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[gman314]

The following kingdom is the recommended set of ten "Victory Dance" from the Intrigue rulebook.
Bridge, Duke, Great Hall, Harem, Ironworks, Masquerade, Nobles, Pawn, Scout, Upgrade.

The challenge is not to play with that. The challenge is instead to play with the slightly modified version that I came up with.
Bridge, Crossroads, Duke, Great Hall, Harem, Horse Traders, Ironworks, Nobles, Tribute, Tunnel

Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to play a solo game with this kingdom and end the game in as few turns as possible. The game must end by three-piling. In fact, no Provinces may be purchased. The tiebreaker will be the number of points at game end. The winner gets 3 points, second place gets 2 and third place gets 1.

PM logs to me by Tuesday the 20th at midnight EST.

[zahlman]

How does Tribute work in a solo game? Do you discard from your own deck?

[DStu]

How does Tribute work in a solo game? Do you discard from your own deck?

yepp

[gman314]

There were 4 entries for this contest, and all were very close.

Here are the results:

I may as well post the 4th place as well, because I'm posting all the others. D Bo piled out the Crossroads, Ironworks and Great Halls in 12 turns.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/20/game-20121120-064540-babb12ba.html

In third place came Geronimoo who piled on Ironworks, Great Halls and Tunnels to end in 12 turns with 28 points.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/17/game-20121117-015325-ebdbd9d9.html

In second place, Rabid ran out the same piles in the same number of turns, but took second thanks to having one more point than Geronimoo.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/17/game-20121117-024636-7d92c3b4.html

And in first place we have thirtyseven who piled out the Crossroads, Ironworks and Great halls in 11 turns with only 12 points.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/20/game-20121120-112800-7ce44c3c.html

[gman314]

Thanks to all who participated! I'll probably post another closed-kingdom challenge soon.

[thirtyseven]

Hey, sweet, I won in the first solo challenge I tried! IW/GH is always fun to play. I think the difference between this game and the other contestants (including the other ones I tried, all ending in 12 or more turns) is the one Bridge (and I think more than one is suboptimal). It helps you take full advantage of the large hand sizes given by Crossroads. Thanks gman! Did you try this one at all?

[gman314]

I did. I was only able to get to 13 turns, but I didn't really try too hard.