Instructions:
In the year 2030, SpaceX has mastered interplanetary spaceflight. In this adventure, Elon Musk and his fleet of Falcon Heavy rockets are travelling to a new alien planet. However, the inhabitants of this alien planet are unwelcoming, and have mastered the ability to create black holes around its home planet to deter new visitors.
The SpaceX Rockets game is a two player game. Here, one player (the aliens) puts three black holes in the gravitational field, while the other player (SpaceX) can fire 5 Falcon Heavy rockets and has to get the closest possible to the alien planet. The last black hole that is placed is a super black hole and increases in size/gravitational pull during each round of SpaceX rocket launches. The final score is a normalized value that captures how close the rockets were to the alien planet. The final score range is [0,100], with 100 representing a rocket that landed on the alien planet, and the decreasing scale from 100 representing how far away the rocket ended up from the alien planet.
Credits: Adapted from "Gravity" by Team Sacrebleu (A. Sablayrolles, Y. Wang) for Heuristic Problem Solving, Professor Dennis Shasha, New York University