riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3: 231
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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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231 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 4 | I need 28 points of castles to win. I started by thinking I would sacrifice 8, 9, and 10 because IF I could win the rest, I'd hit my 28. Recognizing that putting more troops in the remaining high value castles left the low valued castles relatively weak I decided to further reduce the troop deployment at the low end to slightly increase deployment in the 8pt castle. This is an interesting game because I need to decide which bucket of castles I want to commit to while leaving a token force at the rest. There's a subtle rock paper scissors element to this this game but with an extra depth of how sharp are your scissors, how heavy the rock, and how thick the paper. I'd like to know how viewing past battle strategies of winners affects this outcome. If the previous results weren't published, would this third round have a distribution of troops similar to the first round? |