riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3: 719
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3.csv
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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719 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 1 | 1 | Starting with the goal of reaching 28 points, I went with a balance of offense and defense. The distribution I was shooting for was winning 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Leaving 9 and 10 pretty much open would let my opponent waste much of their capitol on those, leaving only 8 and 5 as 'battles,' but ones in which my opponent would have less to spend. Seeing the distributions of the previous 2 rounds, 6 and 7 seemed pretty safe, so I spent my soldiers on 5 and 8, leaving token 1's to leverage against random strategies with zeros. |