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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles
« on: August 03, 2020, 04:48:48 am »Festival?Nope!
What about Marauder?Nope!
Festival?Nope!
What about Marauder?Nope!
Something's missing ...
Ah, here we go:
This quarantine - and not being able to play tennis - has made me rediscover old hobbies. According to this board, I haven't logged on here since 2014.
If you play mastermind1 on turn1...Yes. If we replace mastermind1 with a Throne Room, the Throne Room also stays out; Throne-type cards played on Durations stay out as long as the Duration. Similarly a Throned Archive keeps the Throne out until the Archive is used up, and a Throned Hireling keeps the Throne out forever.
then on turn2, use mastermind1 it to play mastermind2 thrice...
then on turn3, use mastermind2 to play mastermind3 thrice...
... is mastermind1 supposed to stay out until turn 4?
I know a throneroom variant stays out with the duration it's been played for, but in this case, mastermind1 wasn't played on mastermind3.
True, but it played mastermind2 which is still out (because it, in turn, played mastermind3). Since mastermind2 is still out, mastermind1 stays out.
Start the game with a cost-reducer in play so Young Witch can be its own bane!
Small Castle is “trash this or a Castle in your hand.” So I believe there are 4VP up for grabs.
It also gains you the other Small Castle, though. And Colonnade is when-buy, not when-gain.
I think this is another 2VP solution: with Cemetery and no gainers/buys, the only time you can gain multiple cards in a turn is to trash Haunted Mirror to gain Ghost.
Several Monument cards start the game with 12 VP chips on them, to be gained under certain circumstances. However, in some kingdoms it is impossible to gain anys.
Across all possible Kingdoms, what is the smallest non-zero maximum number of VP chips it is possible to gain off of one of these cards?Several Monument cards start the game with 12 VP chips on them, to be gained under certain circumstances. However, in some kingdoms it is impossible to gain any.
Across all possible Kingdoms, what is the smallest non-zero maximum number of VP chips it is possible to gain off of one of these cards?
Oh, for the 2p, 12VP puzzle, I can get it down to2VP by replacing Blessed Village with Cursed Village and putting two of Plague, Locusts, and Greed on the bottom of the Hex deck.
The quizzes have been updated with the Menagerie previews.
Mandarin
I may or may not have used regular expressions to solve this.
Ah, I wondered if there were some kind of thing like that. I checked all the card names one at a time. (I considered adding the extra challenge of trying to solve it from memory...)
There's actually a FOURTH card, though, that can similarly be completely expressed using the postal abbreviations for US states. But I doubt any computer program can find this one.
What card am I thinking of?
Did anyone ever solve the fourth card?
Mandarin
I may or may not have used regular expressions to solve this.
Yes.
Kingdom needs Black Market, Watchtower, Rogue, Mandarin, Storyteller, Capitalism
Mandarin in the trash. Deck: BM, Watchtower, Rogue, Storyteller. Capitalism bought.
Play BM
Play Storyteller
Play Rogue gaining Mandarin, trashing with Watchtower
topdeck Storyteller, BM, Rogue
draw Rogue, Storyteller, BM from Storyteller
And repeat.