Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe

Re:Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown... by frei on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:17PM (#38481702)

Unfortunately the bot is not very good. Just by reading the rules I was able to beat it every time on multiple rulesets.

The matchmaking is also difficult to find a partner since the rules are so customizable, and there's no way to tell what rules potential partners could be searching with. Maybe a list of games that are looking for an opponent would be good.

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Re:Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown... by chrisfosterelli on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:28PM (#38481789)

I just read the first paragraph and then decided I wanted to play and I still beat the bot first try. At least that means the game rules are fairly discoverable :)

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Re:Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown... by esrauch on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:04PM (#38482100)

I didn't understand the rules until most of the way through the game and I still won against the bot. I'm not clear if its really doing anything better than playing randomly based on that.

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Re:Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown... by Kharacternyk on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:19AM (#38484806)

It's a weighted random choice, so a bit better than randomly because of the weights, but not much better.

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Re:Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown... by russellbeattie on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:13PM (#38482180)

Yeah, the bot is good for learning, but after a few games it becomes easy to just go after it directly, kill the Os which connect the walls and win easily.

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