Much like the first simulating challenge, the goal here is to produce a player on Geronimoo's simulator that beats all others. Okay, first of all, here's the Kingdom:
Alchemist, Fortune Teller, Hamlet, Harvest, Horse Traders, Outpost, Potion, Saboteur, Smithy, Vault, and Watchtower
Now, unfortunately there are a couple of problems with simulating this set, mostly all dealing with the choice card, Hamlet. So some strategies, probably those dealing with Watchtower mostly, aren't going to do so well in the simulator. Feel free to discuss that in your comments/solitaire it - I like being able to point out the sim's limitations even while acknowledging that it's an immensely useful tool. In that vein, in the game I played with this set, I went in with one strategy (basically Big Money w/Vaults) and ended up playing a different one (Big money with a lone smithy) based only on the money I got hand-to-hand. I think this was more or less the right call (except that maybe those hamlet/watchtower/x deals could have been really strong). But beyond this, I'd like to add a couple more wrinkles: Firstly, encouraging opening/strategy discussion in general, like in Opening of the Day. Secondly, I'd like to make this a double challenge - part A without colonies, and part B with. This will help us (and especially me - Platinum and colony are some of my worst cards) learn about how much the presence of these super-important cards affect the game and what strategies are king.
I'm going to try to come up with bots for this setup in a bit, but I wanted to get this up while I had a little free time