This problem can be reframed as a shortest-path problem. We consider each pie to be a node, and a directed edge between nodes $A$ and $B$ to exist if Bessie can gift pie $B$ to Elsie after receiving pie $A$ (or likewise for Elsie to Bessie). Under this formulation, we are given $2N$ "starting nodes" and must determine, for each such node, the shortest path to a valid "ending node".
We cannot simply use all-pairs shortest paths to solve this problem, as such algorithms are too slow for $N \leq 10^5$. However, we can take advantage of the fact that all paths have weight $1$, and perform the search using a BFS from multiple source nodes. This can be done simply by adding all source nodes to the queue at the beginning of the algorithm.
Normally, this algorithm would take $O(N)$, but we also need to efficiently find, for various given $k$, the set of nodes that have tastiness value between $k$ and $k + D$. This can be done using binary search after sorting both Bessie's and Elsie's list of pies by how tasty they consider them to be. This makes our overall running time $O(N \lg N)$, which is still plenty fast enough to receive full credit.
Here's Dhruv's solution. He uses C++'s $\texttt{multiset}$ to perform binary searches:
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <set>
using namespace std;
#define MAXN 100000
#define INF 1000000000
int N,D;
int A[2*MAXN];
int B[2*MAXN];
int dist[2*MAXN];
struct cmpA
{
bool operator()(int a,int b) const
{
return B[a]<B[b];
}
};
struct cmpB
{
bool operator()(int a,int b) const
{
return A[a]<A[b];
}
};
multiset<int,cmpA> sA;
multiset<int,cmpB> sB;
int que[2*MAXN];
int cur,len;
int main()
{
cin >> N >> D;
for(int i=0;i<2*N;i++)
{
cin >> A[i] >> B[i];
A[i] = -A[i], B[i] = -B[i];
dist[i] = -1;
}
for(int i=0;i<N;i++)
{
if(B[i]==0)
que[len++] = i, dist[i] = 1;
else
sA.insert(i);
if(A[N+i]==0)
que[len++] = N+i, dist[N+i] = 1;
else
sB.insert(N+i);
}
multiset<int,cmpA>::iterator itA;
multiset<int,cmpB>::iterator itB;
while(cur < len)
{
int i = que[cur];
if(i < N)
{
while(1)
{
itB = sB.lower_bound(i);
if(itB == sB.end() || A[*itB] > A[i]+D)
break;
dist[*itB] = dist[i] + 1;
que[len++] = *itB;
sB.erase(itB);
}
}
else
{
while(1)
{
itA = sA.lower_bound(i);
if(itA == sA.end() || B[*itA] > B[i]+D)
break;
dist[*itA] = dist[i] + 1;
que[len++] = *itA;
sA.erase(itA);
}
}
cur++;
}
for(int i=0;i<N;i++)
cout << dist[i] << '\n';
}