[flashingleds]

Author here. I really wasn’t very good at SPL-T before I changed gears to brute forcing it, so the whole strategy aspect is unexplored here. If you think you have a method that could be phrased in an algorithmic kind of way, please share! This topic is ripe for a more intelligent part 2, from me or someone else.

[TTPrograms]

This would be a good opportunity for something like Alpha Go. Learn a heuristic function and then do tree search using the heuristic. You could start by hand-designing a heuristic and do best-first search to see how much better you do versus exhaustive exploration.