16 4 14 3 8 5 15
        ; /*End of punch card input*/
        /*Implicit run;*/





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        • +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
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        J, 82 bytes



        g=.](]*{:@[~:])]_1}~[:>./]{~((,-)1 5 6 7)+]i.{:
        [:+/[:(g^:_)16,~[:,0,~0,0,0,.~0,.]


        Try it online!



        I plan to golf this more tomorrow, and perhaps write a more J-ish solution similar to this one, but I figured I'd try the flattened approach since I hadn't done that before.






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        • Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
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        • Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
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        Red, 277 bytes



        func[a][k: 16 until[t:(index? find load form a k)- 1
        p: do rejoin[t / 4 + 1"x"t % 4 + 1]a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
        m: 0 foreach d[-1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1][j: p + d
        if all[j/1 > 0 j/1 < 5 j/2 > 0 j/2 < 5 m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)][m: t]]0 = k: m]s: 0
        foreach n load form a[s: s + n]s]


        Try it online!



        It's really long solution and I'm not happy with it, but I spent so much time fixing it to work in TIO (apparently there are many differences between the Win and Linux stable versions of Red), so I post it anyway...



        More readable:



        f: func [ a ] [
        k: 16
        until [
        t: (index? find load form a n) - 1
        p: do rejoin [ t / 4 + 1 "x" t % 4 + 1 ]
        a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
        m: 0
        foreach d [ -1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1 ] [
        j: p + d
        if all[ j/1 > 0
        j/1 < 5
        j/2 > 0
        j/2 < 5
        m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)
        ] [ m: t ]
        ]
        0 = k: m
        ]
        s: 0
        foreach n load form a [ s: s + n ]
        s
        ]





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          Java 10, 272 bytes





          m->{int r=0,c=0,R=4,C,M=1,x,y,X=0,Y=0;for(;R-->0;)for(C=4;C-->0;)if(m[R][C]>15)m[r=R][c=C]=0;for(;M!=0;m[r=X][c=Y]=0)for(M=-1,C=9;C-->0;)try{if((R=m[x=C<3?r-1:C>5?r+1:r][y=C%3<1?c-1:C%3>1?c+1:c])>M){M=R;X=x;Y=y;}}catch(Exception e){}for(var Z:m)for(int z:Z)M+=z;return M;}


          The cells are checked the same as in my answer for the All the single eights challenge.



          Try it online.



          Explanation:



          m->{                       // Method with integer-matrix parameter and integer return-type
          int r=0, // Row-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
          c=0, // Column-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
          R=4,C, // Row and column indices (later reused as temp integers)
          M=1, // Largest number the mouse just ate, starting at 1
          x,y,X=0,Y=0; // Temp integers
          for(;R-->0;) // Loop `R` in the range (4, 0]:
          for(C=4;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (4, 0]:
          if(m[R][C]>15) // If the current cell is 16:
          m[r=R][c=C] // Set `r,c` to this coordinate
          =0; // And empty this cell
          for(;M!=0; // Loop as long as the largest number isn't 0:
          ; // After every iteration:
          m[r=X][c=Y] // Change the `r,c` coordinates,
          =0) // And empty this cell
          for(M=-1, // Reset `M` to -1
          C=9;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (9, 0]:
          try{if((R= // Set `R` to:
          m[x=C<3? // If `C` is 0, 1, or 2:
          r-1 // Look at the previous row
          :C>5? // Else-if `C` is 6, 7, or 8:
          r+1 // Look at the next row
          : // Else (`C` is 3, 4, or 5):
          r] // Look at the current row
          [y=C%3<1? // If `C` is 0, 3, or 6:
          c-1 // Look at the previous column
          :C%3>1? // Else-if `C` is 2, 5, or 8:
          c+1 // Look at the next column
          : // Else (`C` is 1, 4, or 7):
          c]) // Look at the current column
          >M){ // And if the number in this cell is larger than `M`
          M=R; // Change `M` to this number
          X=x;Y=y;} // And change the `X,Y` coordinate to this cell
          }catch(Exception e){}
          // Catch and ignore ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions
          // (try-catch saves bytes in comparison to if-checks)
          for(var Z:m) // Then loop over all rows of the matrix:
          for(int z:Z) // Inner loop over all columns of the matrix:
          M+=z; // And sum them all together in `M` (which was 0)
          return M;} // Then return this sum as result





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            Jelly,  31 30  29 bytes



            ³œiⱮZIỊȦ
            ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ
            FḟÇS


            Since the method is far too slow to run within 60s with the mouse starting on 16 this starts her off at 9 and limits her ability such that she is only able to eat 9s or less Try it online! (thus here she eats 9, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6, 3 leaving 97).



            How?



            ³œiⱮZIỊȦ - Link 1, isSatisfactory?: list of integers, possiblePileChoice
            ³ - (using a left argument of) program's 3rd command line argument (M)
            Ɱ - map across (possiblePileChoice) with:
            œi - first multi-dimensional index of (the item) in (M)
            Z - transpose the resulting list of [row, column] values
            I - get the incremental differences
            Ị - insignificant? (vectorises an abs(v) <= 1 test)
            Ȧ - any and all? (0 if any 0s are present in the flattened result [or if it's empty])

            ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ - Link 2, getChosenPileList: list of lists of integers, M
            ⁴ - literal 16
            Ṗ - pop -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
            ŒP - power-set -> [,[1],[2],...,[1,2],[1,3],...,[2,3,7],...,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]]
            € - for each:
            Œ! - all permutations
            Ẏ - tighten (to a single list of all these individual permutations)
            ⁴ - (using a left argument of) literal 16
            Ɱ - map across it with:
            ; - concatenate (put a 16 at the beginning of each one)
            Ṣ - sort the resulting list of lists
            Ƈ - filter keep those for which this is truthy:
            Ç - call last Link as a monad (i.e. isSatisfactory(possiblePileChoice)
            Ṫ - tail (get the right-most, i.e. the maximal satisfactory one)

            FḟÇS - Main Link: list of lists of integers, M
            F - flatten M
            Ç - call last Link (2) as a monad (i.e. get getChosenPileList(M))
            ḟ - filter discard (the resulting values) from (the flattened M)
            S - sum





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            • Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
              – Jonathan Allan
              yesterday






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              @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
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            Not my best work. There's some definite improvements to be done, some probably fundamental to the algorithm used -- I'm sure it can be improved by using only an int, but I couldn't figure out how to efficiently enumerate neighbors that way. I'd love to see a PowerShell solution that uses only a single dimensional array!




            PowerShell Core, 348 bytes





            Function F($o){$t=120;$a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};$m=16;while($m-gt0){0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};$m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;$t-=$m;$a[$r][$c]=0}$t}


            Try it online!





            More readable version:



            Function F($o){
            $t=120;
            $a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};
            0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};
            $m=16;
            while($m-gt0){
            0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};
            $m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;
            $t-=$m;
            $a[$r][$c]=0
            }
            $t
            }





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              R, 128 124 bytes





              r=rbind(0,cbind(0,matrix(scan(),4,4),0),0)
              m=which(r==16)
              while(r[m]){r[m]=0
              m=which(r==max(r[m+c(-7:-5,-1,1,5:7)]))}
              sum(r)


              Try it online!



              TIO link is slightly different, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work.



              I do feel like I can golf a lot more out of this. But this works for now.



              It creates a 4x4 matrix (which helped me to visualize things), pads it with 0's, then begins from 16 and searches it's surrounding "piles" for the next largest, and so forth.



              Upon conclusion, it does output a warning, but it is of no consequence and does not change the result.



              EDIT: -4 bytes by compressing the initialization of the matrix into 1 line






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                Powershell, 143 141 bytes



                -2 bytes: Yeah, one zero as delimiter is enough.





                $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                for($n=16;$n){$a[($i=$a.IndexOf($n))]=0
                [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{$a[$i+$_]}|measure -ma|% ma*}
                $a|%{$s+=$_}
                $s


                Less golfed test script:



                $f = {

                $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                for($n=16;$n){
                $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                $a[$i]=0
                [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                $a[$i+$_]
                }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                }
                $a|%{$s+=$_}
                $s

                }

                @(
                ,( 0 , ( 4, 3, 2, 1), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), (12, 11, 10, 9), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                ,( 0 , ( 8, 1, 9, 14), (11, 6, 5, 16), (13, 15, 2, 7), (10, 3, 12, 4) )
                ,( 1 , ( 1, 2, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                ,( 3 , (10, 15, 14, 11), ( 9, 3, 1, 7), (13, 5, 12, 6), ( 2, 8, 4, 16) )
                ,( 12 , ( 3, 7, 10, 5), ( 6, 8, 12, 13), (15, 9, 11, 4), (14, 1, 16, 2) )
                ,( 34 , ( 8, 9, 3, 6), (13, 11, 7, 15), (12, 10, 16, 2), ( 4, 14, 1, 5) )
                ,( 51 , ( 8, 11, 12, 9), (14, 5, 10, 16), ( 7, 3, 1, 6), (13, 4, 2, 15) )
                ,( 78 , (13, 14, 1, 2), (16, 15, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12) )
                ,( 102, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 4, 13), ( 7, 8, 5, 14), ( 3, 16, 6, 15) )
                ,( 103, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 7, 13), ( 6, 16, 4, 14), ( 3, 8, 5, 15) )
                ) | % {
                $expected, $a = $_
                $result = &$f @a
                "$($result-eq$expected): $result"
                }


                Output:



                True: 0
                True: 0
                True: 1
                True: 3
                True: 12
                True: 34
                True: 51
                True: 78
                True: 102
                True: 103


                Explanation:



                First, add a border of 0 and make a single dimensional array:





                0 0 0 0 0
                0 # # # #
                0 # # # #
                0 # # # #
                0 # # # #
                0 0 0 0 0



                0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 0 0 0 0 0


                Second, loop biggest neighbor pile started from 16 to non-zero-maximum. And nullify it (The Hungry Mouse eats it).





                for($n=16;$n){
                $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                $a[$i]=0
                [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                $a[$i+$_]
                }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                }


                Third, sum of the remaining piles.






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                  Python 2, 133 130 bytes





                  a=input();m=16
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)


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                  Takes a flattened list of 16 elements.



                  How it works



                  a=input();m=16

                  # Add zero padding on each row, and enough zeroes at the end to avoid index error
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,

                  # m == maximum element found in last iteration
                  # i == index of last eaten element
                  # eaten elements of `a` are reset to 0
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)





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                  • The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday






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                    Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
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                  Python 2, 133 130 bytes





                  a=input();m=16
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)


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                  Takes a flattened list of 16 elements.



                  How it works



                  a=input();m=16

                  # Add zero padding on each row, and enough zeroes at the end to avoid index error
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,

                  # m == maximum element found in last iteration
                  # i == index of last eaten element
                  # eaten elements of `a` are reset to 0
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)





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                  • The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday






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                    Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
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                    yesterday













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                  Python 2, 133 130 bytes





                  a=input();m=16
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)


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                  Takes a flattened list of 16 elements.



                  How it works



                  a=input();m=16

                  # Add zero padding on each row, and enough zeroes at the end to avoid index error
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,

                  # m == maximum element found in last iteration
                  # i == index of last eaten element
                  # eaten elements of `a` are reset to 0
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)





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                  Python 2, 133 130 bytes





                  a=input();m=16
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)


                  Try it online!



                  Takes a flattened list of 16 elements.



                  How it works



                  a=input();m=16

                  # Add zero padding on each row, and enough zeroes at the end to avoid index error
                  for i in range(m):a[i*5:i*5]=0,

                  # m == maximum element found in last iteration
                  # i == index of last eaten element
                  # eaten elements of `a` are reset to 0
                  while m:i=a.index(m);a[i]=0;m=max(a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6])
                  print sum(a)






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                  • The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday






                  • 1




                    Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday


















                  • The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday






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                    Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
                    – xnor
                    yesterday
















                  The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                  – xnor
                  yesterday




                  The adjacent-cell expression a[i+x]for x in[-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6] can be shortened to a[i+j+j/3*2-6]for j in range(9) (the zero entry is harmless). Python 3 can surely do shorter by hardcoding a length-8 bytestring, but Python 2 might still be better overall.
                  – xnor
                  yesterday




                  1




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                  Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
                  – xnor
                  yesterday




                  Though your zero padding loop is clever, it looks like it's shorter to take a 2D list: a=[0]*5 for r in input():a=r+[0]+a. Perhaps there's a yet shorter string slicing solution that doesn't require iterating.
                  – xnor
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                  PHP, 177 174 171 bytes



                  for($v=16;$v;$u+=$v=max($p%4-1?max($a[$p-5],$a[$p-1],$a[$p+3]):0,$a[$p-4],$a[$p+4],$p%4?max($a[$p-3],$a[$p+1],$a[$p+5]):0))$a[$p=array_search($v,$a=&$argv)]=0;echo 120-$u;


                  Run with -nr, provide matrix elements as arguments or try it online.






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                    PHP, 177 174 171 bytes



                    for($v=16;$v;$u+=$v=max($p%4-1?max($a[$p-5],$a[$p-1],$a[$p+3]):0,$a[$p-4],$a[$p+4],$p%4?max($a[$p-3],$a[$p+1],$a[$p+5]):0))$a[$p=array_search($v,$a=&$argv)]=0;echo 120-$u;


                    Run with -nr, provide matrix elements as arguments or try it online.






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                      PHP, 177 174 171 bytes



                      for($v=16;$v;$u+=$v=max($p%4-1?max($a[$p-5],$a[$p-1],$a[$p+3]):0,$a[$p-4],$a[$p+4],$p%4?max($a[$p-3],$a[$p+1],$a[$p+5]):0))$a[$p=array_search($v,$a=&$argv)]=0;echo 120-$u;


                      Run with -nr, provide matrix elements as arguments or try it online.






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                      PHP, 177 174 171 bytes



                      for($v=16;$v;$u+=$v=max($p%4-1?max($a[$p-5],$a[$p-1],$a[$p+3]):0,$a[$p-4],$a[$p+4],$p%4?max($a[$p-3],$a[$p+1],$a[$p+5]):0))$a[$p=array_search($v,$a=&$argv)]=0;echo 120-$u;


                      Run with -nr, provide matrix elements as arguments or try it online.







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                      Titus

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                          Python 2, 111 bytes





                          i=x=a=input()
                          while x:x,i=max((y,j)for j,y in enumerate(a)if i>or 2>i/4-j/4>-2<i%4-j%4<2);a[i]=0
                          print sum(a)


                          Try it online!



                          Method and test cases adapted from Bubbler. Takes a flat list on STDIN.



                          The code checks whether two flat indices i and j represent touching cells by checking that both row different i/4-j/4 and column difference i%4-j%4 are strictly between -2 and 2. The first pass instead has this check automatically succeed so that the largest entry is found disregarding adjacency.






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                            Python 2, 111 bytes





                            i=x=a=input()
                            while x:x,i=max((y,j)for j,y in enumerate(a)if i>or 2>i/4-j/4>-2<i%4-j%4<2);a[i]=0
                            print sum(a)


                            Try it online!



                            Method and test cases adapted from Bubbler. Takes a flat list on STDIN.



                            The code checks whether two flat indices i and j represent touching cells by checking that both row different i/4-j/4 and column difference i%4-j%4 are strictly between -2 and 2. The first pass instead has this check automatically succeed so that the largest entry is found disregarding adjacency.






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                              Python 2, 111 bytes





                              i=x=a=input()
                              while x:x,i=max((y,j)for j,y in enumerate(a)if i>or 2>i/4-j/4>-2<i%4-j%4<2);a[i]=0
                              print sum(a)


                              Try it online!



                              Method and test cases adapted from Bubbler. Takes a flat list on STDIN.



                              The code checks whether two flat indices i and j represent touching cells by checking that both row different i/4-j/4 and column difference i%4-j%4 are strictly between -2 and 2. The first pass instead has this check automatically succeed so that the largest entry is found disregarding adjacency.






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                              Python 2, 111 bytes





                              i=x=a=input()
                              while x:x,i=max((y,j)for j,y in enumerate(a)if i>or 2>i/4-j/4>-2<i%4-j%4<2);a[i]=0
                              print sum(a)


                              Try it online!



                              Method and test cases adapted from Bubbler. Takes a flat list on STDIN.



                              The code checks whether two flat indices i and j represent touching cells by checking that both row different i/4-j/4 and column difference i%4-j%4 are strictly between -2 and 2. The first pass instead has this check automatically succeed so that the largest entry is found disregarding adjacency.







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                                  MATL, 50 49 47 bytes



                                  16:HZ^!"2G@m1ZIm~]v16eXK68E16b"Ky0)Y)fyX-X>h]s-


                                  Input is a matrix, using ; as row separator.



                                  Try it online! Or verify all test cases.



                                  Explanation



                                  16:HZ^!  % Cartesian power of [1 2 ... 16] with exponent 2, transpose. Gives a 
                                  % 2-row matrix with 1st column [1; 1], 2nd [1; 2], ..., last [16; 16]
                                  " % For each column, say [k; j]
                                  2 % Push 2
                                  G@m % Push input matrix, then current column [k; j], then check membership.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix that contains 1 for entries of the input that
                                  % contain k or j
                                  1ZI % Connected components (based on 8-neighbourhood) of nonzero entries.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix with each connected component labeled with
                                  % values 1, 2, ... respectively
                                  m~ % True if 2 is not present in this matrix. That means there is only
                                  % one connected component; that is, k and j are neighbours in the
                                  % input matrix, or k=j
                                  ] % End
                                  v16e % The stack now has 256 values. Concatenate them into a vector and
                                  % reshape as a 16×16 matrix. This matrix describes neighbourhood: entry
                                  % (k,j) is 1 if values k and j are neighbours in the input or if k=j
                                  XK % Copy into clipboard K
                                  68E % Push 68 times 2, that is, 136, which is 1+2+...+16
                                  16 % Push 16. This is the initial value eaten by the mouse. New values will
                                  % be appended to create a vector of eaten values
                                  b % Bubble up the 16×16 matrix to the top of the stack
                                  " % For each column. This just executes the loop 16 times
                                  K % Push neighbourhood matrix from clipboard K
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  0) % Get last value. This is the most recent eaten value
                                  Y) % Get that row of the neighbourhood matrix
                                  f % Indices of nonzeros. This gives a vector of neighbours of the last
                                  % eaten value
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  X- % Set difference (may give an empty result)
                                  X> % Maximum value. This is the new eaten value (maximum neighbour not
                                  % already eaten). May be empty, if all neighbours are already eaten
                                  h % Concatenate to vector of eaten values
                                  ] % End
                                  s % Sum of vector of all eaten values
                                  - % Subtract from 136. Implicitly display





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                                  • Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                    – Titus
                                    2 hours ago















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                                  MATL, 50 49 47 bytes



                                  16:HZ^!"2G@m1ZIm~]v16eXK68E16b"Ky0)Y)fyX-X>h]s-


                                  Input is a matrix, using ; as row separator.



                                  Try it online! Or verify all test cases.



                                  Explanation



                                  16:HZ^!  % Cartesian power of [1 2 ... 16] with exponent 2, transpose. Gives a 
                                  % 2-row matrix with 1st column [1; 1], 2nd [1; 2], ..., last [16; 16]
                                  " % For each column, say [k; j]
                                  2 % Push 2
                                  G@m % Push input matrix, then current column [k; j], then check membership.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix that contains 1 for entries of the input that
                                  % contain k or j
                                  1ZI % Connected components (based on 8-neighbourhood) of nonzero entries.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix with each connected component labeled with
                                  % values 1, 2, ... respectively
                                  m~ % True if 2 is not present in this matrix. That means there is only
                                  % one connected component; that is, k and j are neighbours in the
                                  % input matrix, or k=j
                                  ] % End
                                  v16e % The stack now has 256 values. Concatenate them into a vector and
                                  % reshape as a 16×16 matrix. This matrix describes neighbourhood: entry
                                  % (k,j) is 1 if values k and j are neighbours in the input or if k=j
                                  XK % Copy into clipboard K
                                  68E % Push 68 times 2, that is, 136, which is 1+2+...+16
                                  16 % Push 16. This is the initial value eaten by the mouse. New values will
                                  % be appended to create a vector of eaten values
                                  b % Bubble up the 16×16 matrix to the top of the stack
                                  " % For each column. This just executes the loop 16 times
                                  K % Push neighbourhood matrix from clipboard K
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  0) % Get last value. This is the most recent eaten value
                                  Y) % Get that row of the neighbourhood matrix
                                  f % Indices of nonzeros. This gives a vector of neighbours of the last
                                  % eaten value
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  X- % Set difference (may give an empty result)
                                  X> % Maximum value. This is the new eaten value (maximum neighbour not
                                  % already eaten). May be empty, if all neighbours are already eaten
                                  h % Concatenate to vector of eaten values
                                  ] % End
                                  s % Sum of vector of all eaten values
                                  - % Subtract from 136. Implicitly display





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                                  • Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                    – Titus
                                    2 hours ago













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                                  MATL, 50 49 47 bytes



                                  16:HZ^!"2G@m1ZIm~]v16eXK68E16b"Ky0)Y)fyX-X>h]s-


                                  Input is a matrix, using ; as row separator.



                                  Try it online! Or verify all test cases.



                                  Explanation



                                  16:HZ^!  % Cartesian power of [1 2 ... 16] with exponent 2, transpose. Gives a 
                                  % 2-row matrix with 1st column [1; 1], 2nd [1; 2], ..., last [16; 16]
                                  " % For each column, say [k; j]
                                  2 % Push 2
                                  G@m % Push input matrix, then current column [k; j], then check membership.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix that contains 1 for entries of the input that
                                  % contain k or j
                                  1ZI % Connected components (based on 8-neighbourhood) of nonzero entries.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix with each connected component labeled with
                                  % values 1, 2, ... respectively
                                  m~ % True if 2 is not present in this matrix. That means there is only
                                  % one connected component; that is, k and j are neighbours in the
                                  % input matrix, or k=j
                                  ] % End
                                  v16e % The stack now has 256 values. Concatenate them into a vector and
                                  % reshape as a 16×16 matrix. This matrix describes neighbourhood: entry
                                  % (k,j) is 1 if values k and j are neighbours in the input or if k=j
                                  XK % Copy into clipboard K
                                  68E % Push 68 times 2, that is, 136, which is 1+2+...+16
                                  16 % Push 16. This is the initial value eaten by the mouse. New values will
                                  % be appended to create a vector of eaten values
                                  b % Bubble up the 16×16 matrix to the top of the stack
                                  " % For each column. This just executes the loop 16 times
                                  K % Push neighbourhood matrix from clipboard K
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  0) % Get last value. This is the most recent eaten value
                                  Y) % Get that row of the neighbourhood matrix
                                  f % Indices of nonzeros. This gives a vector of neighbours of the last
                                  % eaten value
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  X- % Set difference (may give an empty result)
                                  X> % Maximum value. This is the new eaten value (maximum neighbour not
                                  % already eaten). May be empty, if all neighbours are already eaten
                                  h % Concatenate to vector of eaten values
                                  ] % End
                                  s % Sum of vector of all eaten values
                                  - % Subtract from 136. Implicitly display





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                                  MATL, 50 49 47 bytes



                                  16:HZ^!"2G@m1ZIm~]v16eXK68E16b"Ky0)Y)fyX-X>h]s-


                                  Input is a matrix, using ; as row separator.



                                  Try it online! Or verify all test cases.



                                  Explanation



                                  16:HZ^!  % Cartesian power of [1 2 ... 16] with exponent 2, transpose. Gives a 
                                  % 2-row matrix with 1st column [1; 1], 2nd [1; 2], ..., last [16; 16]
                                  " % For each column, say [k; j]
                                  2 % Push 2
                                  G@m % Push input matrix, then current column [k; j], then check membership.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix that contains 1 for entries of the input that
                                  % contain k or j
                                  1ZI % Connected components (based on 8-neighbourhood) of nonzero entries.
                                  % This gives a 4×4 matrix with each connected component labeled with
                                  % values 1, 2, ... respectively
                                  m~ % True if 2 is not present in this matrix. That means there is only
                                  % one connected component; that is, k and j are neighbours in the
                                  % input matrix, or k=j
                                  ] % End
                                  v16e % The stack now has 256 values. Concatenate them into a vector and
                                  % reshape as a 16×16 matrix. This matrix describes neighbourhood: entry
                                  % (k,j) is 1 if values k and j are neighbours in the input or if k=j
                                  XK % Copy into clipboard K
                                  68E % Push 68 times 2, that is, 136, which is 1+2+...+16
                                  16 % Push 16. This is the initial value eaten by the mouse. New values will
                                  % be appended to create a vector of eaten values
                                  b % Bubble up the 16×16 matrix to the top of the stack
                                  " % For each column. This just executes the loop 16 times
                                  K % Push neighbourhood matrix from clipboard K
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  0) % Get last value. This is the most recent eaten value
                                  Y) % Get that row of the neighbourhood matrix
                                  f % Indices of nonzeros. This gives a vector of neighbours of the last
                                  % eaten value
                                  y % Copy from below: pushes a copy of the vector of eaten values
                                  X- % Set difference (may give an empty result)
                                  X> % Maximum value. This is the new eaten value (maximum neighbour not
                                  % already eaten). May be empty, if all neighbours are already eaten
                                  h % Concatenate to vector of eaten values
                                  ] % End
                                  s % Sum of vector of all eaten values
                                  - % Subtract from 136. Implicitly display






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                                  Luis Mendo

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                                  • Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                    – Titus
                                    2 hours ago


















                                  • Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                    – Titus
                                    2 hours ago
















                                  Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                  – Titus
                                  2 hours ago




                                  Idk MatLab, but can you save a little if you push -136 instead of +136?
                                  – Titus
                                  2 hours ago










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                                  Charcoal, 47 bytes



                                  EA⭆ι§αλ≔QθW›θA«≔⌕KAθθJ﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴≔⌈KMθA»≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ⎚Iθ


                                  Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:



                                  EA⭆ι§αλ


                                  Convert the input numbers into alphabetic characters (A=0 .. Q=16) and print them as a 4x4 grid.



                                  ≔Qθ


                                  Start by eating the Q, i.e. 16.



                                  W›θA«


                                  Repeat while there is something to eat.



                                  ≔⌕KAθθ


                                  Find where the pile is. This is a linear view in row-major order.



                                  J﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴


                                  Convert to co-ordinates and jump to that location.



                                  ≔⌈KMθ


                                  Find the largest adjacent pile.






                                  Eat the current pile.



                                  ≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ


                                  Convert the piles back to integers and take the sum.



                                  ⎚Iθ


                                  Clear the canvas and output the result.






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                                    Charcoal, 47 bytes



                                    EA⭆ι§αλ≔QθW›θA«≔⌕KAθθJ﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴≔⌈KMθA»≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ⎚Iθ


                                    Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:



                                    EA⭆ι§αλ


                                    Convert the input numbers into alphabetic characters (A=0 .. Q=16) and print them as a 4x4 grid.



                                    ≔Qθ


                                    Start by eating the Q, i.e. 16.



                                    W›θA«


                                    Repeat while there is something to eat.



                                    ≔⌕KAθθ


                                    Find where the pile is. This is a linear view in row-major order.



                                    J﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴


                                    Convert to co-ordinates and jump to that location.



                                    ≔⌈KMθ


                                    Find the largest adjacent pile.






                                    Eat the current pile.



                                    ≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ


                                    Convert the piles back to integers and take the sum.



                                    ⎚Iθ


                                    Clear the canvas and output the result.






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                                      Charcoal, 47 bytes



                                      EA⭆ι§αλ≔QθW›θA«≔⌕KAθθJ﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴≔⌈KMθA»≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ⎚Iθ


                                      Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:



                                      EA⭆ι§αλ


                                      Convert the input numbers into alphabetic characters (A=0 .. Q=16) and print them as a 4x4 grid.



                                      ≔Qθ


                                      Start by eating the Q, i.e. 16.



                                      W›θA«


                                      Repeat while there is something to eat.



                                      ≔⌕KAθθ


                                      Find where the pile is. This is a linear view in row-major order.



                                      J﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴


                                      Convert to co-ordinates and jump to that location.



                                      ≔⌈KMθ


                                      Find the largest adjacent pile.






                                      Eat the current pile.



                                      ≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ


                                      Convert the piles back to integers and take the sum.



                                      ⎚Iθ


                                      Clear the canvas and output the result.






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                                      Charcoal, 47 bytes



                                      EA⭆ι§αλ≔QθW›θA«≔⌕KAθθJ﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴≔⌈KMθA»≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ⎚Iθ


                                      Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation:



                                      EA⭆ι§αλ


                                      Convert the input numbers into alphabetic characters (A=0 .. Q=16) and print them as a 4x4 grid.



                                      ≔Qθ


                                      Start by eating the Q, i.e. 16.



                                      W›θA«


                                      Repeat while there is something to eat.



                                      ≔⌕KAθθ


                                      Find where the pile is. This is a linear view in row-major order.



                                      J﹪θ⁴÷θ⁴


                                      Convert to co-ordinates and jump to that location.



                                      ≔⌈KMθ


                                      Find the largest adjacent pile.






                                      Eat the current pile.



                                      ≔ΣEKA⌕αιθ


                                      Convert the piles back to integers and take the sum.



                                      ⎚Iθ


                                      Clear the canvas and output the result.







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                                      answered 17 hours ago









                                      Neil

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                                          JavaScript, 122 bytes



                                          I took more than a couple of wrong turns on this one and now I've run out of time for further golfing but at least it's working. Will revisit tomorrow (or, knowing me, on the train home this evening!), if I can find a minute.



                                          a=>(g=n=>n?g([-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6].map(x=>n=a[x+=i]>n?a[x]:n,a[i=a.indexOf(n)]=n=0)|n)-n:120)(16,a=a.flatMap(x=>[...x,0]))


                                          Try it online






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                                            +1 for flatMap() :p
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                            – Shaggy
                                            10 hours ago






                                          • 1




                                            I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            8 hours ago












                                          • Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            6 hours ago















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                                          2
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                                          JavaScript, 122 bytes



                                          I took more than a couple of wrong turns on this one and now I've run out of time for further golfing but at least it's working. Will revisit tomorrow (or, knowing me, on the train home this evening!), if I can find a minute.



                                          a=>(g=n=>n?g([-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6].map(x=>n=a[x+=i]>n?a[x]:n,a[i=a.indexOf(n)]=n=0)|n)-n:120)(16,a=a.flatMap(x=>[...x,0]))


                                          Try it online






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                                            +1 for flatMap() :p
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                            – Shaggy
                                            10 hours ago






                                          • 1




                                            I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            8 hours ago












                                          • Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            6 hours ago













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                                          2
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                                          up vote
                                          2
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                                          JavaScript, 122 bytes



                                          I took more than a couple of wrong turns on this one and now I've run out of time for further golfing but at least it's working. Will revisit tomorrow (or, knowing me, on the train home this evening!), if I can find a minute.



                                          a=>(g=n=>n?g([-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6].map(x=>n=a[x+=i]>n?a[x]:n,a[i=a.indexOf(n)]=n=0)|n)-n:120)(16,a=a.flatMap(x=>[...x,0]))


                                          Try it online






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                                          JavaScript, 122 bytes



                                          I took more than a couple of wrong turns on this one and now I've run out of time for further golfing but at least it's working. Will revisit tomorrow (or, knowing me, on the train home this evening!), if I can find a minute.



                                          a=>(g=n=>n?g([-6,-5,-4,-1,1,4,5,6].map(x=>n=a[x+=i]>n?a[x]:n,a[i=a.indexOf(n)]=n=0)|n)-n:120)(16,a=a.flatMap(x=>[...x,0]))


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                                          answered 10 hours ago









                                          Shaggy

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                                          • 1




                                            +1 for flatMap() :p
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                            – Shaggy
                                            10 hours ago






                                          • 1




                                            I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            8 hours ago












                                          • Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            6 hours ago














                                          • 1




                                            +1 for flatMap() :p
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                            – Shaggy
                                            10 hours ago






                                          • 1




                                            I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            10 hours ago










                                          • Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            8 hours ago












                                          • Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                            – Arnauld
                                            6 hours ago








                                          1




                                          1




                                          +1 for flatMap() :p
                                          – Arnauld
                                          10 hours ago




                                          +1 for flatMap() :p
                                          – Arnauld
                                          10 hours ago












                                          :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                          – Shaggy
                                          10 hours ago




                                          :D I think this is the first time I've used it for golf! Out of interest (and to give me a target when I come back to this), what was your score when you tried it?
                                          – Shaggy
                                          10 hours ago




                                          1




                                          1




                                          I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          10 hours ago




                                          I didn't try to golf it. Unless I have a specific trick in mind, I usually just write clean code to test my challenges.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          10 hours ago












                                          Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          8 hours ago






                                          Ok, you've convinced me to try. :) I'm currently at <s>116</s> 114.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          8 hours ago














                                          Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          6 hours ago




                                          Finally reached 103 bytes.
                                          – Arnauld
                                          6 hours ago










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                                          SAS, 236 219 bytes



                                          Input on punch cards, one line per grid (space-separated), output printed to the log.



                                          This challenge is slightly complicated by the fact that SAS has no way to return the row and column indexes of a matching element from multidimensional data-step array - you have to treat the array as 1-d and then work them out for yourself.



                                          data;input a1-a16;array a[4,4]a:;p=16;t=136;do while(p);m=whichn(p,of a:);t=t-p;j=mod(m-1,4)+1;i=ceil(m/4);a[i,j]=0;p=0;do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);p=max(p,a[k,l]);end;end;end;put t;cards;
                                          <insert punch cards here>
                                          ;


                                          Updates:




                                          • Removed infile cards; statement (-13)

                                          • Used wildcard a: for array definition rather than a1-a16 (-4)


                                          Ungolfed version:



                                          data;                /*Produce a dataset using automatic naming*/
                                          input a1-a16; /*Read 16 variables*/
                                          array a[4,4] a:; /*Assign to a 4x4 array*/
                                          p=16; /*Initial pile to look for*/
                                          t=136; /*Total cheese to decrement*/
                                          do while(p); /*Stop if there are no piles available with size > 0*/
                                          m=whichn(p,of a:); /*Find array element containing current pile size*/
                                          t=t-p; /*Decrement total cheese*/
                                          j=mod(m-1,4)+1; /*Get column number*/
                                          i=ceil(m/4); /*Get row number*/
                                          a[i,j]=0; /*Eat the current pile*/
                                          /*Find the size of the largest adjacent pile*/
                                          p=0;
                                          do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);
                                          do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);
                                          p=max(p,a[k,l]);
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          put t; /*Print total remaining cheese to log*/
                                          /*Start of punch card input*/
                                          cards;
                                          4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 12 11 10 9 13 14 15 16
                                          8 1 9 14 11 6 5 16 13 15 2 7 10 3 12 4
                                          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                                          10 15 14 11 9 3 1 7 13 5 12 6 2 8 4 16
                                          3 7 10 5 6 8 12 13 15 9 11 4 14 1 16 2
                                          8 9 3 6 13 11 7 15 12 10 16 2 4 14 1 5
                                          8 11 12 9 14 5 10 16 7 3 1 6 13 4 2 15
                                          13 14 1 2 16 15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 4 13 7 8 5 14 3 16 6 15
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 7 13 6 16 4 14 3 8 5 15
                                          ; /*End of punch card input*/
                                          /*Implicit run;*/





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                                          • +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                            – GNiklasch
                                            9 hours ago















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                                          SAS, 236 219 bytes



                                          Input on punch cards, one line per grid (space-separated), output printed to the log.



                                          This challenge is slightly complicated by the fact that SAS has no way to return the row and column indexes of a matching element from multidimensional data-step array - you have to treat the array as 1-d and then work them out for yourself.



                                          data;input a1-a16;array a[4,4]a:;p=16;t=136;do while(p);m=whichn(p,of a:);t=t-p;j=mod(m-1,4)+1;i=ceil(m/4);a[i,j]=0;p=0;do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);p=max(p,a[k,l]);end;end;end;put t;cards;
                                          <insert punch cards here>
                                          ;


                                          Updates:




                                          • Removed infile cards; statement (-13)

                                          • Used wildcard a: for array definition rather than a1-a16 (-4)


                                          Ungolfed version:



                                          data;                /*Produce a dataset using automatic naming*/
                                          input a1-a16; /*Read 16 variables*/
                                          array a[4,4] a:; /*Assign to a 4x4 array*/
                                          p=16; /*Initial pile to look for*/
                                          t=136; /*Total cheese to decrement*/
                                          do while(p); /*Stop if there are no piles available with size > 0*/
                                          m=whichn(p,of a:); /*Find array element containing current pile size*/
                                          t=t-p; /*Decrement total cheese*/
                                          j=mod(m-1,4)+1; /*Get column number*/
                                          i=ceil(m/4); /*Get row number*/
                                          a[i,j]=0; /*Eat the current pile*/
                                          /*Find the size of the largest adjacent pile*/
                                          p=0;
                                          do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);
                                          do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);
                                          p=max(p,a[k,l]);
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          put t; /*Print total remaining cheese to log*/
                                          /*Start of punch card input*/
                                          cards;
                                          4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 12 11 10 9 13 14 15 16
                                          8 1 9 14 11 6 5 16 13 15 2 7 10 3 12 4
                                          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                                          10 15 14 11 9 3 1 7 13 5 12 6 2 8 4 16
                                          3 7 10 5 6 8 12 13 15 9 11 4 14 1 16 2
                                          8 9 3 6 13 11 7 15 12 10 16 2 4 14 1 5
                                          8 11 12 9 14 5 10 16 7 3 1 6 13 4 2 15
                                          13 14 1 2 16 15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 4 13 7 8 5 14 3 16 6 15
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 7 13 6 16 4 14 3 8 5 15
                                          ; /*End of punch card input*/
                                          /*Implicit run;*/





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                                          • +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                            – GNiklasch
                                            9 hours ago













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                                          up vote
                                          2
                                          down vote









                                          SAS, 236 219 bytes



                                          Input on punch cards, one line per grid (space-separated), output printed to the log.



                                          This challenge is slightly complicated by the fact that SAS has no way to return the row and column indexes of a matching element from multidimensional data-step array - you have to treat the array as 1-d and then work them out for yourself.



                                          data;input a1-a16;array a[4,4]a:;p=16;t=136;do while(p);m=whichn(p,of a:);t=t-p;j=mod(m-1,4)+1;i=ceil(m/4);a[i,j]=0;p=0;do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);p=max(p,a[k,l]);end;end;end;put t;cards;
                                          <insert punch cards here>
                                          ;


                                          Updates:




                                          • Removed infile cards; statement (-13)

                                          • Used wildcard a: for array definition rather than a1-a16 (-4)


                                          Ungolfed version:



                                          data;                /*Produce a dataset using automatic naming*/
                                          input a1-a16; /*Read 16 variables*/
                                          array a[4,4] a:; /*Assign to a 4x4 array*/
                                          p=16; /*Initial pile to look for*/
                                          t=136; /*Total cheese to decrement*/
                                          do while(p); /*Stop if there are no piles available with size > 0*/
                                          m=whichn(p,of a:); /*Find array element containing current pile size*/
                                          t=t-p; /*Decrement total cheese*/
                                          j=mod(m-1,4)+1; /*Get column number*/
                                          i=ceil(m/4); /*Get row number*/
                                          a[i,j]=0; /*Eat the current pile*/
                                          /*Find the size of the largest adjacent pile*/
                                          p=0;
                                          do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);
                                          do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);
                                          p=max(p,a[k,l]);
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          put t; /*Print total remaining cheese to log*/
                                          /*Start of punch card input*/
                                          cards;
                                          4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 12 11 10 9 13 14 15 16
                                          8 1 9 14 11 6 5 16 13 15 2 7 10 3 12 4
                                          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                                          10 15 14 11 9 3 1 7 13 5 12 6 2 8 4 16
                                          3 7 10 5 6 8 12 13 15 9 11 4 14 1 16 2
                                          8 9 3 6 13 11 7 15 12 10 16 2 4 14 1 5
                                          8 11 12 9 14 5 10 16 7 3 1 6 13 4 2 15
                                          13 14 1 2 16 15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 4 13 7 8 5 14 3 16 6 15
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 7 13 6 16 4 14 3 8 5 15
                                          ; /*End of punch card input*/
                                          /*Implicit run;*/





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                                          SAS, 236 219 bytes



                                          Input on punch cards, one line per grid (space-separated), output printed to the log.



                                          This challenge is slightly complicated by the fact that SAS has no way to return the row and column indexes of a matching element from multidimensional data-step array - you have to treat the array as 1-d and then work them out for yourself.



                                          data;input a1-a16;array a[4,4]a:;p=16;t=136;do while(p);m=whichn(p,of a:);t=t-p;j=mod(m-1,4)+1;i=ceil(m/4);a[i,j]=0;p=0;do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);p=max(p,a[k,l]);end;end;end;put t;cards;
                                          <insert punch cards here>
                                          ;


                                          Updates:




                                          • Removed infile cards; statement (-13)

                                          • Used wildcard a: for array definition rather than a1-a16 (-4)


                                          Ungolfed version:



                                          data;                /*Produce a dataset using automatic naming*/
                                          input a1-a16; /*Read 16 variables*/
                                          array a[4,4] a:; /*Assign to a 4x4 array*/
                                          p=16; /*Initial pile to look for*/
                                          t=136; /*Total cheese to decrement*/
                                          do while(p); /*Stop if there are no piles available with size > 0*/
                                          m=whichn(p,of a:); /*Find array element containing current pile size*/
                                          t=t-p; /*Decrement total cheese*/
                                          j=mod(m-1,4)+1; /*Get column number*/
                                          i=ceil(m/4); /*Get row number*/
                                          a[i,j]=0; /*Eat the current pile*/
                                          /*Find the size of the largest adjacent pile*/
                                          p=0;
                                          do k=max(1,i-1)to min(i+1,4);
                                          do l=max(1,j-1)to min(j+1,4);
                                          p=max(p,a[k,l]);
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          end;
                                          put t; /*Print total remaining cheese to log*/
                                          /*Start of punch card input*/
                                          cards;
                                          4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 12 11 10 9 13 14 15 16
                                          8 1 9 14 11 6 5 16 13 15 2 7 10 3 12 4
                                          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
                                          10 15 14 11 9 3 1 7 13 5 12 6 2 8 4 16
                                          3 7 10 5 6 8 12 13 15 9 11 4 14 1 16 2
                                          8 9 3 6 13 11 7 15 12 10 16 2 4 14 1 5
                                          8 11 12 9 14 5 10 16 7 3 1 6 13 4 2 15
                                          13 14 1 2 16 15 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 4 13 7 8 5 14 3 16 6 15
                                          9 10 11 12 1 2 7 13 6 16 4 14 3 8 5 15
                                          ; /*End of punch card input*/
                                          /*Implicit run;*/






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                                          edited 9 hours ago

























                                          answered 11 hours ago









                                          user3490

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                                          • +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                            – GNiklasch
                                            9 hours ago


















                                          • +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                            – GNiklasch
                                            9 hours ago
















                                          +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                          – GNiklasch
                                          9 hours ago




                                          +1 for use of punch cards in PPCG :)
                                          – GNiklasch
                                          9 hours ago










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                                          J, 82 bytes



                                          g=.](]*{:@[~:])]_1}~[:>./]{~((,-)1 5 6 7)+]i.{:
                                          [:+/[:(g^:_)16,~[:,0,~0,0,0,.~0,.]


                                          Try it online!



                                          I plan to golf this more tomorrow, and perhaps write a more J-ish solution similar to this one, but I figured I'd try the flattened approach since I hadn't done that before.






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                                          • Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                            – Galen Ivanov
                                            20 hours ago










                                          • Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                            – Jonah
                                            2 hours ago















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                                          J, 82 bytes



                                          g=.](]*{:@[~:])]_1}~[:>./]{~((,-)1 5 6 7)+]i.{:
                                          [:+/[:(g^:_)16,~[:,0,~0,0,0,.~0,.]


                                          Try it online!



                                          I plan to golf this more tomorrow, and perhaps write a more J-ish solution similar to this one, but I figured I'd try the flattened approach since I hadn't done that before.






                                          share|improve this answer























                                          • Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                            – Galen Ivanov
                                            20 hours ago










                                          • Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                            – Jonah
                                            2 hours ago













                                          up vote
                                          1
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                                          1
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                                          J, 82 bytes



                                          g=.](]*{:@[~:])]_1}~[:>./]{~((,-)1 5 6 7)+]i.{:
                                          [:+/[:(g^:_)16,~[:,0,~0,0,0,.~0,.]


                                          Try it online!



                                          I plan to golf this more tomorrow, and perhaps write a more J-ish solution similar to this one, but I figured I'd try the flattened approach since I hadn't done that before.






                                          share|improve this answer














                                          J, 82 bytes



                                          g=.](]*{:@[~:])]_1}~[:>./]{~((,-)1 5 6 7)+]i.{:
                                          [:+/[:(g^:_)16,~[:,0,~0,0,0,.~0,.]


                                          Try it online!



                                          I plan to golf this more tomorrow, and perhaps write a more J-ish solution similar to this one, but I figured I'd try the flattened approach since I hadn't done that before.







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                                          edited 20 hours ago

























                                          answered 21 hours ago









                                          Jonah

                                          1,951816




                                          1,951816












                                          • Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                            – Galen Ivanov
                                            20 hours ago










                                          • Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                            – Jonah
                                            2 hours ago


















                                          • Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                            – Galen Ivanov
                                            20 hours ago










                                          • Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                            – Jonah
                                            2 hours ago
















                                          Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                          – Galen Ivanov
                                          20 hours ago




                                          Do you really need the leftmost ] in g?
                                          – Galen Ivanov
                                          20 hours ago












                                          Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                          – Jonah
                                          2 hours ago




                                          Thanks Galen, you're right. It's the least of the issues with this code :) I have a much better solution which I'll implement when I have time.
                                          – Jonah
                                          2 hours ago










                                          up vote
                                          1
                                          down vote














                                          Red, 277 bytes



                                          func[a][k: 16 until[t:(index? find load form a k)- 1
                                          p: do rejoin[t / 4 + 1"x"t % 4 + 1]a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                          m: 0 foreach d[-1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1][j: p + d
                                          if all[j/1 > 0 j/1 < 5 j/2 > 0 j/2 < 5 m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)][m: t]]0 = k: m]s: 0
                                          foreach n load form a[s: s + n]s]


                                          Try it online!



                                          It's really long solution and I'm not happy with it, but I spent so much time fixing it to work in TIO (apparently there are many differences between the Win and Linux stable versions of Red), so I post it anyway...



                                          More readable:



                                          f: func [ a ] [
                                          k: 16
                                          until [
                                          t: (index? find load form a n) - 1
                                          p: do rejoin [ t / 4 + 1 "x" t % 4 + 1 ]
                                          a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                          m: 0
                                          foreach d [ -1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1 ] [
                                          j: p + d
                                          if all[ j/1 > 0
                                          j/1 < 5
                                          j/2 > 0
                                          j/2 < 5
                                          m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)
                                          ] [ m: t ]
                                          ]
                                          0 = k: m
                                          ]
                                          s: 0
                                          foreach n load form a [ s: s + n ]
                                          s
                                          ]





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                                            Red, 277 bytes



                                            func[a][k: 16 until[t:(index? find load form a k)- 1
                                            p: do rejoin[t / 4 + 1"x"t % 4 + 1]a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                            m: 0 foreach d[-1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1][j: p + d
                                            if all[j/1 > 0 j/1 < 5 j/2 > 0 j/2 < 5 m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)][m: t]]0 = k: m]s: 0
                                            foreach n load form a[s: s + n]s]


                                            Try it online!



                                            It's really long solution and I'm not happy with it, but I spent so much time fixing it to work in TIO (apparently there are many differences between the Win and Linux stable versions of Red), so I post it anyway...



                                            More readable:



                                            f: func [ a ] [
                                            k: 16
                                            until [
                                            t: (index? find load form a n) - 1
                                            p: do rejoin [ t / 4 + 1 "x" t % 4 + 1 ]
                                            a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                            m: 0
                                            foreach d [ -1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1 ] [
                                            j: p + d
                                            if all[ j/1 > 0
                                            j/1 < 5
                                            j/2 > 0
                                            j/2 < 5
                                            m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)
                                            ] [ m: t ]
                                            ]
                                            0 = k: m
                                            ]
                                            s: 0
                                            foreach n load form a [ s: s + n ]
                                            s
                                            ]





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                                              Red, 277 bytes



                                              func[a][k: 16 until[t:(index? find load form a k)- 1
                                              p: do rejoin[t / 4 + 1"x"t % 4 + 1]a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                              m: 0 foreach d[-1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1][j: p + d
                                              if all[j/1 > 0 j/1 < 5 j/2 > 0 j/2 < 5 m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)][m: t]]0 = k: m]s: 0
                                              foreach n load form a[s: s + n]s]


                                              Try it online!



                                              It's really long solution and I'm not happy with it, but I spent so much time fixing it to work in TIO (apparently there are many differences between the Win and Linux stable versions of Red), so I post it anyway...



                                              More readable:



                                              f: func [ a ] [
                                              k: 16
                                              until [
                                              t: (index? find load form a n) - 1
                                              p: do rejoin [ t / 4 + 1 "x" t % 4 + 1 ]
                                              a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                              m: 0
                                              foreach d [ -1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1 ] [
                                              j: p + d
                                              if all[ j/1 > 0
                                              j/1 < 5
                                              j/2 > 0
                                              j/2 < 5
                                              m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)
                                              ] [ m: t ]
                                              ]
                                              0 = k: m
                                              ]
                                              s: 0
                                              foreach n load form a [ s: s + n ]
                                              s
                                              ]





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                                              Red, 277 bytes



                                              func[a][k: 16 until[t:(index? find load form a k)- 1
                                              p: do rejoin[t / 4 + 1"x"t % 4 + 1]a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                              m: 0 foreach d[-1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1][j: p + d
                                              if all[j/1 > 0 j/1 < 5 j/2 > 0 j/2 < 5 m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)][m: t]]0 = k: m]s: 0
                                              foreach n load form a[s: s + n]s]


                                              Try it online!



                                              It's really long solution and I'm not happy with it, but I spent so much time fixing it to work in TIO (apparently there are many differences between the Win and Linux stable versions of Red), so I post it anyway...



                                              More readable:



                                              f: func [ a ] [
                                              k: 16
                                              until [
                                              t: (index? find load form a n) - 1
                                              p: do rejoin [ t / 4 + 1 "x" t % 4 + 1 ]
                                              a/(p/1)/(p/2): 0
                                              m: 0
                                              foreach d [ -1 0x-1 1x-1 -1x0 1x0 -1x1 0x1 1 ] [
                                              j: p + d
                                              if all[ j/1 > 0
                                              j/1 < 5
                                              j/2 > 0
                                              j/2 < 5
                                              m < t: a/(j/1)/(j/2)
                                              ] [ m: t ]
                                              ]
                                              0 = k: m
                                              ]
                                              s: 0
                                              foreach n load form a [ s: s + n ]
                                              s
                                              ]






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                                              Galen Ivanov

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                                                  Java 10, 272 bytes





                                                  m->{int r=0,c=0,R=4,C,M=1,x,y,X=0,Y=0;for(;R-->0;)for(C=4;C-->0;)if(m[R][C]>15)m[r=R][c=C]=0;for(;M!=0;m[r=X][c=Y]=0)for(M=-1,C=9;C-->0;)try{if((R=m[x=C<3?r-1:C>5?r+1:r][y=C%3<1?c-1:C%3>1?c+1:c])>M){M=R;X=x;Y=y;}}catch(Exception e){}for(var Z:m)for(int z:Z)M+=z;return M;}


                                                  The cells are checked the same as in my answer for the All the single eights challenge.



                                                  Try it online.



                                                  Explanation:



                                                  m->{                       // Method with integer-matrix parameter and integer return-type
                                                  int r=0, // Row-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                  c=0, // Column-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                  R=4,C, // Row and column indices (later reused as temp integers)
                                                  M=1, // Largest number the mouse just ate, starting at 1
                                                  x,y,X=0,Y=0; // Temp integers
                                                  for(;R-->0;) // Loop `R` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                  for(C=4;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                  if(m[R][C]>15) // If the current cell is 16:
                                                  m[r=R][c=C] // Set `r,c` to this coordinate
                                                  =0; // And empty this cell
                                                  for(;M!=0; // Loop as long as the largest number isn't 0:
                                                  ; // After every iteration:
                                                  m[r=X][c=Y] // Change the `r,c` coordinates,
                                                  =0) // And empty this cell
                                                  for(M=-1, // Reset `M` to -1
                                                  C=9;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (9, 0]:
                                                  try{if((R= // Set `R` to:
                                                  m[x=C<3? // If `C` is 0, 1, or 2:
                                                  r-1 // Look at the previous row
                                                  :C>5? // Else-if `C` is 6, 7, or 8:
                                                  r+1 // Look at the next row
                                                  : // Else (`C` is 3, 4, or 5):
                                                  r] // Look at the current row
                                                  [y=C%3<1? // If `C` is 0, 3, or 6:
                                                  c-1 // Look at the previous column
                                                  :C%3>1? // Else-if `C` is 2, 5, or 8:
                                                  c+1 // Look at the next column
                                                  : // Else (`C` is 1, 4, or 7):
                                                  c]) // Look at the current column
                                                  >M){ // And if the number in this cell is larger than `M`
                                                  M=R; // Change `M` to this number
                                                  X=x;Y=y;} // And change the `X,Y` coordinate to this cell
                                                  }catch(Exception e){}
                                                  // Catch and ignore ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions
                                                  // (try-catch saves bytes in comparison to if-checks)
                                                  for(var Z:m) // Then loop over all rows of the matrix:
                                                  for(int z:Z) // Inner loop over all columns of the matrix:
                                                  M+=z; // And sum them all together in `M` (which was 0)
                                                  return M;} // Then return this sum as result





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                                                    m->{int r=0,c=0,R=4,C,M=1,x,y,X=0,Y=0;for(;R-->0;)for(C=4;C-->0;)if(m[R][C]>15)m[r=R][c=C]=0;for(;M!=0;m[r=X][c=Y]=0)for(M=-1,C=9;C-->0;)try{if((R=m[x=C<3?r-1:C>5?r+1:r][y=C%3<1?c-1:C%3>1?c+1:c])>M){M=R;X=x;Y=y;}}catch(Exception e){}for(var Z:m)for(int z:Z)M+=z;return M;}


                                                    The cells are checked the same as in my answer for the All the single eights challenge.



                                                    Try it online.



                                                    Explanation:



                                                    m->{                       // Method with integer-matrix parameter and integer return-type
                                                    int r=0, // Row-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                    c=0, // Column-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                    R=4,C, // Row and column indices (later reused as temp integers)
                                                    M=1, // Largest number the mouse just ate, starting at 1
                                                    x,y,X=0,Y=0; // Temp integers
                                                    for(;R-->0;) // Loop `R` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                    for(C=4;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                    if(m[R][C]>15) // If the current cell is 16:
                                                    m[r=R][c=C] // Set `r,c` to this coordinate
                                                    =0; // And empty this cell
                                                    for(;M!=0; // Loop as long as the largest number isn't 0:
                                                    ; // After every iteration:
                                                    m[r=X][c=Y] // Change the `r,c` coordinates,
                                                    =0) // And empty this cell
                                                    for(M=-1, // Reset `M` to -1
                                                    C=9;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (9, 0]:
                                                    try{if((R= // Set `R` to:
                                                    m[x=C<3? // If `C` is 0, 1, or 2:
                                                    r-1 // Look at the previous row
                                                    :C>5? // Else-if `C` is 6, 7, or 8:
                                                    r+1 // Look at the next row
                                                    : // Else (`C` is 3, 4, or 5):
                                                    r] // Look at the current row
                                                    [y=C%3<1? // If `C` is 0, 3, or 6:
                                                    c-1 // Look at the previous column
                                                    :C%3>1? // Else-if `C` is 2, 5, or 8:
                                                    c+1 // Look at the next column
                                                    : // Else (`C` is 1, 4, or 7):
                                                    c]) // Look at the current column
                                                    >M){ // And if the number in this cell is larger than `M`
                                                    M=R; // Change `M` to this number
                                                    X=x;Y=y;} // And change the `X,Y` coordinate to this cell
                                                    }catch(Exception e){}
                                                    // Catch and ignore ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions
                                                    // (try-catch saves bytes in comparison to if-checks)
                                                    for(var Z:m) // Then loop over all rows of the matrix:
                                                    for(int z:Z) // Inner loop over all columns of the matrix:
                                                    M+=z; // And sum them all together in `M` (which was 0)
                                                    return M;} // Then return this sum as result





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                                                      m->{int r=0,c=0,R=4,C,M=1,x,y,X=0,Y=0;for(;R-->0;)for(C=4;C-->0;)if(m[R][C]>15)m[r=R][c=C]=0;for(;M!=0;m[r=X][c=Y]=0)for(M=-1,C=9;C-->0;)try{if((R=m[x=C<3?r-1:C>5?r+1:r][y=C%3<1?c-1:C%3>1?c+1:c])>M){M=R;X=x;Y=y;}}catch(Exception e){}for(var Z:m)for(int z:Z)M+=z;return M;}


                                                      The cells are checked the same as in my answer for the All the single eights challenge.



                                                      Try it online.



                                                      Explanation:



                                                      m->{                       // Method with integer-matrix parameter and integer return-type
                                                      int r=0, // Row-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                      c=0, // Column-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                      R=4,C, // Row and column indices (later reused as temp integers)
                                                      M=1, // Largest number the mouse just ate, starting at 1
                                                      x,y,X=0,Y=0; // Temp integers
                                                      for(;R-->0;) // Loop `R` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                      for(C=4;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                      if(m[R][C]>15) // If the current cell is 16:
                                                      m[r=R][c=C] // Set `r,c` to this coordinate
                                                      =0; // And empty this cell
                                                      for(;M!=0; // Loop as long as the largest number isn't 0:
                                                      ; // After every iteration:
                                                      m[r=X][c=Y] // Change the `r,c` coordinates,
                                                      =0) // And empty this cell
                                                      for(M=-1, // Reset `M` to -1
                                                      C=9;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (9, 0]:
                                                      try{if((R= // Set `R` to:
                                                      m[x=C<3? // If `C` is 0, 1, or 2:
                                                      r-1 // Look at the previous row
                                                      :C>5? // Else-if `C` is 6, 7, or 8:
                                                      r+1 // Look at the next row
                                                      : // Else (`C` is 3, 4, or 5):
                                                      r] // Look at the current row
                                                      [y=C%3<1? // If `C` is 0, 3, or 6:
                                                      c-1 // Look at the previous column
                                                      :C%3>1? // Else-if `C` is 2, 5, or 8:
                                                      c+1 // Look at the next column
                                                      : // Else (`C` is 1, 4, or 7):
                                                      c]) // Look at the current column
                                                      >M){ // And if the number in this cell is larger than `M`
                                                      M=R; // Change `M` to this number
                                                      X=x;Y=y;} // And change the `X,Y` coordinate to this cell
                                                      }catch(Exception e){}
                                                      // Catch and ignore ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions
                                                      // (try-catch saves bytes in comparison to if-checks)
                                                      for(var Z:m) // Then loop over all rows of the matrix:
                                                      for(int z:Z) // Inner loop over all columns of the matrix:
                                                      M+=z; // And sum them all together in `M` (which was 0)
                                                      return M;} // Then return this sum as result





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                                                      Java 10, 272 bytes





                                                      m->{int r=0,c=0,R=4,C,M=1,x,y,X=0,Y=0;for(;R-->0;)for(C=4;C-->0;)if(m[R][C]>15)m[r=R][c=C]=0;for(;M!=0;m[r=X][c=Y]=0)for(M=-1,C=9;C-->0;)try{if((R=m[x=C<3?r-1:C>5?r+1:r][y=C%3<1?c-1:C%3>1?c+1:c])>M){M=R;X=x;Y=y;}}catch(Exception e){}for(var Z:m)for(int z:Z)M+=z;return M;}


                                                      The cells are checked the same as in my answer for the All the single eights challenge.



                                                      Try it online.



                                                      Explanation:



                                                      m->{                       // Method with integer-matrix parameter and integer return-type
                                                      int r=0, // Row-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                      c=0, // Column-coordinate for the largest number, starting at 0
                                                      R=4,C, // Row and column indices (later reused as temp integers)
                                                      M=1, // Largest number the mouse just ate, starting at 1
                                                      x,y,X=0,Y=0; // Temp integers
                                                      for(;R-->0;) // Loop `R` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                      for(C=4;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (4, 0]:
                                                      if(m[R][C]>15) // If the current cell is 16:
                                                      m[r=R][c=C] // Set `r,c` to this coordinate
                                                      =0; // And empty this cell
                                                      for(;M!=0; // Loop as long as the largest number isn't 0:
                                                      ; // After every iteration:
                                                      m[r=X][c=Y] // Change the `r,c` coordinates,
                                                      =0) // And empty this cell
                                                      for(M=-1, // Reset `M` to -1
                                                      C=9;C-->0;) // Inner loop `C` in the range (9, 0]:
                                                      try{if((R= // Set `R` to:
                                                      m[x=C<3? // If `C` is 0, 1, or 2:
                                                      r-1 // Look at the previous row
                                                      :C>5? // Else-if `C` is 6, 7, or 8:
                                                      r+1 // Look at the next row
                                                      : // Else (`C` is 3, 4, or 5):
                                                      r] // Look at the current row
                                                      [y=C%3<1? // If `C` is 0, 3, or 6:
                                                      c-1 // Look at the previous column
                                                      :C%3>1? // Else-if `C` is 2, 5, or 8:
                                                      c+1 // Look at the next column
                                                      : // Else (`C` is 1, 4, or 7):
                                                      c]) // Look at the current column
                                                      >M){ // And if the number in this cell is larger than `M`
                                                      M=R; // Change `M` to this number
                                                      X=x;Y=y;} // And change the `X,Y` coordinate to this cell
                                                      }catch(Exception e){}
                                                      // Catch and ignore ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions
                                                      // (try-catch saves bytes in comparison to if-checks)
                                                      for(var Z:m) // Then loop over all rows of the matrix:
                                                      for(int z:Z) // Inner loop over all columns of the matrix:
                                                      M+=z; // And sum them all together in `M` (which was 0)
                                                      return M;} // Then return this sum as result






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                                                          Jelly,  31 30  29 bytes



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ
                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ
                                                          FḟÇS


                                                          Since the method is far too slow to run within 60s with the mouse starting on 16 this starts her off at 9 and limits her ability such that she is only able to eat 9s or less Try it online! (thus here she eats 9, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6, 3 leaving 97).



                                                          How?



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ - Link 1, isSatisfactory?: list of integers, possiblePileChoice
                                                          ³ - (using a left argument of) program's 3rd command line argument (M)
                                                          Ɱ - map across (possiblePileChoice) with:
                                                          œi - first multi-dimensional index of (the item) in (M)
                                                          Z - transpose the resulting list of [row, column] values
                                                          I - get the incremental differences
                                                          Ị - insignificant? (vectorises an abs(v) <= 1 test)
                                                          Ȧ - any and all? (0 if any 0s are present in the flattened result [or if it's empty])

                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ - Link 2, getChosenPileList: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          ⁴ - literal 16
                                                          Ṗ - pop -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
                                                          ŒP - power-set -> [,[1],[2],...,[1,2],[1,3],...,[2,3,7],...,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]]
                                                          € - for each:
                                                          Œ! - all permutations
                                                          Ẏ - tighten (to a single list of all these individual permutations)
                                                          ⁴ - (using a left argument of) literal 16
                                                          Ɱ - map across it with:
                                                          ; - concatenate (put a 16 at the beginning of each one)
                                                          Ṣ - sort the resulting list of lists
                                                          Ƈ - filter keep those for which this is truthy:
                                                          Ç - call last Link as a monad (i.e. isSatisfactory(possiblePileChoice)
                                                          Ṫ - tail (get the right-most, i.e. the maximal satisfactory one)

                                                          FḟÇS - Main Link: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          F - flatten M
                                                          Ç - call last Link (2) as a monad (i.e. get getChosenPileList(M))
                                                          ḟ - filter discard (the resulting values) from (the flattened M)
                                                          S - sum





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                                                          • Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            yesterday






                                                          • 1




                                                            @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            10 hours ago















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                                                          Jelly,  31 30  29 bytes



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ
                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ
                                                          FḟÇS


                                                          Since the method is far too slow to run within 60s with the mouse starting on 16 this starts her off at 9 and limits her ability such that she is only able to eat 9s or less Try it online! (thus here she eats 9, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6, 3 leaving 97).



                                                          How?



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ - Link 1, isSatisfactory?: list of integers, possiblePileChoice
                                                          ³ - (using a left argument of) program's 3rd command line argument (M)
                                                          Ɱ - map across (possiblePileChoice) with:
                                                          œi - first multi-dimensional index of (the item) in (M)
                                                          Z - transpose the resulting list of [row, column] values
                                                          I - get the incremental differences
                                                          Ị - insignificant? (vectorises an abs(v) <= 1 test)
                                                          Ȧ - any and all? (0 if any 0s are present in the flattened result [or if it's empty])

                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ - Link 2, getChosenPileList: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          ⁴ - literal 16
                                                          Ṗ - pop -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
                                                          ŒP - power-set -> [,[1],[2],...,[1,2],[1,3],...,[2,3,7],...,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]]
                                                          € - for each:
                                                          Œ! - all permutations
                                                          Ẏ - tighten (to a single list of all these individual permutations)
                                                          ⁴ - (using a left argument of) literal 16
                                                          Ɱ - map across it with:
                                                          ; - concatenate (put a 16 at the beginning of each one)
                                                          Ṣ - sort the resulting list of lists
                                                          Ƈ - filter keep those for which this is truthy:
                                                          Ç - call last Link as a monad (i.e. isSatisfactory(possiblePileChoice)
                                                          Ṫ - tail (get the right-most, i.e. the maximal satisfactory one)

                                                          FḟÇS - Main Link: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          F - flatten M
                                                          Ç - call last Link (2) as a monad (i.e. get getChosenPileList(M))
                                                          ḟ - filter discard (the resulting values) from (the flattened M)
                                                          S - sum





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                                                          • Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            yesterday






                                                          • 1




                                                            @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            10 hours ago













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                                                          Jelly,  31 30  29 bytes



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ
                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ
                                                          FḟÇS


                                                          Since the method is far too slow to run within 60s with the mouse starting on 16 this starts her off at 9 and limits her ability such that she is only able to eat 9s or less Try it online! (thus here she eats 9, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6, 3 leaving 97).



                                                          How?



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ - Link 1, isSatisfactory?: list of integers, possiblePileChoice
                                                          ³ - (using a left argument of) program's 3rd command line argument (M)
                                                          Ɱ - map across (possiblePileChoice) with:
                                                          œi - first multi-dimensional index of (the item) in (M)
                                                          Z - transpose the resulting list of [row, column] values
                                                          I - get the incremental differences
                                                          Ị - insignificant? (vectorises an abs(v) <= 1 test)
                                                          Ȧ - any and all? (0 if any 0s are present in the flattened result [or if it's empty])

                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ - Link 2, getChosenPileList: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          ⁴ - literal 16
                                                          Ṗ - pop -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
                                                          ŒP - power-set -> [,[1],[2],...,[1,2],[1,3],...,[2,3,7],...,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]]
                                                          € - for each:
                                                          Œ! - all permutations
                                                          Ẏ - tighten (to a single list of all these individual permutations)
                                                          ⁴ - (using a left argument of) literal 16
                                                          Ɱ - map across it with:
                                                          ; - concatenate (put a 16 at the beginning of each one)
                                                          Ṣ - sort the resulting list of lists
                                                          Ƈ - filter keep those for which this is truthy:
                                                          Ç - call last Link as a monad (i.e. isSatisfactory(possiblePileChoice)
                                                          Ṫ - tail (get the right-most, i.e. the maximal satisfactory one)

                                                          FḟÇS - Main Link: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          F - flatten M
                                                          Ç - call last Link (2) as a monad (i.e. get getChosenPileList(M))
                                                          ḟ - filter discard (the resulting values) from (the flattened M)
                                                          S - sum





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                                                          Jelly,  31 30  29 bytes



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ
                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ
                                                          FḟÇS


                                                          Since the method is far too slow to run within 60s with the mouse starting on 16 this starts her off at 9 and limits her ability such that she is only able to eat 9s or less Try it online! (thus here she eats 9, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6, 3 leaving 97).



                                                          How?



                                                          ³œiⱮZIỊȦ - Link 1, isSatisfactory?: list of integers, possiblePileChoice
                                                          ³ - (using a left argument of) program's 3rd command line argument (M)
                                                          Ɱ - map across (possiblePileChoice) with:
                                                          œi - first multi-dimensional index of (the item) in (M)
                                                          Z - transpose the resulting list of [row, column] values
                                                          I - get the incremental differences
                                                          Ị - insignificant? (vectorises an abs(v) <= 1 test)
                                                          Ȧ - any and all? (0 if any 0s are present in the flattened result [or if it's empty])

                                                          ⁴ṖŒPŒ!€Ẏ⁴;ⱮṢÇƇṪ - Link 2, getChosenPileList: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          ⁴ - literal 16
                                                          Ṗ - pop -> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]
                                                          ŒP - power-set -> [,[1],[2],...,[1,2],[1,3],...,[2,3,7],...,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]]
                                                          € - for each:
                                                          Œ! - all permutations
                                                          Ẏ - tighten (to a single list of all these individual permutations)
                                                          ⁴ - (using a left argument of) literal 16
                                                          Ɱ - map across it with:
                                                          ; - concatenate (put a 16 at the beginning of each one)
                                                          Ṣ - sort the resulting list of lists
                                                          Ƈ - filter keep those for which this is truthy:
                                                          Ç - call last Link as a monad (i.e. isSatisfactory(possiblePileChoice)
                                                          Ṫ - tail (get the right-most, i.e. the maximal satisfactory one)

                                                          FḟÇS - Main Link: list of lists of integers, M
                                                          F - flatten M
                                                          Ç - call last Link (2) as a monad (i.e. get getChosenPileList(M))
                                                          ḟ - filter discard (the resulting values) from (the flattened M)
                                                          S - sum






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                                                          • Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            yesterday






                                                          • 1




                                                            @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            10 hours ago


















                                                          • Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            yesterday






                                                          • 1




                                                            @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                            – Jonathan Allan
                                                            10 hours ago
















                                                          Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                          – Jonathan Allan
                                                          yesterday




                                                          Ah yeah, power-set is not enough!
                                                          – Jonathan Allan
                                                          yesterday




                                                          1




                                                          1




                                                          @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                          – Jonathan Allan
                                                          10 hours ago




                                                          @Arnauld - finally got a little time to golf :D This should work, but will be (way) too slow for running at TIO with the test case you used before.
                                                          – Jonathan Allan
                                                          10 hours ago










                                                          up vote
                                                          1
                                                          down vote













                                                          Not my best work. There's some definite improvements to be done, some probably fundamental to the algorithm used -- I'm sure it can be improved by using only an int, but I couldn't figure out how to efficiently enumerate neighbors that way. I'd love to see a PowerShell solution that uses only a single dimensional array!




                                                          PowerShell Core, 348 bytes





                                                          Function F($o){$t=120;$a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};$m=16;while($m-gt0){0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};$m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;$t-=$m;$a[$r][$c]=0}$t}


                                                          Try it online!





                                                          More readable version:



                                                          Function F($o){
                                                          $t=120;
                                                          $a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};
                                                          0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};
                                                          $m=16;
                                                          while($m-gt0){
                                                          0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};
                                                          $m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;
                                                          $t-=$m;
                                                          $a[$r][$c]=0
                                                          }
                                                          $t
                                                          }





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                                                            Not my best work. There's some definite improvements to be done, some probably fundamental to the algorithm used -- I'm sure it can be improved by using only an int, but I couldn't figure out how to efficiently enumerate neighbors that way. I'd love to see a PowerShell solution that uses only a single dimensional array!




                                                            PowerShell Core, 348 bytes





                                                            Function F($o){$t=120;$a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};$m=16;while($m-gt0){0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};$m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;$t-=$m;$a[$r][$c]=0}$t}


                                                            Try it online!





                                                            More readable version:



                                                            Function F($o){
                                                            $t=120;
                                                            $a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};
                                                            0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};
                                                            $m=16;
                                                            while($m-gt0){
                                                            0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};
                                                            $m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;
                                                            $t-=$m;
                                                            $a[$r][$c]=0
                                                            }
                                                            $t
                                                            }





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                                                              up vote
                                                              1
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                                                              Not my best work. There's some definite improvements to be done, some probably fundamental to the algorithm used -- I'm sure it can be improved by using only an int, but I couldn't figure out how to efficiently enumerate neighbors that way. I'd love to see a PowerShell solution that uses only a single dimensional array!




                                                              PowerShell Core, 348 bytes





                                                              Function F($o){$t=120;$a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};$m=16;while($m-gt0){0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};$m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;$t-=$m;$a[$r][$c]=0}$t}


                                                              Try it online!





                                                              More readable version:



                                                              Function F($o){
                                                              $t=120;
                                                              $a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};
                                                              0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};
                                                              $m=16;
                                                              while($m-gt0){
                                                              0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};
                                                              $m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;
                                                              $t-=$m;
                                                              $a[$r][$c]=0
                                                              }
                                                              $t
                                                              }





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                                                              Not my best work. There's some definite improvements to be done, some probably fundamental to the algorithm used -- I'm sure it can be improved by using only an int, but I couldn't figure out how to efficiently enumerate neighbors that way. I'd love to see a PowerShell solution that uses only a single dimensional array!




                                                              PowerShell Core, 348 bytes





                                                              Function F($o){$t=120;$a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};$m=16;while($m-gt0){0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};$m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;$t-=$m;$a[$r][$c]=0}$t}


                                                              Try it online!





                                                              More readable version:



                                                              Function F($o){
                                                              $t=120;
                                                              $a=@{-1=,0*4;4=,0*4};
                                                              0..3|%{$a[$_]=[int](-join$o[(3+18*$_)..(3+18*$_+13)]-split',')+,0};
                                                              $m=16;
                                                              while($m-gt0){
                                                              0..3|%{$i=$_;0..3|%{if($a[$i][$_]-eq$m){$r=$i;$c=$_}}};
                                                              $m=($a[$r-1][$c-1],$a[$r-1][$c],$a[$r-1][$c+1],$a[$r][$c+1],$a[$r][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c-1],$a[$r+1][$c],$a[$r+1][$c+1]|Measure -Max).Maximum;
                                                              $t-=$m;
                                                              $a[$r][$c]=0
                                                              }
                                                              $t
                                                              }






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                                                              answered 8 hours ago









                                                              Jeff Freeman

                                                              20114




                                                              20114






















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                                                                  1
                                                                  down vote














                                                                  R, 128 124 bytes





                                                                  r=rbind(0,cbind(0,matrix(scan(),4,4),0),0)
                                                                  m=which(r==16)
                                                                  while(r[m]){r[m]=0
                                                                  m=which(r==max(r[m+c(-7:-5,-1,1,5:7)]))}
                                                                  sum(r)


                                                                  Try it online!



                                                                  TIO link is slightly different, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work.



                                                                  I do feel like I can golf a lot more out of this. But this works for now.



                                                                  It creates a 4x4 matrix (which helped me to visualize things), pads it with 0's, then begins from 16 and searches it's surrounding "piles" for the next largest, and so forth.



                                                                  Upon conclusion, it does output a warning, but it is of no consequence and does not change the result.



                                                                  EDIT: -4 bytes by compressing the initialization of the matrix into 1 line






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                                                                    R, 128 124 bytes





                                                                    r=rbind(0,cbind(0,matrix(scan(),4,4),0),0)
                                                                    m=which(r==16)
                                                                    while(r[m]){r[m]=0
                                                                    m=which(r==max(r[m+c(-7:-5,-1,1,5:7)]))}
                                                                    sum(r)


                                                                    Try it online!



                                                                    TIO link is slightly different, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work.



                                                                    I do feel like I can golf a lot more out of this. But this works for now.



                                                                    It creates a 4x4 matrix (which helped me to visualize things), pads it with 0's, then begins from 16 and searches it's surrounding "piles" for the next largest, and so forth.



                                                                    Upon conclusion, it does output a warning, but it is of no consequence and does not change the result.



                                                                    EDIT: -4 bytes by compressing the initialization of the matrix into 1 line






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                                                                      1
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                                                                      up vote
                                                                      1
                                                                      down vote










                                                                      R, 128 124 bytes





                                                                      r=rbind(0,cbind(0,matrix(scan(),4,4),0),0)
                                                                      m=which(r==16)
                                                                      while(r[m]){r[m]=0
                                                                      m=which(r==max(r[m+c(-7:-5,-1,1,5:7)]))}
                                                                      sum(r)


                                                                      Try it online!



                                                                      TIO link is slightly different, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work.



                                                                      I do feel like I can golf a lot more out of this. But this works for now.



                                                                      It creates a 4x4 matrix (which helped me to visualize things), pads it with 0's, then begins from 16 and searches it's surrounding "piles" for the next largest, and so forth.



                                                                      Upon conclusion, it does output a warning, but it is of no consequence and does not change the result.



                                                                      EDIT: -4 bytes by compressing the initialization of the matrix into 1 line






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                                                                      R, 128 124 bytes





                                                                      r=rbind(0,cbind(0,matrix(scan(),4,4),0),0)
                                                                      m=which(r==16)
                                                                      while(r[m]){r[m]=0
                                                                      m=which(r==max(r[m+c(-7:-5,-1,1,5:7)]))}
                                                                      sum(r)


                                                                      Try it online!



                                                                      TIO link is slightly different, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work.



                                                                      I do feel like I can golf a lot more out of this. But this works for now.



                                                                      It creates a 4x4 matrix (which helped me to visualize things), pads it with 0's, then begins from 16 and searches it's surrounding "piles" for the next largest, and so forth.



                                                                      Upon conclusion, it does output a warning, but it is of no consequence and does not change the result.



                                                                      EDIT: -4 bytes by compressing the initialization of the matrix into 1 line







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                                                                      edited 6 hours ago

























                                                                      answered 6 hours ago









                                                                      Sumner18

                                                                      1715




                                                                      1715






















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                                                                          1
                                                                          down vote













                                                                          Powershell, 143 141 bytes



                                                                          -2 bytes: Yeah, one zero as delimiter is enough.





                                                                          $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                          for($n=16;$n){$a[($i=$a.IndexOf($n))]=0
                                                                          [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{$a[$i+$_]}|measure -ma|% ma*}
                                                                          $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                          $s


                                                                          Less golfed test script:



                                                                          $f = {

                                                                          $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                          for($n=16;$n){
                                                                          $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                          $a[$i]=0
                                                                          [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                          $a[$i+$_]
                                                                          }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                          }
                                                                          $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                          $s

                                                                          }

                                                                          @(
                                                                          ,( 0 , ( 4, 3, 2, 1), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), (12, 11, 10, 9), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                          ,( 0 , ( 8, 1, 9, 14), (11, 6, 5, 16), (13, 15, 2, 7), (10, 3, 12, 4) )
                                                                          ,( 1 , ( 1, 2, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                          ,( 3 , (10, 15, 14, 11), ( 9, 3, 1, 7), (13, 5, 12, 6), ( 2, 8, 4, 16) )
                                                                          ,( 12 , ( 3, 7, 10, 5), ( 6, 8, 12, 13), (15, 9, 11, 4), (14, 1, 16, 2) )
                                                                          ,( 34 , ( 8, 9, 3, 6), (13, 11, 7, 15), (12, 10, 16, 2), ( 4, 14, 1, 5) )
                                                                          ,( 51 , ( 8, 11, 12, 9), (14, 5, 10, 16), ( 7, 3, 1, 6), (13, 4, 2, 15) )
                                                                          ,( 78 , (13, 14, 1, 2), (16, 15, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12) )
                                                                          ,( 102, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 4, 13), ( 7, 8, 5, 14), ( 3, 16, 6, 15) )
                                                                          ,( 103, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 7, 13), ( 6, 16, 4, 14), ( 3, 8, 5, 15) )
                                                                          ) | % {
                                                                          $expected, $a = $_
                                                                          $result = &$f @a
                                                                          "$($result-eq$expected): $result"
                                                                          }


                                                                          Output:



                                                                          True: 0
                                                                          True: 0
                                                                          True: 1
                                                                          True: 3
                                                                          True: 12
                                                                          True: 34
                                                                          True: 51
                                                                          True: 78
                                                                          True: 102
                                                                          True: 103


                                                                          Explanation:



                                                                          First, add a border of 0 and make a single dimensional array:





                                                                          0 0 0 0 0
                                                                          0 # # # #
                                                                          0 # # # #
                                                                          0 # # # #
                                                                          0 # # # #
                                                                          0 0 0 0 0



                                                                          0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 0 0 0 0 0


                                                                          Second, loop biggest neighbor pile started from 16 to non-zero-maximum. And nullify it (The Hungry Mouse eats it).





                                                                          for($n=16;$n){
                                                                          $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                          $a[$i]=0
                                                                          [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                          $a[$i+$_]
                                                                          }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                          }


                                                                          Third, sum of the remaining piles.






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                                                                            down vote













                                                                            Powershell, 143 141 bytes



                                                                            -2 bytes: Yeah, one zero as delimiter is enough.





                                                                            $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                            for($n=16;$n){$a[($i=$a.IndexOf($n))]=0
                                                                            [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{$a[$i+$_]}|measure -ma|% ma*}
                                                                            $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                            $s


                                                                            Less golfed test script:



                                                                            $f = {

                                                                            $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                            for($n=16;$n){
                                                                            $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                            $a[$i]=0
                                                                            [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                            $a[$i+$_]
                                                                            }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                            }
                                                                            $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                            $s

                                                                            }

                                                                            @(
                                                                            ,( 0 , ( 4, 3, 2, 1), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), (12, 11, 10, 9), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                            ,( 0 , ( 8, 1, 9, 14), (11, 6, 5, 16), (13, 15, 2, 7), (10, 3, 12, 4) )
                                                                            ,( 1 , ( 1, 2, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                            ,( 3 , (10, 15, 14, 11), ( 9, 3, 1, 7), (13, 5, 12, 6), ( 2, 8, 4, 16) )
                                                                            ,( 12 , ( 3, 7, 10, 5), ( 6, 8, 12, 13), (15, 9, 11, 4), (14, 1, 16, 2) )
                                                                            ,( 34 , ( 8, 9, 3, 6), (13, 11, 7, 15), (12, 10, 16, 2), ( 4, 14, 1, 5) )
                                                                            ,( 51 , ( 8, 11, 12, 9), (14, 5, 10, 16), ( 7, 3, 1, 6), (13, 4, 2, 15) )
                                                                            ,( 78 , (13, 14, 1, 2), (16, 15, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12) )
                                                                            ,( 102, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 4, 13), ( 7, 8, 5, 14), ( 3, 16, 6, 15) )
                                                                            ,( 103, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 7, 13), ( 6, 16, 4, 14), ( 3, 8, 5, 15) )
                                                                            ) | % {
                                                                            $expected, $a = $_
                                                                            $result = &$f @a
                                                                            "$($result-eq$expected): $result"
                                                                            }


                                                                            Output:



                                                                            True: 0
                                                                            True: 0
                                                                            True: 1
                                                                            True: 3
                                                                            True: 12
                                                                            True: 34
                                                                            True: 51
                                                                            True: 78
                                                                            True: 102
                                                                            True: 103


                                                                            Explanation:



                                                                            First, add a border of 0 and make a single dimensional array:





                                                                            0 0 0 0 0
                                                                            0 # # # #
                                                                            0 # # # #
                                                                            0 # # # #
                                                                            0 # # # #
                                                                            0 0 0 0 0



                                                                            0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 0 0 0 0 0


                                                                            Second, loop biggest neighbor pile started from 16 to non-zero-maximum. And nullify it (The Hungry Mouse eats it).





                                                                            for($n=16;$n){
                                                                            $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                            $a[$i]=0
                                                                            [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                            $a[$i+$_]
                                                                            }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                            }


                                                                            Third, sum of the remaining piles.






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                                                                              1
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                                                                              up vote
                                                                              1
                                                                              down vote









                                                                              Powershell, 143 141 bytes



                                                                              -2 bytes: Yeah, one zero as delimiter is enough.





                                                                              $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                              for($n=16;$n){$a[($i=$a.IndexOf($n))]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{$a[$i+$_]}|measure -ma|% ma*}
                                                                              $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                              $s


                                                                              Less golfed test script:



                                                                              $f = {

                                                                              $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                              for($n=16;$n){
                                                                              $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                              $a[$i]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                              $a[$i+$_]
                                                                              }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                              }
                                                                              $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                              $s

                                                                              }

                                                                              @(
                                                                              ,( 0 , ( 4, 3, 2, 1), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), (12, 11, 10, 9), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 0 , ( 8, 1, 9, 14), (11, 6, 5, 16), (13, 15, 2, 7), (10, 3, 12, 4) )
                                                                              ,( 1 , ( 1, 2, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 3 , (10, 15, 14, 11), ( 9, 3, 1, 7), (13, 5, 12, 6), ( 2, 8, 4, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 12 , ( 3, 7, 10, 5), ( 6, 8, 12, 13), (15, 9, 11, 4), (14, 1, 16, 2) )
                                                                              ,( 34 , ( 8, 9, 3, 6), (13, 11, 7, 15), (12, 10, 16, 2), ( 4, 14, 1, 5) )
                                                                              ,( 51 , ( 8, 11, 12, 9), (14, 5, 10, 16), ( 7, 3, 1, 6), (13, 4, 2, 15) )
                                                                              ,( 78 , (13, 14, 1, 2), (16, 15, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12) )
                                                                              ,( 102, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 4, 13), ( 7, 8, 5, 14), ( 3, 16, 6, 15) )
                                                                              ,( 103, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 7, 13), ( 6, 16, 4, 14), ( 3, 8, 5, 15) )
                                                                              ) | % {
                                                                              $expected, $a = $_
                                                                              $result = &$f @a
                                                                              "$($result-eq$expected): $result"
                                                                              }


                                                                              Output:



                                                                              True: 0
                                                                              True: 0
                                                                              True: 1
                                                                              True: 3
                                                                              True: 12
                                                                              True: 34
                                                                              True: 51
                                                                              True: 78
                                                                              True: 102
                                                                              True: 103


                                                                              Explanation:



                                                                              First, add a border of 0 and make a single dimensional array:





                                                                              0 0 0 0 0
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 0 0 0 0



                                                                              0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 0 0 0 0 0


                                                                              Second, loop biggest neighbor pile started from 16 to non-zero-maximum. And nullify it (The Hungry Mouse eats it).





                                                                              for($n=16;$n){
                                                                              $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                              $a[$i]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                              $a[$i+$_]
                                                                              }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                              }


                                                                              Third, sum of the remaining piles.






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                                                                              Powershell, 143 141 bytes



                                                                              -2 bytes: Yeah, one zero as delimiter is enough.





                                                                              $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                              for($n=16;$n){$a[($i=$a.IndexOf($n))]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{$a[$i+$_]}|measure -ma|% ma*}
                                                                              $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                              $s


                                                                              Less golfed test script:



                                                                              $f = {

                                                                              $a=,0*6+($args|%{$_+0})+,0*4
                                                                              for($n=16;$n){
                                                                              $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                              $a[$i]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                              $a[$i+$_]
                                                                              }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                              }
                                                                              $a|%{$s+=$_}
                                                                              $s

                                                                              }

                                                                              @(
                                                                              ,( 0 , ( 4, 3, 2, 1), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), (12, 11, 10, 9), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 0 , ( 8, 1, 9, 14), (11, 6, 5, 16), (13, 15, 2, 7), (10, 3, 12, 4) )
                                                                              ,( 1 , ( 1, 2, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12), (13, 14, 15, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 3 , (10, 15, 14, 11), ( 9, 3, 1, 7), (13, 5, 12, 6), ( 2, 8, 4, 16) )
                                                                              ,( 12 , ( 3, 7, 10, 5), ( 6, 8, 12, 13), (15, 9, 11, 4), (14, 1, 16, 2) )
                                                                              ,( 34 , ( 8, 9, 3, 6), (13, 11, 7, 15), (12, 10, 16, 2), ( 4, 14, 1, 5) )
                                                                              ,( 51 , ( 8, 11, 12, 9), (14, 5, 10, 16), ( 7, 3, 1, 6), (13, 4, 2, 15) )
                                                                              ,( 78 , (13, 14, 1, 2), (16, 15, 3, 4), ( 5, 6, 7, 8), ( 9, 10, 11, 12) )
                                                                              ,( 102, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 4, 13), ( 7, 8, 5, 14), ( 3, 16, 6, 15) )
                                                                              ,( 103, ( 9, 10, 11, 12), ( 1, 2, 7, 13), ( 6, 16, 4, 14), ( 3, 8, 5, 15) )
                                                                              ) | % {
                                                                              $expected, $a = $_
                                                                              $result = &$f @a
                                                                              "$($result-eq$expected): $result"
                                                                              }


                                                                              Output:



                                                                              True: 0
                                                                              True: 0
                                                                              True: 1
                                                                              True: 3
                                                                              True: 12
                                                                              True: 34
                                                                              True: 51
                                                                              True: 78
                                                                              True: 102
                                                                              True: 103


                                                                              Explanation:



                                                                              First, add a border of 0 and make a single dimensional array:





                                                                              0 0 0 0 0
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 # # # #
                                                                              0 0 0 0 0



                                                                              0 0 0 0 0 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 # # # # 0 0 0 0 0 0


                                                                              Second, loop biggest neighbor pile started from 16 to non-zero-maximum. And nullify it (The Hungry Mouse eats it).





                                                                              for($n=16;$n){
                                                                              $i=$a.IndexOf($n)
                                                                              $a[$i]=0
                                                                              [int]$n=-1,1+-6..-4+4..6|%{
                                                                              $a[$i+$_]
                                                                              }|measure -maximum|% maximum
                                                                              }


                                                                              Third, sum of the remaining piles.







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