GameOfPureStrategy

Battlin' strategies to win the most games of the Game of Pure Strategy (GOPS)

Check out the current bot leaderboard here!

What is this?

I found GOPS interesting, due to the facts that

1. it is the only extant pure strategy card game (no luck of the draw), and
2. it is currently unsolved >4 cards by modern mathematics

I thought it would be fun to try my hand at designing strategies to play this game, and pitting them against each other to see which won out. So I wrote a bunch of python classes to simulate games of GOPS, and an object-oriented structure that make it easy for anyone to write classes to play.

If you dig this half as much as I do, perhaps you want to make a bot and see how it performs. If so, here's what you need to know:

How do I use this?

• play_GOPS.py is the module that kicks off test games.
  • Bots are passed by the class to GameArena, so you can easily modify:
    • which bots participate,
    • how many games to play
    • how to print to console. (useful for figuring out how bots play and tweaking strategy)

Think you can do better?

I do my official tests with 2 bots, 100,000 runs, and 13 cards.

1. Create your bot(s), and place them in a new python file in the bots directory.
   • Check out required bot format in bots/A_sampleBot.py
2. Send me a pull request with your bot. I'll add your bot to the leaderboard :)