Penney's Game

Penney's game, named after its inventor Walter Penney, is a binary (head/tail) sequence generating game between two or more players. Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes. The player whose sequence appears first wins [Wikipedia].

Here we have a friendly clone of this game that I wrote during coronavirus quarantine days.

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• Download and install Python3.x (>=3.5)
  • Select Add to PATH option
  • Select Install pip option
• Download Version 0.4 or Latest Source
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt or pip3 install -r requirements.txt (Need root access)
• Run python3 setup.py install or python setup.py install (Need root access)

• Check Python Packaging User Guide
• Run pip install penney or pip3 install penney (Need root access)

• Run easy_install --upgrade penney (Need root access)

• Download Exe-Version 0.4
• Run Penney-0.4.exe

• Open CMD (Windows) or Terminal (UNIX)
• Run python -m penney or python3 -m penney (or run executable version)

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You can play Penney's game online in interactive Jupyter Notebooks via the Binder service! Try it out now! :

• Open Notebook.ipynb

Changes and improvements are more than welcome! ❤️ Feel free to fork and open a pull request.

Please consider the following :

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch (under dev branch)
3. Add your functions/methods to proper files
4. Pass all CI tests
5. Update CHANGELOG.md
   • Describe changes under [Unreleased] section
6. Submit a pull request into dev (please complete the pull request template)

Just fill an issue and describe it. I'll check it ASAP! or send an email to [email protected].

• Please complete the issue template

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1- Penney, Walter. "Problem 95: penney-ante." Journal of Recreational Mathematics 7 (1974): 321.

2- Zajkowski, Krzysztof. "Penney's game between many players." arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3973 (2012).

3- Guy, R. K., and John Horton Conway. Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Academic Press, London, 1982.

4- Humble, Steve, and Yutaka Nishiyama. "Humble-Nishiyama Randomness Game-A New Variation on Penney's Coin Game." (2010).

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