Help to start a Yatzy game

[gasolin]

Hi

I like to start programing a game call Yatzy, its a dice game with 5 dice.

But I dont have a clue on have to make the code so it can recognize the dice to see if the player have 2 pair or 3 identical or a house with is 2+3 identical and so on...

I dont expected a full code, but only ideas how to make the recognize code.

 

[Zathras]

You could draw an old-fashioned flow chart and try to handle all of the various branches, but that will get messy in a hurry.

If I were doing it, I would probably write a series of functions to test for specific holdings. Assuming that you have defined a type to describe the dice, you would have a series of functions something like these:

function IsYatzy( dice:TDice ): boolean;
end;

function IsFourOfAKind( dice:TDice ): boolean;
end;

function IsFullHouse( dice:TDice ): boolean;
end;

etc.

then you would have a top-level routine to work you way down the list. Of course, if your version works the way Yahtzee does, just because you rolled a full house you may only be able to play three of a kind (or maybe just a pair). So it's not enough just to find the "best" hand, you have to find the best hand that can be played.