diff --git a/N-Queens.java b/N-Queens.java
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+// Time Complexity : O(n!)
+// Space Complexity : O(n^2) for the board and O(n) for recursive stack
+// Did this code successfully run on Leetcode : yes
+// Any problem you faced while coding this : no
+
+// Your code here along with comments explaining your approach
+/*
+Initialize a board first of boolean matrix where we can construct the expected output as 'Q' and '.' whenever
+cell has true & false values respectively.But, to identify if we can place a queen in a cell and mark it as true
+or not, we need to check if its valid position or not.So, we maintain 3 boolean arrays to check the rules for same
+column, diagonal, and anti-diagonal violations. We do a row recursion checking each column iteratively to identify
+any violations and marking the cell as true.For diagonal violation, the sum of row and column value are same and
+for anti diagonal violation, the difference row and column are same, we add an offset of n value for easy check.
+ */
+class Solution {
+    List<List<String>> result;
+    boolean[][] board;
+    boolean[] colSet;
+    boolean[] diagSet;
+    boolean[] antiDiagSet;
+    public List<List<String>> solveNQueens(int n) {
+        this.result = new ArrayList<>();
+        this.board = new boolean[n][n];
+        this.colSet = new boolean[2*n];
+        this.diagSet = new boolean[2*n];
+        this.antiDiagSet = new boolean[2*n];
+        helper(0, n);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    private void helper(int row, int n) {
+        if(row == n) {
+            List<String> temp = new ArrayList<>();
+            for(int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++) {
+                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+                for(int j = 0 ; j < n ; j++) {
+                    if(board[i][j]) {
+                        sb.append("Q");
+                    } else {
+                        sb.append(".");
+                    }
+                }
+                temp.add(sb.toString());
+            }
+            result.add(temp);
+        }
+
+        for(int col = 0 ; col < n ; col++) {
+            int diagIndex = row + col;
+            int antiDiagIndex = row - col + n;
+            if(!colSet[col] && !diagSet[diagIndex] && !antiDiagSet[antiDiagIndex]) {
+                colSet[col] = true;
+                diagSet[diagIndex] = true;
+                antiDiagSet[antiDiagIndex] = true;
+
+                board[row][col] = true;
+                helper(row + 1, n);
+                board[row][col] = false;
+
+                colSet[col] = false;
+                diagSet[diagIndex] = false;
+                antiDiagSet[antiDiagIndex] = false;
+
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/WordSearch.java b/WordSearch.java
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+// Time Complexity : O(m * n * 4^L) where L is length of the word
+// Space Complexity : O(L) recursive stack space of length of the word
+// Did this code successfully run on Leetcode : yes
+// Any problem you faced while coding this : no
+
+// Your code here along with comments explaining your approach
+/*
+The idea is to first identify the position of the word's first letter in the board and then leverage helper dfs
+method to recursively traverse in all 4 directions to check if we are able to find next letters of the word in
+the traversal. At any point, if we dont find or boundaries are not met, we return false. If we reach the end of
+the length of the word, it means we found the word and return true.It is important to backtrack by visit and unvisit
+if a direction doesnt lead us as required. Also, to optimize, we perform a frequency check of number of times a
+character is appearing in the board vs word, if at any time, the count doesnt match, we return false at the start
+itself.
+ */
+class Solution {
+    int m, n;
+    int[][] dirs;
+    public boolean exist(char[][] board, String word) {
+        this.m = board.length;
+        this.n = board[0].length;
+        this.dirs = new int[][]{{0, -1}, {-1, 0}, {0, 1}, {1,0}};
+        int[] wordCount = new int[128];
+
+        for(int i = 0 ; i < m ; i++) {
+            for(int j = 0 ; j < n ; j++) {
+                char ch = board[i][j];
+                wordCount[ch]++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        for(int i = 0 ; i < word.length() ; i++) {
+            char ch = word.charAt(i);
+            wordCount[ch]--;
+            if(wordCount[ch] < 0)
+                return false;
+        }
+
+
+
+        for(int i = 0 ; i < m ; i++) {
+            for(int j = 0 ; j < n ; j++) {
+                if(board[i][j] == word.charAt(0)) {
+                    if(dfs(board, word, i, j, 0))
+                        return true;
+                }
+
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private boolean dfs(char[][] board, String word, int i, int j, int index) {
+        if(index == word.length())
+            return true;
+
+        if(i < 0 || j < 0 || i == m || j == n)
+            return false;
+
+        if(board[i][j] != word.charAt(index))
+            return false;
+
+        board[i][j] = '#';
+
+        for(int[] dir : dirs) {
+            int newRow = dir[0] + i;
+            int newCol = dir[1] + j;
+            if(dfs(board, word, newRow, newCol, index + 1))
+                return true;
+        }
+        board[i][j] = word.charAt(index);
+        return false;
+    }
+}
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