MCBoarder289 / horses_game

Fun party game of chance involving simple probability and simulated horse racing.

Horses Game

Overview

Played a simple game of chance for multiple players that simulates horse racing. Believe this is called Quarter Horses, but thought it would be fun to try and program an interactive game.

Game Rules

Game involves everyone having a set amount of chips that fund the payouts, two dice, and a subset of cards (2s-Queens).

There is a set of 12 horses, each representing the sum of all possibilities of 2 dice rolls.

Game consistes of two major rounds:

All of the cards (or a subset if few players?) are dealt to everyone.

Initial round is an elimination round:

• A player rolls the dice.
• That number horse is now eliminated, and an initial penalty amount is set.
  • First penalty is 1, then 2, then 3, then 4.
  • This number is removed from all hands
• Next player rolls the dice
  • If the horse is already eliminated, player puts the penalty price into the winnings pot.
  • Continues until the 4 horses are eliminated

Ending round is the "Horse Race":

• Players take turns rolling the dice
  • If they roll an eliminated horse, then they put the penalty price into the winnings pot.
  • Else that horse advances towards victory
• Horses have a set number of rolls that determine if they cross the finish line based on their probability

  • { 
      2: 2,
      3: 3,
      4: 4,
      5: 5,
      6: 6,
      7: 7,
      8: 6,
      9: 5,
      10: 4,
      11: 3,
      12: 2,
    }
    

• Once a non-eliminated horse hits enough times, the pot is divided equally amongst players holding those horse cards.

Ideas

Initial Goals

• Build out backend logic to play/simulate the game
• Maybe make it a simple CLI + basic UI game?

Stretches

• Would be amazing to have this be a website game so that people can play together online
• Controlling a rolling action from their device, watching the UI keep track of winnings/progress etc.
• Cool UI/UX for the game (but start super simple)

Environment Setup

1. Ensure pyenv is installed:

   • curl https://pyenv.run | bash

2. Ensure pyenv activated in your bash/shell profile:

   • This is added to your profile:

     eval "$(pyenv init -) 
     eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"
     

3. Give proper permissions to setup-dev.sh and remove-venv.sh

   • ex: chmod 755 remove-venv.sh

4. Run make setup-dev

Environment reset

1. Run make reset-dev