一位原本加入土匪团伙的玩家，在一次“慷慨激昂”的演讲后，意外成为该团伙的首领，并被通缉。玩家需要在60天内，利用营地周围的资源进行狩猎和采集，收集足够的食物，并在赏金猎人到来之前，安全返回家园。游戏强调了资源管理和策略选择，玩家需要仔细规划路线，并考虑时间和资源的限制，才能成功逃脱。

🏕️ **意外成为首领并被通缉:** 玩家因一次演讲被误认为首领，并因此被贴上通缉令，成为赏金猎人的目标，需要在60天内逃离。

🔪 **资源采集与狩猎:** 玩家需要利用营地周围的资源进行狩猎和采集，收集足够的食物维持生存，并储备足够的食物以备返程之需。

🗓️ **时间限制与路径规划:** 玩家只有60天的时间来探索和利用资源，并且返程路径上没有补充资源的机会，需要合理规划路线和时间。

⚠️ **资源管理与策略选择:** 游戏强调资源管理和策略选择，玩家需要考虑时间和资源的限制，做出明智的决策才能成功逃脱。

💰 **赏金猎人威胁:** 赏金猎人将在两个月内到来，玩家需要在他们到来之前安全返回家园，否则将面临危险。

Published on November 11, 2024 4:59 PM GMT

The encampment is empty when you awaken. This isn’t necessarily a bad sign, as you weren’t sure you’d wake up at all: there were a lot of ways your fellow bandits could have taken your impassioned impromptu speech exhorting them to “be a bit more Robin Hood about the whole thing”, and departing in the dead of night was by no means the worst. Between your continued existence, and the surprisingly generous amount of weapons and ammo which were left behind with you, you find yourself feeling rather relieved, and even a little grateful.

These feelings last until you visit the nearest town – hoping to trade bullets for food and a ticket home, so you can forget this sorry chapter of your life – and notice WANTED posters featuring your face on every wall. Your brief and understandably tense interactions with the locals clarify that  you have been named as your erstwhile gang’s ringleader, that you are emphatically unwelcome in any of the shops in town, that a team of unstoppable mercenaries will be coming for you in a little under two months, and that “I assumed they were dashing desperados when I joined” is not typically considered an extenuating factor.

Your only remaining option is to forage for food and head home on foot, before the bounty hunters show up. Fortunately, your campsite was chosen for its closeness to an abundance of easy foraging sites, and you’ve already figured out how to safely and reliably preserve and prepare the ingredients sourced from them. Unfortunately, you were too busy cooking to help your fellow bandits forage^[1], so you have no idea which sites yielded which yields in what quantities; also, the only viable path back has no opportunities to replenish your stockpile en route.

You have sixty days to explore and exploit the sites around the encampment, hunting^[2] and gathering enough food to keep yourself alive, and stockpiling enough to reach safety before starving. Good luck!

Notes

This game shouldn’t take more than ~10min to play, runs in-browser, and is not intended to be replayed.Unlike in the classic bandit problem, outcomes can be affected by chronological effects and/or earlier choices. Figuring out where and how this happens is an intended part of the challenge.Data Science skills might be useful here, but will not be necessary.You are warmly encouraged to share and compare completed game records in the comments.Feedback, as always, is greatly appreciated.

1. ^{^}

   You’d originally thought they were asking you to be their chief, and by the time you figured out your mistake it was too awkward to back down.

2. ^{^}

   You are sufficiently well-armed that nothing you hunt will be able to harm you. Indeed – you consider, feeling your revolver in its place on your belt between your other revolver and your other other revolver – you could justifiably call your current predicament a multi-armed (ex-)bandit problem.

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