ask your neural network how much an intermediate state is worth in expectation and this turns out to be pretty good why don't we do this for every single problem well we do for this we do need a simulator so you may recognize that right here i said we consider all the possible actions that we have and for each action we know exactly what's going to happen this is only possible like in a board game it's not even possible in like a board game where you have a a die to roll or a card to draw anything that is random there there is a way to