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DG

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« on: November 07, 2012, 07:14:00 pm »
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Scout has 1. Gold has 2. Caravan has 4. Tournament has 10. How many has Pirate Ship? Which Dominion card has the most?
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 10:12:34 pm »
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Are you sure Gold isn't three? If it's not, then I have no idea.
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 10:55:45 pm »
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Possession has the most?
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 11:12:32 pm »
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Pirate ship has: ____3____
The most: ______Silver_______
Source: dominion.isot ropic.org/gamelog/201211/07/game-20121107-201057-d15e36e4.html

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2012, 07:29:44 am »
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Possession has 6 if I've counted correctly. Gold certainly has 2. Tournament can actually be considered to have 11 (but don't get distracted by the 10 or 11 thing).
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2012, 09:02:52 am »
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If that's the limit of the ambiguity I have no idea, though my guess is

Pirate ship has (about): 12
The most (that I found): philosopher's stone or overgrown estate each with about 16

If this is right I'm not sure what you're counting for caravan, I only get 3
« Last Edit: November 08, 2012, 09:11:36 am by awdrgy »
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2012, 09:59:32 am »
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I think awdrgy has just about got it, but I'll leave it open for more people to look at and increase the counts.
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2012, 10:32:19 am »
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Do you have to look at the physical card to solve this?
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2012, 11:45:41 am »
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OK, I feel like I got it but I'm getting like 13 on Tournament. Though one might be considered non-standard.
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2012, 01:28:00 am »
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what?
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2012, 11:24:34 am »
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The solution is based on "words within words". Scout has out. Gold has go, old. Caravan has car, a, van, an. Tournament has to, tour, our, urn, name, a, am amen, me, men. If you use a scrabble dictionary I'm sure that you can find many more short words that are not in common usage. On that basis Pirate Ship has at least 14 and Philosopher's Stone at least 16.
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2012, 04:16:09 pm »
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Quote from: DG on November 11, 2012, 11:24:34 am
The solution is based on "words within words". Scout has out. Gold has go, old. Caravan has car, a, van, an. Tournament has to, tour, our, urn, name, a, am amen, me, men. If you use a scrabble dictionary I'm sure that you can find many more short words that are not in common usage. On that basis Pirate Ship has at least 14 and Philosopher's Stone at least 16.

Yep, speaking as a competitive Scrabble player you are correct.

Scout has ut - a note in the original Solfege musical scale.
Caravan has ava - a Scottishism meaning of/at all.

both are legal plays and are part of the memorized 2 & 3 letter word lists that competitive players tend to have memorized.
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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2012, 09:35:07 pm »
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Using SOWPODS (the scrabble word list used in most of the world (though not the US)) and the word "a" the counts are quite a bit higher:

scout: 3
gold: 2
caravan: 6
tournament: 18
pirate ship: 19


I wrote a program to do the counting. When I used a different list my counts agreed with DGs exactly (though again I missed the "a" in caravan)
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