riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 1200
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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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1200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | There are 55 victory points available, so I need 28 to win. The smallest number of castles I can do this with are Castles 10, 9, 8 and any one of the others. In order to have a margin of error, I decide to target Castle 7 additionally and out of the "any ones", I target Castle 4. This way, I need three out of the four large ones plus Castle 4. I reckon Castle 4 will not be targeted so often, so I only go with 11 soldiers there, allowing me to beat an "evenly distributed" strategy. The large castles get 22 soldiers, beating any "target only the largest five evenly" strategy and even those that assign 21 soldiers to beat these. That leaves one odd soldier, who I send to the largest castle. |