Cortical Scrub: One Turn Wonder
Created by Scott Dickie
It has been a very gruelling match for you, the honorable Corp. That
lowlife Runner has brought you down to the wire. The score is 0-6, you
are losing. Somehow you've managed to get to the last card in your R&D
without anyone winning (for any one of a number of reasons, it doesn't
matter which). As you start what will be your final turn of the game, you
draw your last card, bringing the number of cards in your hand up to 6.
You eye the Runner's cards on the table: full icebreaker suite, several
good money cards, ample tag protection and linkage. Then you examine your
own side of the table: not a single card installed! Most of your deck is
in the Archives. It doesn't look good. Then, in an explosion of intuition,
it dawns on you. You can still get out of this with a win, and all in this
last turn of the game!
The challenge to this puzzle is not to figure out how you can win (by
scoring at least 7 agenda points) in one turn, but how to do it while requiring
the lowest possible number of bits with which to pull it off. You are starting
with 0 agenda points (you have not scored any agendas), nothing installed,
no possibility of tagging and/or bagging the runner, anything you want
in your Archives, no cards left in R&D, 6 cards in your HQ, and the
following additional restrictions:
Beginners Level:
No additional restrictions. You can have any 6 Corp cards you want
in your hand, and any number of each card.
Intermediate Level:
You can have any 6 Corp cards in your hand, but only one of
any given card.
Advanced Level:
You can have only one of any given card, and those cards can
be any Corp cards except Tycho Extension.
Once youhave solved each level, see if you can do it again with fewer
bits to start with. The best I've been able to come up with is a minimum
of 13, 20, and 22 bits for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels,
respectively. (In my 22 bit Advanced solution, I still had 9 bits left
over! Can you match that?)
Created on: August 1, 1998
Last updated on: August 1, 1998 |
Created by: Scott Dickie <codeslinger@mail.com>
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