riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3: 1118
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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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1118 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | With the notable exception of the linear deployment strategy ( distribute more troops linearly over increasing castle value), almost every strategy depends on securing 2 - 3 spots in castles 6 - 10, and then 2 - 3 in 1 - 5. My strategy should scoop the ignored castles in 6 - 10 and sweep castles 1 - 5 on average. Most pick-4 strategies (where you try to perfectly distribute on 4 castles to hit >=28 points, e.g. 10, 9, 8, 1 or 10, 9, 5, 4 etc) will lose to this strategy by virtue of not allocating enough to secure their least valuable, but critical castle. The pick-4 that my strategy is most vulnerable to (10, 9, 8 ,1) is also likely the least common because of how precarious it is to try to take all 3 of 8 - 10 given those are critical for other pick-4 strategies). 7 is the deployment number for 6 - 10 to counter people who might arbitrarily station 5 at each one and the people putting up 6 to counter that. |