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Container Arrangement Toolkit
A special calculator for planning where you will place the containers!
The FLL game planners love to do this: they often make a few of the challenges mutually exclusive - if you do one, you can’t do the others. For this year’s Cargo Connect challenge, the constraints are on the containers.
Each team gets 8 containers (3 in home, 1 on the cargo plane, 3 in sorting center, and 1 in unused capacity). By collecting and placing these in the various destinations, you can get points... BUT each container can only end in one location so you have to be strategic on where you place the containers.
Containers
Use this table to fill in an Ending Position for each container.
Click this button to get started:
Clear Ending Positions for Containers
Name
Starting Position
Ending Position
Container Score
Grey container 1
Home
West Deck
30
Grey container 2
Home
West Deck
30
Grey container 3
Home
Trains
20
Grey container 4
@M03 - Unload Cargo Plane
Trains
20
Blue container unhinged
@M10 - Sorting Center
Blue circle
10
Orange container
@M10 - Sorting Center
Sorting center
20
Green container
@M10 - Sorting Center
Green circle
10
Blue container (hinged)
@M02 - Unused Capcity
0
There are no rows in this table
140
Sum
Container Destinations
Where did your containers end up?
Based on what you select above, this table will track the inverse — i.e. which destinations have which containers in the end. This calculates the score for each destination, taking into account that some destinations have a max score (i.e. the M10 Sorting Center and the M15 Load Cargo destinations). Also the M16 Cargo Connect circles get a bonus for having containers and them, and two of the circle have a color match bonus as well. The Total Score is calculated below the table.
Name
Points per container
Destination scoring algorithm
Containers ending there
Destination Score
Containers Score
Trucks
10
Max score: 20
0
0
Trains
20
Max score: 40
Grey container 3
Grey container 4
0
40
West Deck
30
Max score: 60
Grey container 1
Grey container 2
0
60
Blue circle
10
+10 if at least one container
+20 if is in
@Blue container unhinged
Blue container unhinged
30
10
Green circle
10
+10 if at least one container
+20 if is in
@Green container
Green container
30
10
Black circle on west side
10
+10 if at least one container
0
0
Black circle with chicken area
10
+10 if at least one container
0
0
Black circle with logo
10
+10 if at least one container
0
0
Black circle on east side
10
+10 if at least one container
0
0
Sorting center
20
+20 if only is in
@Orange container
Orange container
0
20
There are no rows in this table
60
Sum
140
Sum
Total Score: 200
200
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