It takes maybe six months of skipping tracks
Lol, I look forward to good results by the end of the year? Maybe not the best algorithm after all.
I personally don't have one particular way of discovering new music. It's a mix of suggestions from different apps or friends. Shazam during movies and TV also helps guide some discoveries. Also just clicking through a rabbit hole of suggestions and marking stuff you like for future digging.
Voyager is very similar to RIF. I'd recommend it highly.
As mentioned, the first outcome would end the game in turn 14 and also be impossible to place in the first phase of the game. The second solution comes closer but weighs heavily on getting two tile types to get there.
I just got the game and have been loving it but there are many more variables to solve this. Some examples are: group size, and random tiles drawn.
Gift of Gab / Blackalicious has always stayed positive and even have songs about coming up and having to change/adapt. Check 'em out!
The reddit API cost change that killed all popular third party apps.
Can we stop calling them settlers, they are invaders.