riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 1084
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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1084 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 26 | 31 | 0 | 0 | If I "forfeit" some battles, I can focus my forces on the battles I choose to take. I can feasibly win with four battles if I take castle 9 and forfeit 10, but I could instead to forfeit 9 & 10 and win with five castles total: 8, 7, 6, 4, 3 (one might also replace "...4, 3" with "...5, 2"). To win with 6 castles, forfeiting castle 6: Castles 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 1. Another option is to forfeit castle 7 as well, again winning the war with 6 castles: Castles 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Lastly, if I wanted to win with 7, I'd need to win all the castles from 1 to 7. These are somewhat minimalist answers, as I tried to forfeit the highest-valued castles possible. I chose to go with castles 8, 7, 6, 4, and 3, but I tried to avoid multiples of 5, since I suspected them as likely answers from other submitters, and ties on castles 6, 7, or 8 should result as a loss for my battle plan. 0 on 10, 0 on 9, 31 on 8, 26 on 7, 21 on 6, 0 on 5, 11 on 4, 11 on 3, 0 on 2, 0 on 1. |