by grant5
steveg700 wrote:
grant5 wrote:
steveg700 wrote:
adamredwoods wrote:
I think the "solved" idea stems from the steel/shipping strategy. But getting there is the variable part. Still a great game.
So perhaps "solved" in the same sense that Puerto Rico was long ago deemed "solved", which is to say nobody's still trying to figure out new winning strategies, but rather racing to compete in the accepted dominant strategy.
Not "solved" as in A Few of Snow's "Halifax Hammer".
No, that's just going to further confuse people.
A Few Acres of Snow is not solved, it has an exploitable flaw that makes it broken (another key term flung around when it shouldn't be). Another example of broken would be Caverna before the errata, as it had a combo that created an infinite loop.
Solved means mathematically solvable, as in there is a single best course that can be calculated perfectly every time. Games like tic-tac-toe and Connect Four have been solved.]/q\
Well, to me that sounds like splitting hairs over a term that has no authoritative definition in the context of board gaming (which is why the term seemed to elicit some confusion).
Games like LeHavre and Puerto Rico merely have dominant strategies, but there is still a lot of decision space within those strategies, and perusing one does not guarantee victory.
Sounds like what I said.
Did you miss the part where I directly contradicted what you said?