Rock. Paper. Scissors.

vaaaska

Scissors.

😃

piersk

Rock. Ha!

dalecosp

Gorilla.

vaaaska

dalecosp wrote:
Gorilla.

Gorilla hurls rock. Winner, Gorilla.

Next.

dalecosp

Heh, heh.

I don't know about where you live; 'round here there a variant called "Gorilla - Man - Gun". Gorilla beats Man, Man beats Gun, Gun beats Gorilla. Not so easy to play (entire upper body is involved), but funny "new" twist.

Incidentally, vaaska, how were you planning on doing this on a forum? I'd think it'd be better on IRC . . .

vaaaska

goldbug

A pair of scissors made from ore wrapped in paper!

dalecosp

Instruction/warranty sheet for Wilma Flintstone's dressmaker shears?

Merve

Now we wait for someone to code rock-paper-scissors in PHP.

I don't know if any of you have played rock paper scissors as a kid and a guy would be an asshole and say 'dynamite!' and say it beat everything. That inadvertently led to black holes which sucked up dynamite, big birds which plugged black holes, and dynamite blowing big birds to bloody smithereens...

Scissors. 😃

vaaaska

Merve wrote:
Now we wait for someone to code rock-paper-scissors in PHP.

Not that I have time to do it now, but I did map something out the other day. One of these fast notebook exercises. If you see the image I posted you could probably get the gist of where I'd like to go with it. 😉

Of course, I mean it all as a big joke. I love how companies say they have excellent communications skills when you know that everybody is fighting for dominance via all the usual spiteful methods. And then, some random decision is made in the end under duress of the deadline.

Weedpacket

1st guy: Yeah, give 'er a bit of that, mate!
2nd guy: PPPPPPpppppptttttt!!!!

JoWiGo

I've been in a rock paper scissors tourney in a forum before... there was one guy hosting it and everyone sent him PM's with their choice, a backup choice, and another backup choice. The host randomly pitted people against each other and in case of a tie went to the backup choices. It was pretty fun, he did one round a day so it got nerveracking.

Weedpacket

Your challenge is to write an object that plays Rock-Scissors-Paper. It's to implement the following interface (I'm using an interface for your edification. I'd prefer PHP5 code, but PHP4 will be acceptable.)

interface RSP_Player
{
/* A "Game" is played against one other player. The number
   of rounds is specified in advance. This method will be called
   before each game, so do any pre-game initialisation here.
   (This is different from constructing a new player, as a "best-of-three"
   model might be used between each pair of players. You will be able
   to retain state for the three games.)
*/
public function new_game($rounds);

/* Called once per round. The return value should be one of the define()d
    constants ROCK, SCISSORS, or PAPER.
*/
public function play();
/* Called once per round; $rsp will be one of ROCK, SCISSORS or PAPER,
   and will be what the other player just played.
*/
public function outcome($rsp);
}

You can give your player as much intelligence as you like, load it down with whatever applications of game theory you reckon are suitable. Tournament structure is yet to be determined, as is the number of rounds played per game.

vaaaska

Weedpacket wrote:
Your challenge is to write an object that plays Rock-Scissors-Paper. It's to implement the following interface (I'm using an interface for your edification. I'd prefer PHP5 code, but PHP4 will be acceptable.)

You can give your player as much intelligence as you like, load it down with whatever applications of game theory you reckon are suitable. Tournament structure is yet to be determined, as is the number of rounds played per game.

Honestly, if somebody does write something up I would be very happy to add graphics and put it onto a website for public consumption. And if allowed, I'd like to give it an insane backwards business related spin if it can be pulled off.

Like, it could be framed in the context of users entering in their solutions to a problem and then duke it out for a winner. You see, a more effficient way to make decisions!!!

It would be even more cool if you could have an additional option to allow for random (on top of the existing randomness) cheating. This could be visualized by a middle finger action instead of rock, paper, scissors. Like a wild card...

Weedpacket

Interesting thought ... how would one "cheat" in this context?

if($player_1->wantstocheat())
{
  if(rand(0,100)==0) // Let player 1 know player 2's choice, and ask player for their new choice
  else
  // Scream to the world "PLAYER 1 WANTS TO CHEAT!" and player 2 wins.
}

vaaaska

Weedpacket wrote:

Interesting thought ... how would one "cheat" in this context?

if($player_1->wantstocheat())
{
  if(rand(0,100)==0) // Let player 1 know player 2's choice, and ask player for their new choice
  else
  // Scream to the world "PLAYER 1 WANTS TO CHEAT!" and player 2 wins.
}

I did think about this for about 10 seconds after I postsed that. And the answer was make things more complicated but resembling real life.

Have a login system (using cookies) and track the games and numbers of times a person has won. The more they play, the more they win, the higher their number goes. Somehow, this could be related to the cheat function - if their number was high enough AND the cheat came up randomly (once again based upon their number) THEN they would get the auto-win.

Because, we all know there are people around the office who have experience winning any kind of duel. And it's because they are experienced at getting their own way.

Oh, perhaps have a cry-baby mode as well? Ok, I'm not sure what this would invovle but you get the gist. Cry-baby mode would certainly have to override any kind of victory (cheat or not) but only AFTER the original victory has been awarded. Oi vey, because then we'd need to track the number of cry-baby wins as well - after a certain number of cry baby wins though you get a negative rating which makes it much more difficult for a person to win at all.

Does that help make it clear? Probably not... 😉

Drakla

I also want to see fatalities and dragon punches.

Weedpacket

I was thinking of adding post-match litigation and pre-match drugs testing.

vaaaska

Right on! I'll apply for a grant from the EU to get this thing built by 2010.

Oh, oh, oh...you would need to have both valid and invalid drug testing. You know, like the French lab that mysteriously figured out Lance Armstrongs DNA signal but at the same time says they aren't 100% sure it's him.

BuzzLY

I think there needs to be a new reality show. There could be interviews, and they could show us the players training. They could build a whole series around the champion, including the things he does when he's not competing. It would be like watching a reality show about boxers, only they are RPS players. That would rock (pun intended)!