#!perl ## HiLowDeal use strict; ## This program has a "dealer" and a "player" ## The dealer generates two random numbers and sticks them ## into two envelopes. One of these is handed to the player. ## The player looks at her number, then picks another ## number at random and assumes that she has picked the ## dealer's number. She then either states that she has ## the high or the low envelope. 50/50? Perhaps not... ## Usage: HiLowDeal 10 10000 50 ## The above example plays ten thousand games, ## uses the numbers 1 through 10 to draw the random numbers from, ## and outputs a running total about 50 times my $games = shift || 10000; ## How many games shall we play? my $limit = shift || 10; ## What range of numbers? my $checkpoint = shift || 3; ## Approximate # of checkpoint displays $checkpoint = int $games/$checkpoint; ## The total set is really an infinite set, but we ## will restrain our players to this without letting ## them "know" the range, making it effectively infinite. ## In other words, if a "10" is received, they do not know ## that there is no "11", "12", etc... and cannot automatically ## deduce that they have the higher card. my @money=(1..$limit); print "Games=$games, from 1 to $limit, checkpoint is $checkpoint.\n"; my ($letter1, $letter2); my ($guess, $result, $actual); my $total=0; my $counter=0; for (1..$games) { ## Select two random cards, must be different $letter1 = $money[rand @money]; { $letter2 = $money[rand @money]; redo if $letter1 == $letter2; } ## Player one has both, letters, then one to player #2. ## Player two looks at his, then makes a guess as to the other one. ## Cannot guess their own number { $guess = $money[rand @money]; redo if $guess == $letter2; } ## The player's best guess: (1 means they have the higher card) $result = $letter2 > $guess ? 1 : 0; ## The actual value: $actual = $letter2 > $letter1 ? 1 : 0; ## Are they correct? If so, give them a point. If not, take one away: $total += ($result==$actual) ? +1 : -1; if (++$counter == $checkpoint) { $counter=0; print "TOTAL: $total\n"; } } print "Grand total: $total\n";