Riddler - Solutions to Castles Puzzle: castle-solutions-4.csv

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Readers were asked to submit a strategy for the following “Colonel Blotto”-style game:

In a distant, war-torn land, there are 10 castles. There are two warlords: you and your archenemy. Each castle has its own strategic value for a would-be conqueror. Specifically, the castles are worth 1, 2, 3, …, 9, and 10 victory points. You and your enemy each have 100 soldiers to distribute, any way you like, to fight at any of the 10 castles. Whoever sends more soldiers to a given castle conquers that castle and wins its victory points. If you each send the same number of troops, you split the points. You don’t know what distribution of forces your enemy has chosen until the battles begin. Whoever wins the most points wins the war.

Submit a plan distributing your 100 soldiers among the 10 castles. Once I receive all your battle plans, I’ll adjudicate all the possible one-on-one matchups. Whoever wins the most wars wins the battle royale and is crowned king or queen of Riddler Nation!

The data includes all valid submissions, with solvers’ identifying information removed. The 11 columns represent the soldiers deployed to each of the 10 castles, plus a column where the reader could describe his or her strategic approach.

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Please see the following commit: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/commit/c3f808fda5b67aa26ea6fa663ddd4d2eb7c6187f

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13 rows where Castle 4 = 16

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Suggested facets: Castle 1, Castle 2, Castle 3, Castle 5, Castle 6, Castle 7, Castle 8, Castle 9, Castle 10

Link rowid ▼ Castle 1 Castle 2 Castle 3 Castle 4 Castle 5 Castle 6 Castle 7 Castle 8 Castle 9 Castle 10
66 66 10 0 0 16 0 20 0 25 0 29
123 123 0 1 1 16 19 2 2 2 33 24
156 156 0 0 0 16 19 23 23 19 0 0
211 211 0 0 0 16 21 1 1 1 34 26
407 407 5 5 10 16 16 20 25 1 1 1
457 457 0 0 1 16 1 24 1 28 1 28
537 537 1 2 1 16 16 1 28 1 28 6
545 545 1 1 9 16 20 20 1 1 1 30
644 644 1 1 13 16 2 21 21 21 2 2
682 682 4 8 12 16 20 0 0 0 20 20
801 801 0 0 10 16 0 20 25 29 0 0
808 808 0 7 11 16 0 0 0 0 35 31
866 866 6 4 9 16 10 12 14 8 10 11

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CREATE TABLE "riddler-castles/castle-solutions-4" (
"Castle 1" INTEGER,
  "Castle 2" INTEGER,
  "Castle 3" INTEGER,
  "Castle 4" INTEGER,
  "Castle 5" INTEGER,
  "Castle 6" INTEGER,
  "Castle 7" INTEGER,
  "Castle 8" INTEGER,
  "Castle 9" INTEGER,
  "Castle 10" INTEGER
);