Blotto Game

Picture a medieval castle under siege. The lord has one hundred soldiers. Five gates need defending. The enemy also has one hundred soldiers and will attack those same five gates. Here’s the catch: whoever puts more soldiers at a gate […]

Picture two generals staring at a map scattered with battlefields. Each commands exactly one hundred soldiers. The rules are brutal in their simplicity: whoever sends more troops to a battlefield wins it. Victory goes to whoever captures the most battlefields.