Riddler - Solutions to Castles Puzzle: castle-solutions-3.csv
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Link | rowid | Castle 1 | Castle 2 | Castle 3 ▼ | Castle 4 | Castle 5 | Castle 6 | Castle 7 | Castle 8 | Castle 9 | Castle 10 | Why did you choose your troop deployment? |
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13 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 32 | You only need 28 to win |
17 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 34 | 34 | 14 | 2 | It’s basically a bell curve, but with one soldier in Castle 1 because I had to. |
59 | 59 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 32 | I do have to win all 4 of my engagements, which doesn't leave any margin for error. I'm confident in castle 1, and 2/3 for 8-10. So I just have to get a little lucky that opponents spread their forces out too much. |
64 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 24 | Magic |
66 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 22 | Beats most of previous 2 games |
94 | 94 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 21 | 27 | 31 | Securing the high castles is paramount to our victory, with a few sneaky +1 to counteract those who wish to tie us in mortal combat. |
113 | 113 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | Just Cause |
116 | 116 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 30 | I'm dumb |
123 | 123 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | You need to get points, and probably the only way to do that is to win a house outright. I am guessing that someone will do 100 for 10 and 9, so guessing 8 will be the one where people don't apply 100. |
176 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 22 | 3 | 24 | 27 | 0 | Key is to get to 28. Wanted to stack as few castles as possible to increase probability of winning those. Left 7, 4, and 3 as contingency plans in case someone was doing the same. |
201 | 201 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 33 | 2 | Why did you force at least 1 unit to go to castle 1? |
205 | 205 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 35 | For the goal of winning 28 points, I plan to take castle 9 and 10. Then win any two among castle 7-9. I'm avoiding castle 4 - - 5 as they seemed to be hotly contested in prior matches |
208 | 208 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 37 | 40 | |
210 | 210 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 29 | I expect eight and seven to be hotly contested, so I left them open along with three and two giving the opponent 20 points out of the gate. One required a value greater than zero, so I gave it one. With an average of three, I will likely lose one and the opponent will have 21 points. I plan to take four and five which were hotly contested in the last round and may be less so in this round. Six will be a toss-up. Nine and ten must be taken. If I can take four, five, nine, and ten, I will have 28 points and the opponent would have 27. |
216 | 216 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 0 | In order to assign the maximum number of soldiers to selected castles, from all castle combinations that sum up to 28 with just 4 castles, I choose to ignore castle 10 and concentrate forces to 9,8,7 (25 on each) then I just need one of 4,5 or 6 so I had to share the rest 25 soldiers to those 3 castles. To increase chances I placed 12 soldiers to 4 and 6 and the last remaining to castle 1( that was unintentional, since I had to place at least on soldier to castle 1) |
235 | 235 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |
254 | 254 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 25 | Control the four top castles that add up to more than the rest. |
258 | 258 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 3 | Captain Chaos |
259 | 259 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 26 | War |
277 | 277 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 35 | 40 | 0 | Cheapest way to 28 total points. It did make me place one troop in castle one for some reason. Would rather have put that soldier at 4. |
306 | 306 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 31 | 30 | I am just trying to get to the minimum amount of points to win: 28. I found the combination with the least amount of castles I possibly need to win and dumped all my points into these 4, forgoing the rest completely as they are not important in my winning strategy. Also, based on the previous 2 games, I decided to put the least in castle 1 in order to stack 8, 9, and 10 to the fullest possible. |
307 | 307 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 32 | 6 | Picked some castles to go for, crossed my fingers no one else goes for them |
326 | 326 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | Ignored 9&10 and chose the fewest castles past that to give me more than 28 points and weighed troops by value |
329 | 329 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 26 | 28 | 0 | 0 | Distributed my troops evenly through 4-8 which will give me 30 points each time banking on that I have more troop in those stations giving the other opponent 10-9-3-2-. |
339 | 339 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | |
343 | 343 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 23 | 0 | 30 | 27 | 0 | There's no way to win without at least four castles, so I focused on winning four and tried to optimize versus earlier distributions. |
349 | 349 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 25 | |
355 | 355 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 36 | 35 | limit losing troops, look for highest return on investment |
364 | 364 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | Nash Equilibrium |
369 | 369 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 28 | 31 | Subscribe to the "Barely Win or Lose by a Lot" theory. |
371 | 371 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 31 | Try and get the 10 and then the 5-7 which weren't as heavily contested |
373 | 373 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 31 | 31 | To win. |
406 | 406 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 1 | |
447 | 447 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 31 | 32 | 0 | I went for the less "psychologically significant" castles which would still give me a significant advantage. I sent 11 troops to 4 as an additional bonus in case someone is close to me in the upper ranges, or sweeps all the castles I didn't send any troops to - and since 11 just barely beats the simple strategy of sending 10 troops to each castle. I sent 26 to 7 because 26 is one more than 25 (another round number I expect people to use a lot), and similarly I sent 31 (rather than 30) to #8. Hope this works! |
449 | 449 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 31 | 31 | If I win the 10, 9, 8 and 1, I have 28 which is just enough to win. |
458 | 458 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 50 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 seems like a good number. And I didn't want to send any lone soldiers off to die. I expect to win Castle 6 around 1/3 of the time, so hey, that's like 2 points. I'm feeling positive about it. |
461 | 461 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 21 | 0 | 22 | 36 | 2 | |
468 | 468 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 35 | I only need 28 points to win, so I'm only investing my soldiers in 4 attacks to get me the 28 - the three highest totals plus one point. |
469 | 469 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 38 | predictive to the human adjustment from round #2, I assumed flipped value on #9 and #10, otherwise assumed the meta deployment would be similar to before |
471 | 471 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 33 | 32 | I need 28 points to win, so I'm fighting hard for those 28 points. |
472 | 472 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 21 | 25 | Guarantee 10 and then assume no one else would expend more than 20 on any particular castle. Guarantee 9 and 8 on this rule and then spread the rest out descending. |
480 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 22 | 18 | Maximize points from ties |
484 | 484 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 1 | |
486 | 486 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 35 | 35 | Compared the strategy against a uniform deployment (10 / castle) and against the winner from second round. Tried to get at least 28 points against both strategies. |
487 | 487 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 35 | 15 | |
489 | 489 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 34 | 41 | 0 | The minimum number of castles needed is 3 which have to add up to 23. 6 is app. 25% of 23 so 25 soldiers 8 is app. 33% of 23 so 34 soldiers and the rest go to 9. |
493 | 493 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 38 | 23 points are needed to ensure a win - Overwhelming top two castles can get to 19 and then I just need to pick up one more of the other castles to win. Splitting between two helps cover bases if I lose one of the 9/10 and also increases odds i get the one castle to push me over 23 if I win the top two. |
495 | 495 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 27 | 27 | 11 | Sacrifice the low scoring to just barely overload the mid-to-high tier castles |
519 | 519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 5 | |
523 | 523 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 0 | 0 | Play for the middle and push for the top but don’t over commit |
525 | 525 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 0 | 30 | 35 | 0 | I'm going all-in for getting the bare minimum points of 28 or more. The fewest castles I need is 4. 10-9-8-7 is an option but lots of people will go after castle 10, so I'm going after 5-6-8-9. Same number of castles, but I'm playing off the beaten path. Also, 5-6-8-9 are all castles that are in fewer winning combinations, so they're more likely to be won by me. The actual troop placements are based on the relative difficults I computed for winning those particular castles. |
541 | 541 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 32 | 26 | The bare minimum to win 28 victory points, assuming I win all of my chosen battles. This allows me to maximize my troop deployment to a minimum number of castles. |
542 | 542 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 30 | People are going to overthink it. 1/8/9/10 is enough to win. |
544 | 544 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 34 | Stakeout the middle and get the top one. Didn’t waste on other castles. |
546 | 546 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 23 points to win. Overload the highest rated castles and sacrifice everything else |
550 | 550 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 33 | 35 | |
551 | 551 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 34 | Focusing resources where they could be useful, deliberately avoiding a couple of high-value targets to win the war |
552 | 552 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 31 | 32 | The goal is to get 28 points. Concentrated troops at the least amount of castles to achieve that. |
556 | 556 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | Win four of the top five castles, and you win. This particular troop distribution fights harder for the bigger prizes; would win against four of the five top strategies devised last time; and should be able to compete against anyone putting significant effort in winning lower tier castles, as people have been doing. |
563 | 563 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 21 | 0 | 26 | 36 | 0 | I think a lot of people will be fighting for #10 and #1 because 10 is worth the most points and #1 is the tiebreaker if you went 10,9,8,1 or 7,6,5,4,3,2,1. I considered going for 10,9,8, 2 to avoid fighting over the #1 and because I could win even with a tie on #2, and then realized I could avoid #10 as well. In summary, I'm avoiding fighting over what I expect to be hotly contested #10 and #1 in favor of #6 and #5 while maintaining the concentration of my troops by only needing to capture 4 castles to win. As far as specific troop distribution goes, I made sure I had at least three times the castle number and dumped a bunch extra on #9, which I think will receive a heavy designation from anyone pursuing a variant of the 10,9,8,1 strategy. I did not assign any troop numbers that end in 0 or 5, they are too popular. |
580 | 580 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | Instead of spreading out my troops, I wanted to backend my troops toward the castles with higher amount of individual points. |
586 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 29 | 29 | 0 | Let me try this again because I did my math wrong. Sacrifices must be made! Castles 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10 are dead to me. |
587 | 587 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 30 | 1 | Grasp barely enough castles to win, plus one in 10 as a counter strategy against a mirror match. |
588 | 588 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 32 | The smallest 3 castles combine for only 6 points, so they're not worth deploying to, especially since that increases the available troops you can commit to the more valuable targets. |
589 | 589 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 13 | beat the average for both original Feb. and May soldiers per castle for all of the most valuable castles - punt on the low point battles. |
606 | 606 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | Focus more troops on enough points to get more than half of points. |
610 | 610 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | Try to ensure victory at the top 3 values, which are greater than the sum of the rest |
629 | 629 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 29 | 22 | 11 | 4 | Created a slightly skewed normal distribution centered on 7 then mapped 100 soldiers across that distribution! |
634 | 634 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 35 | 28 points is a win, so that's all I'm going for. The Castle 1 victory is essential! |
648 | 648 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | All of the troops at the first castle higher than 5 |
662 | 662 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 32 | 42 | 0 | I only need to win 3 castles, assuming people focus on 10, I decided to ignore it an focus on the next three and then power creep 9 and 8 in case people had the same idea as I did. |
668 | 668 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
689 | 689 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 22 | |
691 | 691 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 24 | 20 | 18 | Assume strategies converge to a Poisson distribution around the lastest averages, and optimise. |
713 | 713 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 40 | |
728 | 728 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 25 | 27 | |
745 | 745 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 32 | 34 | My plan hinges on capturing the most valuable castles, 8, 9 and 10, as well as capitalizing - hopefully - on a perceived deficiency in the lowest value castle, 1. The total value of 55 divided by 2 gets 27.5, so the magic number is 28. 10, 9, and 8 would get me to 27 already, so capturing 1 alone would put me over the top. If I lose any battle I've committed to, I lose. If I tie any battle I've committed to, I lose (other than 1, in which I'd tie). Hopefully all works out. |
759 | 759 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 31 | 24 | Magic |
760 | 760 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 32 | 18 | 4 | I am modifying a model of a weighted bell curve, giving least priority to castles that have the least effective in point value, but also avoiding major battles for the top castles, which are relatively equivalent in value. Also trying to beat people who tend to round off or beat people who round, though that might be overthinking it. |
768 | 768 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 33 | 34 | 3 | Trying to win 9, 8, 6, and 5, and hoping I can steal some of the others. |
772 | 772 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 16 | 13 | 17 | 23 | Inverted bell curve for the top castles, leaving ineffective castles empty. |
773 | 773 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 21 | 21 | 30 | 0 | Ill sacrifice the extremes and try to take the bulk of the points in the middle |
776 | 776 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 33 | |
777 | 777 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 30 | 30 | 28 is a win, so concentrate where you need to win, and win! |
787 | 787 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 40 | 25 | 0 | Choose four castles whose total point value is 28. Go all out for them. |
791 | 791 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 35 | A gross misunderstanding of all logic |
798 | 798 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 30 | 30 | A deliberate overkill strategy, designed to get exactly 28 points. If my guess is right then people will back down a bit on the bids on the higher, and still ignore the lower values. In this strategy you have to take the top 3, so the 1 value castle is the best hope to steal a final strategy. It just seemed like an interesting idea. |
801 | 801 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 24 | 33 | 0 | Avoided overcommit on 10. Attempted to stack 9 and upper middle. |
804 | 804 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 20 | just felt intuitively good |
806 | 806 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 34 | Go big or go home |
811 | 811 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 30 | Just need 28 points to win. Figure I can almost always win 1 point with a small number on 1. Then maximize my focus on 8, 9, and 10. |
823 | 823 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 25 | 35 | Just a hunch I had based on previous editions |
825 | 825 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 31 | 0 | All focused on the fewest castles needed to win, avoiding the highest and lowest valued. |
830 | 830 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 37 | Felt right :) |
834 | 834 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 28 to 27 |
836 | 836 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 35 | 30 | No modelling, just a ten second guess on what others would do on average. (It's a no stakes game.) 28 is needed to win. 10 + 9 + 8 + 1 suffices. Naturally you'd expect them to be hotly contested, but this is well above the average content of those castles so let's let the last two round's data suggest it is worth a go attacking them. So let's sacrifice losing to players that take alternative strategies to see if this wins enough rounds against common submissions. And taking a complete guess that the peak of the contest will move from castle 8 to castle 9. |
838 | 838 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 30 | 35 | 0 | |
844 | 844 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 30 | 3 | 1 | Try to have a large enough force where opponents would not expect it. |
850 | 850 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 39 | 0 | Highest % troops outside Castle 10 |
852 | 852 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40 | I wanted to deploy high numbers of troops to the highest value castles to get as close to victory at the beginning as possible. From there, it only takes 6 more points to win the game, so I put all my remaining troops in Castle 6 to have the best chance of taking the points needed to win. |
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CREATE TABLE "riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3" ( "Castle 1" INTEGER, "Castle 2" INTEGER, "Castle 3" INTEGER, "Castle 4" INTEGER, "Castle 5" INTEGER, "Castle 6" INTEGER, "Castle 7" INTEGER, "Castle 8" INTEGER, "Castle 9" INTEGER, "Castle 10" INTEGER, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?" TEXT );