Cactpot Solver

There are many "optimal" card solvers available on the web. These solvers normally look for the highest *average* payoff, meaning that they tend to recommend the safest line. Our solver is different - instead of trying to figure out the safest line, it finds the line with the highest chances of paying off big, and tries to provide good suggestions for finding that line with the three scratches you get for each card. It is fast, non-recursive, and most importantly, makes different recommendations than the typical online solver.

Results are of course not guaranteed, cactpot is after all a game of chance and luck! Try this solver instead of, or alongside of, a web solver, and see if you'd do better with it. I do not claim that it will always win, nor will it always break even, but it should do as well as the other solvers, and more importantly, it should make *different* recommendations that are usually better.

This app was written using the open-source Qt Android libraries (www.qt.io) and the source code is available under the GPL v3, in GitHub at: https://github.com/browren/cactpot-solver

Authors:
Ben Romer
Louise Champ