Stochastic search

Stochastic search is a way of looking for the best answer out of a group of possibilities. It's like a game of guessing and checking. Imagine you're trying to find something hidden in your house. You can start by guessing which room it could be in. When you guess a room, you check it to see if it's correct. If it's not correct, you guess another room, and then check that one. You keep doing this until you find the thing you're looking for. Stochastic search works the same way, but instead of guessing rooms, it guesses different possibilities and checks to see which one is best.