Hum, about 12 ? Probably at least 8, maybe up to 20, or even more, I don’t really know
One interesting point, it looks like there is one species, the Goojam, (or maybe 2 Goojam species), which always attacks, while all other species never attack. I.e.k only contains ones and zeros. This is not something I anticipated, it appeared when running my code, but it makes sense, so this might confirm the approach
My submission
BPGYHQ should be the set of 6 letters minimizing the probability of death
The letters, in increasing order of danger, are BPGYHQTSVINRDMKLOJUACWXEF, with BPGYHQTSVINRDMKLOJUACW (without XEF) being the solution maximizing the expected return, at least according to my models
If this is true, the pareto frontier is exactly the set of prefixes of this word, but since one can only submit one word for the bonus task, I will submit BPGYHQTS, a word of length 8 with a very low probability of death
It is remarkable to see that I find similar results to Yonge, despite having wildly different approaches!
So, how many species are there?
Hum, about 12 ? Probably at least 8, maybe up to 20, or even more, I don’t really know
One interesting point, it looks like there is one species, the Goojam, (or maybe 2 Goojam species), which always attacks, while all other species never attack. I.e.k only contains ones and zeros. This is not something I anticipated, it appeared when running my code, but it makes sense, so this might confirm the approach
My submission
BPGYHQ should be the set of 6 letters minimizing the probability of death
The letters, in increasing order of danger, are BPGYHQTSVINRDMKLOJUACWXEF, with BPGYHQTSVINRDMKLOJUACW (without XEF) being the solution maximizing the expected return, at least according to my models
If this is true, the pareto frontier is exactly the set of prefixes of this word, but since one can only submit one word for the bonus task, I will submit BPGYHQTS, a word of length 8 with a very low probability of death
It is remarkable to see that I find similar results to Yonge, despite having wildly different approaches!