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McTam

Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:28 pm


Help with...Lifelines in who wants to be..game

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I can not figure out how to write the lifelines for my who wants to be a millionaire game....i have come a long way with the help of people from our beloved comp sci and it would be a shame if i couldn't figure this out so i can finish my program....
Can anyone help me with this part of my game? 
fifty fifty-cancel two out of four answers for the question
ask the audience-since there is no audience....same as fifty fifty...
call a friend-give the answer for the question

Thanks guys.....I owe you HUGE!


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Tony

Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:33 pm



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well you have your list of possible choices. Now to do 50-50, you just create a new list of choices - 2 elements only. First add the correct answer. Then randomly pick another answer. Let the user chose from those two.

As for ask the audience - it is essensially the same, though I suggest also randomly generating some statistics. With a correct answer having a higher chance ofcourse :wink:


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McTam

Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:37 pm


who wants to be a millionaire lifelines

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That sounds great! and the response time....astonishing....but.... :oops: ...
I can not write that in code is that a bother to ask for you to express yourself in computer language? :oops: Would love you for it! :D Thanks


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Tony

Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:14 pm



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I'm not sure how your questions are set up... lets assume the following

var choice:array 1..4 of string
choice

so we have an array full of answers and we know that 2nd one is correct.. aka choice(answerIndex)

now lets say we want to let the user pick just 2 of the above (after using 50-50)


var wrongChoices:array 1..3 of int %all the wrong answers
var myChoices:array 1..2 of int %1 correct 1 wrong

var counter:int := 1 %just follow along

for i:1..4
     if i not= answerIndex then
          wrongChoices(counter) := i
          counter += 1
     end if
end for

%now wrongChoices has all of the indexes but answerIndex
%so

myChoice(1) := answerIndex
myChoices(2) := wrongChoices(Rand.Int(1,3))

%myChoice(1) is the correct answer's index
%myChoice(2) is a random incorrect answer's index


and now you're ready! let the user pick between answer # myChoice(1) or myChoice(2).. you might want to keep track of the other two answers that will be crossed out, though those can be figured out since they are not in the list.


loop
     put "pick an answer"
     get myAnswer
     if myAnswer = myChoice(1) or myAnswer = myChoice(2) then
          %check if myAnswer = answerIndex, if so - user wins
           exit
     else
           put "what are you, stupid? you can't pick that"
     end if
end loop 


hope that helps


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McTam

Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:36 am


Thanks

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Thanks alot you have helped me a great deal...
All the best to you...until next time :D