mini-cactpot

This program looks to do analysis on a board for a minigame in FFXIV:ARR called the mini-cactpot.

You are given a 3x3 matrix of numbers, filled with the numbers 1-9 in random positions, with no number repeated.
One of the numbers is given to you at the start, and 3 more can be chosen to be revealed. (For simplicity's sake, this program assumes it will be given a matrix with 4 numbers revealed.)

The player is then tasked to choose any row, column, or diagonal. The resulting 3 numbers are added, and a payout is given based on the sum. Higher doesn't equate to better payout -- payouts look like this:

sum  payout
---  ------
6    10000
7    36
8    720
9    360
10   80
11   252
12   108
13   72
14   54
15   72
16   54
17   180
18   119
19   36
20   306
21   1080
22   144
23   1800
24   3600

This program tries to find the best (with variable definitions of best) row to choose given a board with 4 revealed.

Different output types:

best risky row: highest possible payout -- gives the row with the highest average payout over all possibilities. This will give a good idea of where the highest payout is, but ignores probablity of obtaining that payout.
safest row: highest chance of > 200 payout -- gives the row with the most number of possibilites that have over 200 in payout. This is the consistent option.

TODOs:

finish the thing
implement safest row output
I'd very much like to try this using core.logic instead.
it should give more information to help the player make a decision, like a list of rows, their average payout, and probabilities involved.

Installation

(not currently functional, but:)
git clone and lein jar

Usage

the program represents the matrix as a vector of vectors, with the indexes corresponding to this chart:

  x represents a number in the grid
  lines represent the direction of the row the number represents
  1  2  3  4  5
   \ |  |  | /
 7 --x  x  x (vector at index 0)
 8 --x  x  x (vector at index 1)
 9 --x  x  x (vector at index 2)
ind. 0  1  2  of list

args should be a vector of maps containing 4 different positions and their values.
ex: java -jar mini-cactpot-0.1.0-standalone.jar "[{:val 2 :row 0 :col 0} {:val 1 :row 1 :col 1} {:val 7 :row 1 :col 2} {:val 3 :row 2 :col 2}]"

$ java -jar mini-cactpot-0.1.0-standalone.jar [args]

Options

.... None. Don't pass it options.

Examples

todo

Bugs

todo

License

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

sarlianna / mini-cactpot