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It's definitely just about number of countries. It's a reasonable choice for a game in isolation but also it would be a lot more complicated to find distances o
by esrauch 3y ago
It's definitely just about number of countries. It's a reasonable choice for a game in isolation but also it would be a lot more complicated to find distances of a path that only passes through a list of countries (including convex countries, enclaves, etc).
By doing raw number of countries it only needs to know the abstract connectivity of countries for a classic path through a graph. It happens that under that metric Kuwait is never useful for a path since it only borders two countries which also border each other directly.
- hermannj314 3y agoSimilarily, getting from Delaware to Florida requires skipping South Carolina (on the usa puzzle). Now I know the rules. I've driven that route so many times but failed to get the optimum puzzle score. Good concept and makes you have to think more precisely about borders I guess.
- Fatnino 3y agoYou can skip both Carolinas if you want. Tennessee and Alabama will get you there in the same optimal number of steps.