For whatever reason I've decided to develop an online version of the game called Sets which I was introduced to last night.

The game goes something like this: cards are layed down in a 4x4 grid face up. Each card has four attributes: number of items on it (1,2,3), shape, color, and shading type. The goal is to find sets. A set consists of three cards which foreach of the four attributes have either:

  • a) all of a given attribute in common,
    (or)
  • b) unique/different values for a given attribute for all three cards

    An example set:
    Blue
    3 Circles
    Solid fill
    		 Green
    3 Triangles
    Empty Fill
    		 Red
    3 Squares
    Hash Fill

    Explanation: this is a set because all of the colors are different, all of the shapes are different, all of the shading/fill types are different, and all of the numbers are the same.

    Eventually I'd probably like to come up with a TK version and add lots of stats to keep track of what types of sets a given player tends to find first out of all the possible sets they could find at a given point of the game. This would possibly shed some light on the quickest/easiest type(s) of pattern matching for a given player.

    I'm looking for different ways of maintaining the game state. Storable/DB_Files seem like the obvious solution but I am also curious as to what some other alternatives might be.

    vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@blockstackers.com

    In reply to Ways to maintain state in a CGI based card game by vroom

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