This is a followup to the D&D.Sci post I made ten days ago; if you haven’t already read it, you should do so now before spoiling yourself.

Here is the web interactive I built to let you evaluate your solution; below is an explanation of the rules used to generate the dataset (my full generation code is available here, in case you’re curious about details I omitted). You’ll probably want to test your answer before reading any further.

Ruleset

Turtle Types

There are three types of turtle present in the swamp: normal turtles, clone turtles, and vampire turtles.

Clone turtles are magically-constructed beasts who are mostly identical. They always have six shell segments, bizarrely consistent physiology, and a weight of exactly 20.4lb. Harold is a clone turtle.

Vampire turtles can be identified by their gray skin and fangs. They’re mostly like regular turtles, but their flesh no longer obeys [...]

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Outline:

(00:37) Ruleset

(00:40) Turtle Types

(01:20) Turtle characteristics

(01:24) Age

(01:47) Wrinkles

(01:55) Scars

(02:04) Shell Segments

(02:17) Color

(02:31) Miscellaneous Abnormalities

(03:02) Nostril Size

(03:13) Turtle Weight

(03:30) Flesh Weight

(03:41) Shell Weight

(03:58) Mutation Weight

(04:17) Strategy

(04:26) Leaderboard

(04:31) Reflections

(05:51) Scheduling

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 9th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LDFAjLXDSWRpSgxj5/d-and-d-sci-the-mad-tyrant-s-pet-turtles-evaluation-and

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“D&D.Sci: The Mad Tyrant’s Pet Turtles [Evaluation and Ruleset]” by abstractapplic

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