The code for Skunk is found at http://www.dlugosz.com/Skunk1.zip.

I already found out something interesting, just from the brute-simple sample player that always rolls only once. 4 instances of the player will result in a wide spread of money changing hands, even though the number of individual game wins/losses is about 25% as you would expect.

Playing 10000 games.
                                     Sam (2536/7608) 1640
                                    Judy (2528/7584) 931
                                   Lloyd (2514/7542) 1134
                                   Scott (2422/7266) -3705

[C:\work\dev\PerlSkunk]test2
test1 running
loading sample1.skunk.pl  Single Roller - Always rolls once.
Playing 100000 games.
                                     Sam (25123/75369) 6037
                                    Judy (24995/74985) -1504
                                   Lloyd (24959/74877) -1948
                                   Scott (24923/74769) -2585

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The magnitude of the money spread grows with the total length of play, while the win/loss ratio should converge ever more accuratly to 25% as the length of plays increases.

This indicates that the money win/loss follows a fractal curve, with ever larger trends emerging the longer you play.

Ah, it's like a random walk! Which means I would expect the money to be +/- the square root of the number of games, further complicated by the fact that all the wins/losses must add up to zero.

So, I have documentation and a pretty good framework. I'd appreciate it if anyone reviewed the code to make sure there are no problems. And, anyone who wants to add a player robot is welcome to send it to me at 0binsnh002 "at" sneakemail.com (I'll change that once it gets on the spamlists).

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