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The command required to run the program is unnecessarily complicated. It should be a simple command with a single argument (the input file). This can be accomplished with a makefile, or potentially some other method.

The output contains a lot of unneeded information, which makes it cluttered and hard to read. To improve this, each picture on a board should be assigned a number, and the output message can display the numbers of the pictures in each hap.

The Gyul! Hap! game featured in season 4 of The Genius has different colours and shapes than the ones from previous seasons. Support for these additional colours and shapes should be added to the program.

If there are no haps on the board, the hard-coded portions of the output message should be different than
when the board has haps.

It's tedious to type out all of the properties for each picture on a board. To help make this process quicker, input files should be allowed to contain short forms for each property.

For example, instead of having to type "Red Circle Black", a user should be able to just type "RCB".

Might run into trouble with this when multiple options for the same property begin with the same letter (i.e. the shapes "Sun" and "Star").

The program should handle the following cases of invalid formatting in the input file without breaking:

• Empty lines
• Fewer than three pictures on the board
• Any text that does not correspond to a supported colour, shape, or background colour