The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I saw Jump Game II on a whiteboard during an interview. The problem statement is simple: given an array where each element tells you the maximum jump length from that position, find the minimum number of jumps needed to reach the last index. My brain immediately went to dynamic programming — fill a table, try every possible jump, O(n²) time, O(n) space. I coded it, ran the test cases, and felt like I was brute‑forcing a puzzle in...