Haskell Dominoes

About

This is a small project implementing dominos using the functional programming language, haskell.

Setup

1. Download and install GHCI (https://www.haskell.org/platform/)

2. Clone this repository.

3. Start GHCI in the root directory of this project (using command prompt), loading in the DomsMatch.hs file.

   • $ ghci DomsMatch.hs

   OR

   • $ ghci then Prelude> :l DomsMatch.hs

4. Call the 'domsMatch' function with two players (listed below), the number of games to play and the random seed (e.g. domsMatch hsdPlayer randomPlayer 100 42)

5. The result will show how many games each player won respectively (e.g. '(97, 3)' means that P1 won 97 games, P2 won 3 games.

The list of available players is:

• randomPlayer - plays any playable domino from hand
• hsdPlayer - plays the highest scoring playable domino from hand
• winPlayer - tries to play (5,4) if in hand, then plays like hsdPlayer until score is >=53, then tries to play domino to score 61, otherwise plays hsd
• getClosePlayer - same as winPlayer apart from including a tactic where if it is not possible to score 61 then try to get score 59, else play hsd
• blockPlayer - same as winPlayer apart from including a tactic where if the opposing player knocked on its last move, if possible, play a domino that will keep the ends of the board the same, blocking the opposing player
• superPlayer - implements all the tactics from blockPlayer, getClosePlayer and winPlayer
• blockOPWinPlayer - same tactics as winPlayer apart from including a tactic where if the opponent's score is 53 or above, if possible only play dominos that will block the other player from winning