Special Matrix
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You are given a square matrix of size n (it will be an odd integer). Rows are indexed 0 to n-1 from top to bottom and columns are indexed 0 to n-1 form left to right. Matrix consists of only '*' and '.'. '*' appears only once in the matrix while all other positions are occupied by '.'

Your task is to convert this matrix to a special matrix by following any of two operations any number of times.

  1. you can swap any two adjecent rows, i and i+1 (0<= i < n-1)

  2. you can swap any two adjecent columns, j and j+1 (0<= j < n-1)

Special Matrix is one which contain '*' at middle of matrix. e.g following is size 7 special matrix

    .......
    .......
    .......
    ...*...
    .......
    .......
    .......

Output no of steps to convert given matrix to special matrix.

INPUT:

first line contains t, no of test cases first line of each test case contains n (size of matrix) followed by n lines containing n characters each.

OUTPUT:

print t lines, each containing an integer, the answer for the test case.

Constraints:

0 <= t <= 50
3 <= n <= 20

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