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Game Instructions: Better Equipment and higher Scholar of the Correspondence will improve the rewards here. You will always receive at least some research.


Challenge information

Broad, A Scholar of the Correspondence 5

  • 3 - tough (36%)
  • 4 - very chancy (48%)
  • 5 - chancy (60%)
  • 6 - very modest (72%)
  • 7 - low-risk (84%)
  • 8 - straightforward (96%)
  • 9 - straightforward (100%)

Broad, Watchful 175

  • 120 - very chancy (41%)
  • 149 - chancy (51%)
  • 178 - modest (61%)
  • 208 - very modest (71%)
  • 237 - low-risk (81%)
  • 266 - straightforward (91%)
  • 292 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Well, then...

Fully-formed research – partial proofs, theorems, references, conjectures, ideas – arrives at your laboratory, wrapped in brown paper and thrown over the transom. All of the material is at least interesting. Some is fascinating.

The Laboratory Research gain is logistic with ASotC as the input and scaled by Equipment:

Click here to see the exact research gains for Equipment 4, 7 and 9, or use the calculator for other values.

Equipment 4

ASotC1234567891011
Research22233334568
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research10121415161717171718

Equipment 7

ASotC1234567891011
Research4444556791114
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research17212426282930303131

Equipment 9

ASotC1234567891011
Research55566789111418
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research22273134363738393940

Rare Success

Well, then...

Fully-formed research – partial proofs, theorems, references, conjectures, ideas – arrives at your laboratory […] All of the material is at least interesting. Some is fascinating. And here – this handwritten note is downright alarming.

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Failure

Regrets

Your secretive collaborators respond with prolific, if unorganized, thoughts. Some of which you might wish you hadn't read.