Nim-Game Haskell
This is a simple nim game written in Haskell. It uses simple IO () and represents the nim-board as a list of the type [5,4,3,2,1] where each number is the number of stars in that row.
1: * * * * *
2: * * * *
3: * * *
4: * *
5: *
Rules
Two players take it turn about to remove one or more stars from the end of a single row. The winner is the player who removes the last star or stars from the board.
Example
*Main> nim
1: * * * * *
2: * * * *
3: * * *
4: * *
5: *
Player 1
Enter a row number: 1
Stars to remove: 5
1:
2: * * * *
3: * * *
4: * *
5: *
Player 2
Enter a row number: 4
Stars to remove: 2
1:
2: * * * *
3: * * *
4:
5: *
Player 1
Enter a row number: 2
Stars to remove: 4
1:
2:
3: * * *
4:
5: *
Player 2
Enter a row number: 3
Stars to remove: 3
1:
2:
3:
4:
5: *
Player 1
Enter a row number: 5
Stars to remove: 1
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
Player 1 wins!