bartmassey / digitgame

digit game in Haskell

digitgame: Shut The Box code

Copyright (c) 2006 Bart Massey

Here are two Haskell programs for playing a dice-and-digits game. The game has had many names over time: it is currently best known as Shut The Box.

The interesting program, written cooperatively with Jamey Sharp, is a solver for perfect play in the solitaire variant of the game; it computes the move with best chance of reaching a given score threshold. This latter program has a textual "tutor" interface that allows the player to pick a move and then shows what the expected payoffs were for the various choices.

The other program is a really simple GUI program written in Gtk2Hs for playing the game solitaire. I wrote this one all by myself. Sadly, it won't currently build, and I'm not sure what it would take to fix it.

This game was introduced to me by Andreas Junghanns, who also built a solver for it. His agrees with mine, so I hope we're both correct.

This work is available under the "MIT License". Please see the file COPYING in this distribution for license terms.