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Blooki's Puzzle #1 - Sad Saboteur
Blooki:
This one is quite the doozy. I reserve the right to keep amending the constraints to redirect people towards the intended spirit of the puzzle.
Our Villain and our Hero are playing a two-player Dominion game and our Villain has our Hero right where he wants him. After playing several other cards, our Villain plays Throne Room-Saboteur sabotaging your lone Province to pulp, but failing to sabotage ANYTHING else. Dejected, our Villain immediately ends his turn. Our Hero looks down at his hand and sees 4 Estates and a 5th card and then proceeds to end and win the game, to our Villain's absolute horror. What's the highest VP total our Hero can end the game with?
All mats are empty. There are no tokens or duration cards currently in play. There are no Islands set aside. There are no Bridges, Universities, Jesters, Masquerades, Black Markets in the kingdom. There are no cards in the trash other than the Hero's Province. All rules of Dominion apply (i.e. 10 kingdom cards --- 2 of which are TR & Saboteur, 10 copies of each fewer than 3 empty piles to start Hero's turn, at least 7 Coppers & 3 Estates in Hero's deck).
By my estimate, my initial solution is 472 VP. I'm sure there are mistakes in my solution, but I think the ballpark should be around there.
Hint #1: What card can interact with Saboteur?
Hint #2: My intended solution involves an attack card as the 5th card accompanying the Estates.
Thisisnotasmile:
Note: When this was posted, the puzzle involved having only 1 card in hand due to double-torturer and and being KC-KC-KC-KC-Sab-Sab-Sab'd, which hit absolutely nothing in your deck. All 3 of these cards had to be in the kingdom, leaving space for only 7 others.
The hero's deck contains 7 Vineyards, 10 Cellars, 9 Chapels, 9 Moats, 9 Courtyards, 9 Pawns, 8 Secret Chambers, 8 (+3 starting) Estates, and any number of Coppers. He holds a Potion in his hand. He buys a Vineyard to end the game on piles (Vineyards, Cellars, Estates). He scores 54/3 x 8 = 18 x 8 = 144 for Vineyards. 11 for Estates. Grand total of 155 VP.
Obviously, I've just picked the first 7 $2-cost actions from the card lists on DominionStrategy.com. These could be any $2-cost actions.
Alternatively He's already got an arbitrary number of VP tokens from past Monument plays and so there is no limit to the solution
These solutions assume a 2 player game.
Blooki:
--- Quote from: Thisisnotasmile on July 28, 2011, 06:06:58 am ---The hero's deck contains 7 Vineyards, 10 Cellars, 9 Chapels, 9 Moats, 9 Courtyards, 9 Pawns, 8 Secret Chambers, 8 (+3 starting) Estates, and any number of Coppers. He holds a Potion in his hand. He buys a Vineyard to end the game on piles (Vineyards, Cellars, Estates). He scores 54/3 x 8 = 18 x 8 = 144 for Vineyards. 11 for Estates. Grand total of 155 VP.
Obviously, I've just picked the first 7 $2-cost actions from the card lists on DominionStrategy.com. These could be any $2-cost actions.
Alternatively He's already got an arbitrary number of VP tokens from past Monument plays and so there is no limit to the solution
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Not bad. My solution is different, though you've touched upon a very key cog in my solution. I haven't tallied the points of mine yet.
Regarding your second statement, there is a limit to the solution because I stipulated no tokens prior to the start of our Hero's turn.
Thisisnotasmile:
Ah. No tokens in play. I thought we were talking trade route/embargo. My mistake.
I also might have thought of a way to improve on my solution, will add it up and post it up if it is better.
Edit: Actually, I don't think that's worth pursuing because I was thinking of having something like Shanty Town in my hand to start, and playing a lot of my $2-cost actions before buying a load more, and already having the whole Vineyard stack. However that means I've got 1 less $2-cost stack to play with. It MIGHT be possible to get over 57 actions this way, but it's going to be a lot more long winded than I first thought.
Blooki:
--- Quote from: Thisisnotasmile on July 28, 2011, 06:18:05 am ---Ah. No tokens in play. I thought we were talking trade route/embargo. My mistake.
I also might have thought of a way to improve on my solution, will add it up and post it up if it is better.
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I'm merging our solutions. Hope you don't mind. :) I didn't think of Vineyards at all.
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