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Are you assuming that the cycle will always include the initial state? It does, as it turns out, but that's not really obvious (at least to me) from the problem.
Yes, I'm not sure how to prove it but I had a hunch that was the case. So I initially wrote some code to print the grid right after the cycle is detected and lo and behold, it was the initial state.