Let's be friends :')

Loved your post, really enjoyed getting into the meat of it. I wanted to position mine to a layman, kept asking myself "can I explain this to my Dad?"

I think where the post falls short is the absence of a silver bullet that contestants can use to win the game sooner.

Thanks! Optimization was something I'd played with in previous rounds of coding up AYTO simulations, but not in the most recent version. (See the bottom section of this notebook [0]). There's also a very thorough treatment of the problem in a blog post from 2018 by SAS (the software company) [1]. It's surprising how many people have been drawn in by the allure of AYTO!

[0]: https://github.com/daturkel/pyto/blob/master/AYTO_S8.ipynb [1]: https://blogs.sas.com/content/operations/2018/08/14/are-you-...