riddler-pick-lowest/low_numbers: 70

This directory contains the data behind the puzzle Pick A Number, Any Number. A discussion of the solution is in the following week's puzzle.

Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/riddler-pick-lowest/low_numbers.csv

This data as json, copyable

rowid Your Number Show Your Work
70 1 It's the most optimal choice from a game theory perspective. It is the only possible number that wins assuming it is unique. If I had a second guess (I assume most of your readers know game theory and some will implement it as rigidly as I have) I'd say 6