riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 1207
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/riddler-castles/castle-solutions.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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1207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 0 | 0 | *There are 55 total points, so we are trying to figure out the path to 28. How can we do this in the smartest way? *Let's think about where we can concede points and hopefully make our archenemy overpay. *In strategy games like this, the extremes tend to draw the majority of the attention, so we will immediately concede 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10. *This leaves me with 100 soldiers to allocate towards 4-8. *Assuming the archenemy has some sort of distribution weighted towards the more valuable castles (unfortunate we do not know anything more about their mindset!), we will need to allocate more soldiers towards 8 than 7 and more towards 7 than 6, etc. *Side note* I could have cheated a bit here, because the question at the end says "Whoever wins the most wars wins the battle royale and is crowned king or queen of Riddler Nation!" so logically I could just aim for winning Castles 1-6 assuming each of those is a "war" and disregarded the "point system" =) |