Question for CC: How do you actually go about solving a puzzle like this? pen and paper, some computer sim, real cards?
Over the summer, while I was doing a lot of Dominion puzzles, I imagined having simple software to help work out puzzles (those Procession chains...). People could potentially share log files easily to prove their solutions, and collaborate/tweak easily. There are huge classes of puzzles that would be more interesting with this sort of framework, e.g. "Empty provinces as fast you can with this Kingdom", "Gain as many points as you can on this turn, with this hand and deck". You could also make up new cards and play around with them.
But the UI seemed pretty tricky to get right, I knew it'd take a while, and I suspect interest levels are low (outside of CC), so it was more just an idea than anything I seriously considered creating. If I'm wrong and people would indeed like such a thing, and any CS-y people are interested in making it, we could start a separate thread to discuss (I have some ideas for how the design should go). I may be willing to help out with such a project in my spare time. If this happens, we can collectively destroy the tricky Guilds puzzles that I'm sure some of us will think up
I was wondering if you'd show up again.
Your heavenly presence beckons (and your camouflage is not sufficient to evade my attention)
To clarify: getting over 50 points in one buy means that one of my buys increases my score by over 50, not that I only use a single buy in the solution. In fact I use rather more than that (around 100 if you include Black Market buys).
Ah, I see. Seems very possible now.
But only for the celestial. And yes, my current solution does score well over 1000 points. I'll probably post it at the weekend once I've finished tidying it up.
Very excited and curious. You should share with me in advance, so I don't need to wait, haha.
I predict:
- Same kingdom as before, but with Black Market additionally.
- Solution is the same up to the playing of Peddler on turn 4.
If they both are true, it will be a crazy optimization feat.
But if either is not true, I'm more excited. The most natural thing to try to do would be to fit in a King's Court instead of Catacombs or Peddler, but I remember this being quite hard