riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 373
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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373 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 21 | 22 | 26 | 1 | 1 | Sounds like an allegory for the Electoral College. The goal isn't to win the most points, but rather to find the most efficient way to 28 points. All troops headed for a losing castle are "lost votes" while castles won by more than one troop result in "wasted votes." By yielding Castles 9 and 10, you can minimize losses and guarantee wins at castles by assigning a slightly larger amount of troops to castles than what would correlate to the castle's approximate overall value. |