Egyptian Rafter Game Simulation

A CLI to simulate games of Egyptian Ratscrew, including potentially game-breaking strategies as listed below. If you want to know which strategies win under which conditions, you can also view the paper this repository was built for here: https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/concern/gw_etds/5425kb44d?locale=en

Setup Instructions

To simulate new strategies in the Egyptian Rafter game, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run bundle install to install the required dependencies.

Running the Simulation

To run the simulation, use the following rake task with your desired options:

rake game:simulate [options]

Options

• --playercount=[num players]: Specify the number of players in the game.
• --probablistic=[true|false]: Enable or disable probabilistic game behavior.
• --specialplayers=[list of players]: Provide a comma-separated list of special players (no spaces). See the list of available special players below.
• --gameiterations=[numgames] (optional): Set the number of game iterations. Default is 100,000.
• --winpercentage=[0-100] (optional): Set the win percentage threshold. Default is 75, only relevant if probablistic=true.
• --burnamount=[numcardstoburn] (optional): Specify the number of cards to burn. Default is 1.

List of Available Special Players

1. Strategies::QUALITATIVE::ALL_FACES: Slap on every card played after any face card is played.
2. Strategies::QUALITATIVE::JACK_THROUGH_KING: Slap on every card played after J-K is played.
3. Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::TWOCARD: Slap on every card after 2 cards have been played.
4. Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::THREECARD: Slap on every card after 3 cards have been played.
5. Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::FOURCARD
6. Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::FIVECARD
7. Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::SIXCARD

Note: The difference in --playercount and number of special players listed will be filled in with reflexive players.

Example Command

rake game:simulate -- --playercount=4 --probablistic=true --specialplayers=Strategies::QUALITATIVE::ALL_FACES,Strategies::QUANTITATIVE::THREECARD --gameiterations=100 --winpercentage=90 --burnamount=2