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Monte Carlo Tree Search for Railroad Ink

In a recent post I looked at the game “Railroad Ink” and how applying a backtracking algorithm to it. Then I have written another post about refactoring that into a tree search library and also have applied a random walk algorithm to Railroad Ink. Then in yet another post I have implemented Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) and applied it to Tic-Tac-Toe. This algorithm is now also part of the tree search library and can be applied to Railroad Ink. That is what I am going to do in this post.

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Backtracking in Railroad Ink

One of my favorite board games is “Railroad Ink”. One has to build a rail and road network on a square grid using the building blocks shown on dice. During the game, my player mat looks like this:

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