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. |
26 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 25 | 0 | 35 | Castles 1-3 and 6-8 were the most ignored by the top 5 warlords in the last round. 4-5 and 9-10 were most popular. I figured if I can almost guarantee getting 10 by placing 35 soldiers, ignore 9 where most others will send a significant amount, capture 7-8 which look to be ignored by most, and capture 1-3 which will be ignored for low point value, I could total 31 points which is more than enough to win a majority of the battles. Maybe a simpleminded strategy but this is based purely off the results of the last round and it could be an obvious one. |
41 | 41 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 28 | 28 | Because I'm trying my best. |
55 | 55 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 33 | The top 3 castles score 27 points in total, almost 50% of the point total. Assuming I can win all 3 and pick up a single unguarded low point castle, i will prevail. |
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. |
67 | 67 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 35 | Because this is what my future self told me to pick. |
113 | 113 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | Just Cause |
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. |
161 | 161 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 31 | 31 | I anticipate a backlash against the deployment of troops to the highest castles given the data from the last war. Because of this, committing roughly a third of my troops to each of the three largest castles should overwhelm the majority of opponents. 8 has historically been one of the most sought after castles, likely being used to deny narrow strategies like mine a victory, so i will fortify it with an extra troop. Additionally, if i win 8/9/10, only one other point is necessary, and the first castle has been historically poorly defended. I send my final troop to the second castle, because someone who has committed more than 5 troops to the first is probably less likely to have fortified the second. |
169 | 169 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 26 | 34 | 0 | Clustered to win as many points against last time's winners. |
179 | 179 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 34 | 34 | |
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 | |
213 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 34 | Going big on castles 10, 9, 6, 3. It is designed to "just barely" win against what I figure is an average deployment. It matches up well with the top castles of Round Two but struggles against some of the top castles from Round One. As you might be able to guess, I don't expect people to go back to the Round One strategy. |
249 | 249 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 30 | You must win at least 28 points. Since the given strategy seems to be to avoid large commitments on 10, and attack 4,5, and 9, I chose to deploy my troops to 10, 8, 7, and 6 in large numbers, concentrating the rest on 3 to offset losing 1 and two. Its a high risk strategy, because losing just one of the higher values will result in a loss. |
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. |
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. |
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 | |
351 | 351 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 30 | 31 | 0 | 24 | I came up with about a dozen different strategies. Strategy A was an even distribution (10 per castle), B was weighted (2 for Castle 1 up to 18 for Castle 10); C was weighted to beat A-B, D could beat A-C, all the way until strategy O. After Strategy O, I couldn't make another distribution that could beat N plus the other ones I had already made. It's banking on chaos and people not wanting to overpay for Castle 10, thinking they can take Castles 6-9 for a little more points |
354 | 354 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 28 | 32 | 5 | 5 | Because I'm the Grandmaster. |
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 |
367 | 367 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 36 | |
370 | 370 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 30 | 32 | 14 | I wasn't really going for castle 10, but thought I would beat some people. I really wanted to pick up castle 8 and 9, so I put a lot of troops there. I thought I would pick up some easy points by not putting "0" in the early castles. I though people would waste a lot of troops on castle 5, based on last time, so I didn't put a lot there. |
391 | 391 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 31 | 0 | 1 | There are 55 points on offer. But you only need to win half plus 1 (.5 actually) My strategy was to secure the minimum points for victory by winning the 5 Castles. 8,7,6,5 and 2. Hopefully avoiding the high value castes will allow me to put more troops on lower values and win the war. Throwing 1 soldier to castle 10 in the event my opponent is thinking the same way. |
407 | 407 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 28 | I wanted to win 28 point by attacking as few castles as possible. By focusing as many troops as possible on castles 8, 9 and 10 and choosing a low value castle that people typically don’t commit many resources to, I hoped to win the majority of bouts. |
439 | 439 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 40 | Castles 3-7 are pretty lame |
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. |
467 | 467 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 39 | I started with the averages and the winners from the last 2 rounds. Then I tried to craft a few strategies: a few random ones, some crafted to specifically beat the winners, some crafted to take advantage of historically undervalued spaces between winners and averages, - with some variations on how little/much to put on some of the lighter weighted castles. Then I sat down and went for a hyper aggressive strategy that had a single path to 28 points and would defeat all of the above hahaha. And so we end up here, with a warlord who styles him/herself also as an edgelord, and possibly did not do enough to account for beating strategies that were previously losing. |
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. |
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. |
473 | 473 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 32 | 4-castle all-in no scouts. Relative value. My min allocation has to be > 10 to beat naive even split. My overpayment vs avg cost... I must win castle 9. The other castles I will overpay relative to my overpayment on castle 9. Castle 3 +7, castle 6 +11, castle 9 +18, castle 10 +14. You really have to beat my contested castles. Weakness is castle 3, but I’m at +7 and castle 6, +11. Beats all past winners. |
478 | 478 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 33 | 36 | |
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. |
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. |
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 |
512 | 512 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 | 27 | |
517 | 517 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | Only deploy to certain castles to win, hope to get lucky. |
519 | 519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 5 | |
524 | 524 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 32 | Way I figure it, the goal's to get 28 points. Minimum number of castles you can get that with is four. Best way to go about it is to abandon a couple of them completely so you can withdraw troops to ones that help the overall plan, while still targeting another lightly in the event that you lose an opening. Ergo, this. |
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. |
535 | 535 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 27 | 31 | 4 | 4 | Looked to see where the past winners had shifted their troops from game 1 to game 2. Identified 5, 7, & 8 as places to pick up points while also noticing that Castle 6 is under attacked by 7/10 past winners. My hope is that those who only send a very token force to 9 & 10 (2 or 3 seem the most common) will lose to my 4 troops, while not costing me very much on the 3 main ones I focused on. |
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. |
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. |
555 | 555 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | Sacrifices must be made! Castles 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 10 are dead to me! Going hyper-aggressive (but not the most aggressive strategy). Best Case: I win! Worst Case: I am a troll! |
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. |
561 | 561 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
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. |
565 | 565 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 27 | 6 | 34 | 5 | I picked something that would defeat the top 3 in both prior battles. I added one army in #1 to catch those with zero in #1, for a 9+7+6+5+1=28 win. I put five in #10 to catch those who put two to four in it. I think my most-likely wins will be 9+8+7+6, 10+9+7+6, 10+9+7+3, 10+8+7+6, 9+7+6+5+3, 9+7+6+5+1, 8+7+6+5+3. I will lose to anyone who is heavier in 10+8+5+4+2 or 10+8+5+4+1. |
570 | 570 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 36 | 0 | 31 | I think people are going for 9. Trynna lock down 8 and 10 and hope 7&3 are strong enough. |
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. |
600 | 600 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 23 | 27 | I didn't put much into the lower troops, but went bigger into high troops. Tried to eek out a win at Castle 1, but other than that I went low. |
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 |
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 | |
672 | 672 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 23 | 2 | 29 | All-in on 3,7,8,10 |
678 | 678 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | As I expect many to choose low troop numbers for the top castles, I deploy many soldiers there in order to hopefully take those three. After that, only one point is needed to win, so I chose to attack castle 10 in hopes that it is the least guarded. This appears to be a reasonable strategy based on the previous distribution. |
681 | 681 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 33 | Choose just a few castles and maximize the chances of winning those. |
713 | 713 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 40 | |
714 | 714 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 40 | Focus on getting required 28 points to win by targeting top tiers to make up bulk of points, and a few lower tier castles to add in just enough points. |
727 | 727 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 29 | 29 | To get more than half of the 55 total points, it requires 10+9+8+1 (28/55), thus, we should focus our soldiers most at the top three castles. The last point can come from any castle. Since it is likely that castle 7–being worth 7 points—will be paid attention to more than the castles lower than it, we should let that one fall. Since we only need one more point after assuming a win at 8-10, we should go for the lower castles. I believe, however, that many people will go after 1 strategically to get one last point, so I choose to go after 2, which tho it has more point value, might get raided less by those who are attempting a similar strategy to mjne. |
731 | 731 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 32 | 36 | |
735 | 735 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 43 | win 10/9 and two average others |
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. |
755 | 755 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40 | Only need 22.5 points to win. Figured 40 would win most of the time at 9 & 10, so I only need 3.5 |
759 | 759 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 31 | 24 | Magic |
766 | 766 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 30 | 30 | There is 55 points total. 28 is what you need to win. So win 10,9,8 and 2. Focus on the minimum amount of effort to win. Win by a little or a lot, a win is a win. |
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. |
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. |
818 | 818 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 34 | I don't want to lose any large castle by a narrow margin, as this would be a significant waste of troops. If I win a large castle narrowly, this is the best scenario, but an overwhelming loss is also acceptable (since it will cost my opponent many troops to achieve this, and therefore give me numerical superiority elsewhere). It's like the electoral college! In the previous rounds, players deployed troop amounts on the large castles that were either very small or very large. My strategy depends on my expectation that this pattern will repeat itself. I chose all of my troop placements with this in mind, determined not to lose any large castle narrowly against either of those strategies. I invested heavily into castles 9 and 10, expecting to win their points almost every time. If I win one or both of them narrowly, then this is a significant boon to my efficiency. If I win them overwhelmingly, this is not as good, but for 19 points I'm willing to take the risk. I expect to defeat most players who conduct a predictable attack on one or both of these castles. If I lose either of these castles after such a large investment then I probably lose the match. I expect to do well in castles 3, 6, 7, and 8. I'm vulnerable to opponents who attack three or more of these simultaneously with medium-sized forces while conceding castles 9 and 10, as some top finishers did in the first round, but it's a risk I'm willing to take. Any two of these mid-range castles, plus the 19 points above will give me the 28 points necessary for the win. Castles 4 and 5 seem to have been highly overvalued in the earlier rounds, so I did not contest them at all. I am hoping to take an overwhelming loss here against opponents who try this again. If I lose them narrowly, that's unfortunate, but it won't matter too much. My path to 28 points is fairly difficult to block even without them. |
820 | 820 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 32 | 10+9+6+3 = 28 and both 6 & 3 are not common choices in 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. |
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 | |
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. |
873 | 873 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 31 | 36 | Protect the bag |
890 | 890 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 50 | Forces concentrated on minimum four castles to win |
891 | 891 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 0 | Forces concentrated on alternative 4 castles to win |
894 | 894 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 33 | 0 | 5 | Give up 5 castles expecting to split points on some of them. Maybe get a cheeky 10 against similar strategies. |
896 | 896 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 23 | 0 | 27 | 31 | 0 | Go all-in on 4 castles that give just enough points to win (28), ceding the other 27 points’ worth. Stack a few more troops on the high value castles just because. |
899 | 899 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 22 | Nothing complicated - just based on past winners and seems like an even mix across the top castles may work. |
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