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.

Correction

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

Data license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette

57 rows where Castle 4 = 8

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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
46 46 3 4 8 8 13 3 3 23 4 31
56 56 0 0 6 8 16 18 20 18 14 0
72 72 0 0 5 8 12 16 17 2 20 20
73 73 3 4 5 8 10 11 12 16 16 15
83 83 0 4 6 8 14 15 16 17 20 0
97 97 0 5 0 8 12 15 20 20 0 20
106 106 1 2 4 8 16 17 32 17 2 1
111 111 4 6 7 8 8 10 12 15 15 15
118 118 2 2 6 8 12 18 3 2 21 26
120 120 3 4 5 8 0 12 13 17 18 20
136 136 3 4 8 8 8 1 1 1 33 33
141 141 0 1 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19
152 152 3 3 4 8 8 14 15 19 13 13
185 185 0 4 6 8 11 0 15 18 18 20
190 190 2 4 6 8 10 14 16 18 0 22
226 226 3 4 5 8 10 13 15 20 20 2
234 234 0 1 7 8 9 15 6 6 28 20
278 278 2 3 6 8 12 22 6 27 7 7
287 287 1 4 6 8 5 12 16 7 20 21
296 296 3 4 5 8 11 14 15 19 19 2
306 306 0 5 6 8 1 20 40 20 0 0
322 322 4 4 5 8 10 14 15 2 19 19
327 327 1 3 8 8 5 14 14 13 14 20
332 332 3 6 7 8 2 13 15 1 33 12
349 349 1 5 1 8 1 14 1 20 25 24
364 364 3 7 7 8 4 13 16 19 22 1
370 370 3 4 5 8 15 25 40 0 0 0
383 383 1 5 5 8 10 11 13 13 15 19
390 390 5 7 0 8 5 14 13 17 12 19
414 414 2 3 4 8 10 14 16 2 21 20
420 420 1 2 4 8 10 13 14 13 18 17
445 445 4 4 5 8 10 12 16 18 20 3
531 531 0 0 6 8 10 12 16 17 16 15
540 540 3 4 0 8 0 20 0 30 0 35
541 541 0 0 3 8 12 16 25 20 12 4
552 552 1 1 1 8 9 14 17 22 20 7
608 608 2 3 2 8 10 13 15 17 17 13
613 613 3 4 6 8 9 18 21 10 10 11
642 642 6 6 7 8 10 25 35 1 1 1
653 653 3 0 6 8 15 22 4 3 31 8
658 658 1 2 12 8 9 13 14 9 18 14
722 722 3 4 6 8 10 17 24 28 0 0
737 737 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15
740 740 3 4 5 8 10 0 14 19 19 18
748 748 2 4 6 8 8 10 12 16 16 18
750 750 1 2 2 8 10 10 14 18 18 17
755 755 2 3 3 8 13 6 26 31 4 4
793 793 0 2 4 8 9 12 15 19 19 12
811 811 0 0 2 8 2 15 3 28 7 35
831 831 0 4 0 8 10 13 14 18 17 16
845 845 1 3 4 8 10 1 1 17 25 30
876 876 3 5 6 8 11 14 15 0 19 19
879 879 4 4 4 8 15 15 15 20 15 0
886 886 0 0 0 8 12 0 17 20 21 22
887 887 0 5 7 8 8 0 0 21 24 27
895 895 4 4 6 8 8 15 15 6 18 16
899 899 0 0 0 8 11 0 15 19 22 25

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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
);