riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 1281
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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1281 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 35 | 2 | This layout beats a lot of typical strategies I could image: i) 10 on every city ii) 11-13 on most cities iii) linear weight on each city (proportional to city strength) iv) 34-33-33 on any 3 castles v) 40-30-30 or 35-35-30 on castles 10, 9, 8 We want to either just win a castle, or lose by a lot (so the opponent "wasted" a lot of troops). I'm guessing most people will weight castle 10 the most so deploying 2 there feels like it will either just win, or lose by a lot most of the time. |