riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 1250
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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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1250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 24 | 0 | 26 | 28 | 0 | I decided to ignore ties, since any strategy depending on that relies too much on precisely predicting the opponent's strategy. Given that, winning requires winning a minimum of 4 castles with a minimum value of 28. Thus, the objective was to target only this minimum threshold and not allocate any resources to back-ups, contingencies, or disrupting the opponent's strategy. This means assigning soldiers to four towers, and 0 to 6 others. The 10 tower was ignored because it opens up so many options for winning, which also presumes that it will be contended for often. Thus the scenario of taking towers 9, 8, 6, and 5 was chosen. From there, the soldiers were nearly evenly distributed, with a slight bias toward the higher value towers. |