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Ruby Mastermind Game

Steve Jones

10/30/2008 6:44:00 PM

Hi all,

Im really stuck with a project. I need to create a mastermind program
using ruby. The details are in the following link;

http://cs105.updatelog.org/2008/10/09/lab-8-branches-and-loops-part-ii...

It is exercise 2 at the bottom.

Any help or sample code would be great

Cheers!!
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4 Answers

Lloyd Linklater

10/31/2008 2:41:00 PM

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Steve Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im really stuck with a project. I need to create a mastermind program
> using ruby. The details are in the following link;
>
> http://cs105.updatelog.org/2008/10/09/lab-8-branches-and-loops-part-ii...
>
> It is exercise 2 at the bottom.
>
> Any help or sample code would be great
>
> Cheers!!

Well, you know how to get the random number, so that is easy enough.
You just store the last guess and if the new guess is closer to correct
than the last one, you are warmer. Continue until they get it right.
Going to 10k should be guessed in no more than 14 tries.
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Brian Candler

10/31/2008 3:35:00 PM

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Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> Well, you know how to get the random number, so that is easy enough.
> You just store the last guess and if the new guess is closer to correct
> than the last one, you are warmer. Continue until they get it right.
> Going to 10k should be guessed in no more than 14 tries.

I think he was asking about the Mastermind program.

However it's pretty much the same:

- make a 4-digit random number between 0000 and 9999
- in a loop:
- ask for a guess
- finish if the guess is completely right
- count how many digits are correct and in the right place
- count how many digits are correct but in the wrong place
- print the counts

You have a choice of ways to store the correct number. For example it
could be a 4-digit string: "1234". Then str[0,1] will extract the first
character, and str[3,1] will extract the last character, so you can
iterate easily enough to compare the characters.

You may find it easier to create a 4-element Array where each element is
an integer from 0 to 9. This is easy to manipulate. However the guess
that the user enters has to be converted into this form too.

I suggest you code it as far as you can, and put comments in (or dummy
method calls) for the bits where you are stuck.
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Todd Benson

10/31/2008 3:43:00 PM

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Steve Jones <ppksam14@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im really stuck with a project. I need to create a mastermind program
> using ruby. The details are in the following link;
>
> http://cs105.updatelog.org/2008/10/09/lab-8-branches-and-loops-part-ii...
>
> It is exercise 2 at the bottom.
>
> Any help or sample code would be great

You're probably supposed to learn / and % on integers, but you could
use Strings/Arrays too.

Todd

Todd Benson

11/1/2008 4:56:00 PM

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Steve Jones <ppksam14@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im really stuck with a project. I need to create a mastermind program
> using ruby. The details are in the following link;
>
> http://cs105.updatelog.org/2008/10/09/lab-8-branches-and-loops-part-ii...
>
> It is exercise 2 at the bottom.
>
> Any help or sample code would be great

Can anyone come up with a non-iterative solution (in Ruby code, I
mean)? I tried using Matrix with no success.

Todd