baton96 / cheater

Bot for the card game called "Cheater"

🃏 Cheater Bot Player 🃏

This project was created during the course of "Elements of Computational Intelligence" and its goal was to implement a strategy for a bot player, based on the given example, for the card game called "Cheater". At first this player was tested in the game with, unknown at that moment, lecturer’s players, and then it took part in the tournament within laboratory group in which it got the highest possible score as this player has beaten all players provided by both lecturer and my colleagues.

Rules

The rules in this project were based on the rules in card game called "Cheater". Game is played with one deck of cards from 9 to 14 (ace) – each with 4 color variants (24 cards in total). Cards are dealt randomly to two players – 8 cards for each player. The goal is to get rid of all your cards. Players take their turns alternately. A turn consists of placing on the common pile one card face-down declaring which card you placed (so you may lie). Declared card must have at least the same value as the previously declared card on the top of the common pile. Next the other player may or may not check if you lied. If you get caught lying you have to take 3 cards from the top of the heap, if not – the player who was checking takes 3 cards.

Putting & Checking strategies highlights:

• Counting how many cards are left in opponent hand
• Sorting hand after each draw
• Keeping record of all cards that were put on pile
• Taking into account difference between number of cards within players