Tag: Pokémon
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Recently I’ve been spending my spare time doing two things: solving cryptic crosswords and playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The next logical step, then, is to try my hand at compiling my own cryptic crossword themed after the game!
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Pokémon Gold and Silver‘s roaming legendary beasts move randomly from route to route instead of sticking to a fixed habitat. By analyzing their behaviour using the math of random walks on graphs, I can finally answer a question that’s bugged me since childhood: what’s the best strategy to find a roaming Pokémon as quickly as possible?
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Pokémon Gold and Silver introduced the roaming legendary beasts: three one-of-a-kind Pokémon that move from route to route instead of sticking to a fixed habitat. Catching a roaming Pokémon amounts to winning a graph pursuit game — so what can we learn about it from the latest mathematical results?
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