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Achintya Gopal
[email protected]

Paul Watson
William Watson
Joshan Bajaj

600.120
Final Project

-------------------------------Extra Credit--------------------------------
Undo/Redo-
- our undo and redo commands work within only the same player's move

Hard AI-
- this AI takes into account the player to their left's stock pile
- depending on the difference between its and the left player's stock
  pile sizes, it will choose different strategies depending on how
  aggressive it needs to play
- the different levels of aggression dictates if the primary goal is to
  block their opponent or get rid of stock pile cards
- the strategies were developed by playing several Skip-Bo games with large
  number of players and seeing what went through each player's mind with
  each of their moves
- we tested the AI strategies in real life by having one player strictly
  play by the AI rules and he won consistently
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To Compile:
- enter command "make"

To Test:
- enter command "make test"
- extraneous output goes to mainTestOutput.txt

To Clean:
- enter command "make clean"

To Play:
- enter command "./SkipBo" (or "make play" to compile and play at once)
- starting new game:
  - enter difficulty level
  - enter number of players (including both humans and computers)
  - enter number of human players
  - enter size of initial stock pile
  - enter names for each human player
                                              <--------Build Piles--------->
                                      ------
                                      |?  ?|  ------  ------  ------  ------
                                      | ?? |  | 09 |  |    |  | 11 |  | 04 |
                                      | ?? |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
                                      |?  ?|  ------  ------  ------  ------
                                      ------     A       B       C       D



                      <-----------Your hand------------>    Your Discard Piles        05 <--Size of Stock Pile
                      ------ ------ ------ ------ ------     (empty at start)      --------
                      |    | |    | |    | |    | |    |    ---- ---- ---- ----    |      |
        Card value--->| 10 | | 06 | | 08 | | 04 | | 02 |    |  | |  | |  | |  |    |  SB  |
                      |    | |    | |    | |    | |    |    ---- ---- ---- ----    |      |
                      ------ ------ ------ ------ ------      6    7    8    9     --------
                         1      2      3      4      5                                 0
                                                          Paul
  - the number underneath each card slot represent the slot's unique index, the build piles in the center are the same (but with A-D)
  - to move, enter the index for the card you would like to move
             then enter the index for the card slot you would like to move to
  - press 'e' to exit
  - press 's' to save
  - press 'u' to undo a move
  - press 'r' to redo a move
  - only easy AI turns are printed to add extra challenge to hard AI
- loading game:
  - select load game and then play as usual
- help
  - show the rules of the game
- Note:
  [Powered by MathLens is an inside joke]