Talk:24 game

Purpose

What's the theoretical or practical interest in this task? I'd be interested in a program that enumerated all the 4-tuples that have solutions or determined whether a given 4-tuple had a solution, but we've already got tasks for getting input from the user, parsing arithmetic expressions, and so on. —Underscore 19:22, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Umm,

1. Playing the game.
2. We have a gazillion sorts for example, (some are very impractical); so we can stand some repetition.
3. We don't have many games, (of any description). Some site grazers might be attracted just by the word 'game'.
4. The input checking is novel.
5. The task is more than the some of its parts! (We have tasks covering most statement types, and it would not make sense to use that as a reason for not doing any composite task).
6. Prelude to possibly another task to solve the game.

(I don't like to write a task until I have a solution and so can better gauge its suitability, and so write a better task description). --Paddy3118 20:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Without any official guidelines as to what's an appropriate Rosetta task and what isn't, I suppose it's all completely subjective, so I can't very well argue with you. Adding more games isn't such a bad idea; RCRPG is interesting from an implementation point of view but sorely lacking in the fun department. I wonder how hard it is to write a minimal Pong clone. —Underscore 22:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Very easy, with modern hardware and programming languages.

FWIW, this task does strike me as being a somewhat useful one. I used to have a similar time waster game when I was a teen where you got 4 numbers and a goal, the end. (Except for the variable goal, identical to this task.) -- Eriksiers 02:23, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

A game player was not too difficult so I created it as a separate (but linked), task. --Paddy3118 04:52, 1 November 2009 (UTC)