riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3: 360
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/riddler-castles/castle-solutions-3.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? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
360 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 | There are 55 points available for capture. The first to 28 points wins. No one can win unless they capture AT LEAST 4 castles. Most people would likely try to capture the most valuable castles first and weight their troops towards those objectives. But those who spend 50ish troops on castles 9/10 only have 50ish troops to spend on the remaining 8 castles, needing to win at least 9 points, between those 8 castles. I could see a 2, 7, 9, 10, strategy working well enough compared to last year's 4, 5, 9, 10, meta. By all but abandoning 9 and 10, i should like take the other 8 castles in most scenarios mainly due to the fact that the enemy had no more troops to spend. I put substantial enough troops in each castle that no one can steal cheap points without investing a fair amount into those castles in the first place. Against last year's winners, I would have won: Vatter: 36-19 Winder: 33.5-21.5 Shafer: 36-19 Schmidt: 35-20 Trick: 36-19 |