CLI tool to measure the state of your luck at the moment.

Before any important move in your life, you should first consult this tool to see if the timing is right. You can even execute other commands only if your luck is effectively above average.

$ npm install lucky -g

$ lucky --help

  Usage: lucky [options]

  CLI tool to measure the state of your luck, at the moment

  Options:

    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    -o, --opponents <n>    Number of opponents competing [default 1]
    -r, --rounds <n>       Number of rounds simulated [default 100]
    -C, --no-colors        Do not use fancy colors in output
    -v, --verbose [level]  Verbosity level (0-4) [default 1]
    -s, --silent           Alias for --verbose=0
    -n, --number           Output only the luck number
    -8, --eightball        Transform into a magic 8-ball

  Exit code:

    Exits successfully only if luck is above average

Minimal verbosity, just show me my luck

$ lucky
Your luck is 8% above average

Include the data behind that luck

$ lucky -o 2 -r 100 -v 2
You won 32 out of 100 rounds against 2 opponent(s)
Your luck is 4% below average

Include the winner of each round

$ lucky -r 5 -v 3
Round 1
-> The winner is CPU 1
Round 2
-> The winner is Human
Round 3
-> The winner is CPU 1
Round 4
-> The winner is CPU 1
Round 5
-> The winner is CPU 1
You won 1 out of 5 rounds against 1 opponent(s)
Your luck is 60% below average

Include the score of each player on each round

$ lucky -r 3 -v
Round 1
-> Human scored: 111
-> CPU 1 scored: 166
-> The winner is CPU 1
Round 2
-> Human scored: 143
-> CPU 1 scored: 112
-> The winner is Human
Round 3
-> Human scored: 178
-> CPU 1 scored: 127
-> The winner is Human
You won 2 out of 3 rounds against 1 opponent(s)
Your luck is 33% above average

Execute different commands depending on whether luck is above average or not

$ lucky -s && echo "Buy a lottery ticket" || echo "Go watch TV"
Go watch TV

Pretend to be a Magic 8-ball

$ lucky -8
Definitely!
$ lucky -8
Nope

Log you luck, add it to a cron and then you can make charts and whatnot

$ echo `date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` `lucky -n`% >> ~/luck.log

It simulates a match against opponents and compares your win-rate against the expected average.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Ariel Flesler

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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