Artificial Intelligence

you're welcome.

at the start of each game each computer player will pick the number of its coins by choosing a random number between 0 and 3.

you'll need some way to determine player guess order for each round. for each round there will be an array that will store the numbers chosen by previous players and you can store the numbers using the index of the player that made that choice. all the computer players will have access to that array so none of them ever mention a duplicate. if the human player picks a duplicate, they lose and you can retrieve the player that previously made that choice.

each computer player will also contain its own private array that will contain the possible total number of coins. so, if there are 7 other computer players and 1 human and the 8th computer player has picked 1 coin, that computer player's private guess array would contain the numbers 1,...,25.

the computer player will pick a number (chosen at random) from that array. numbers already guessed can be removed from each computer array.

however, if a computer player picks a number is less than 3 and there are still choices of 3 or greater, the computer player will pick another number from their choice array until they pick a number 3 or greater.

the computer arrays may be updated if any player guesses a number less than 3. in that situation, everyone knows that player has, at most, the number of coins he guessed. so, for example in the situation described above, if the human player guesses 1, all the computer arrays will update their possible guesses from their number plus 1 to 21+ their number +1.

does the game end when the human player is out or do the computer players continue until there is a loser?

are bum calls allowed?

Daniel Rappaport wrote:
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> Hello!
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> I was wondering if it was possible to utilize Action Scripting as a way to
> program artificial intelligence right into Flash?
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> Any instights would be great.
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> URLs to sites that do this would be awsome as well.

what kind of AI?? The A* pathfinder algorithm is available in
ActionScript, I know that. Don't know about any others though.

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