Go Fish/Unicon
< Go Fish
This is a two player version of Go Fish with a 9 card deal out where the human player always goes first. It is assumed that everyone will know what cards are booked out and what cards are fished. The computer acts as arbitrator so there is no way to lie, cheat, or steal.
Also, this program uses a simplified deck (no suits but four of each card) similar to some children's specialty decks.
The computer strategy relies on the following facts and public knowledge which are kept for each player in the player's public field. Public is a table by rank. A value of -1 indicates unknown state, any other value is the known number of cards.
- a. Public counts can be adjusted when a player makes a book.
- b. If the opponent asks for a card an unknown can be changed to a 1 as they have at least one card of this rank.
- c. When one or more cards are surrendered during fishing , the public counts of both players can be adjusted accordingly.
- d. A card drawn requires that counts of 0 be set to unknown unless the cards were booked out.
Strategy:
- (i) Request any known cases of 3 of a kind first.
- (ii) Request from other known cards second. The request should be in proportion to what you do not hold in your hand. That is if you have 1 J, you should have 3 chances of requesting it.
- (iii) Guess. This should also be in inverse proportion to what you hold in your hand.
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Sample Game:
Go fish. You vs. the computer - your turn first: Your hand : 34688AAJK Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? Yes, there was 2 K('s) Your hand : 34688AAJKKK Your turn : j You: Does the computer have any J's? Yes, there was 1 J('s) Your hand : 34688AAJJKKK Your turn : a You: Does the computer have any A's? No, Computer has no A's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 3's? Yes, there was 1 3('s) Computer: Do you have any 5's? No, Human has no 5's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 4688AAJJKKKQ Your turn : 4 You: Does the computer have any 4's? Yes, there was 2 4('s) Your hand : 444688AAJJKKKQ Your turn : 6 You: Does the computer have any 6's? Yes, there was 2 6('s) Your hand : 44466688AAJJKKKQ Your turn : 8 You: Does the computer have any 8's? No, Computer has no 8's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 3's? No, Human has no 3's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 44466688AAJJKKKQQ Your turn : q You: Does the computer have any Q's? No, Computer has no Q's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 3's? No, Human has no 3's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 444666888AAJJKKKQQ Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? No, Computer has no K's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 3's? No, Human has no 3's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 444666888AAJJKKKQQT Your turn : t You: Does the computer have any T's? Yes, there was 1 T('s) Your hand : 444666888AAJJKKKQQTT Your turn : j You: Does the computer have any J's? No, Computer has no J's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 2's? No, Human has no 2's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 444666888AAAJJKKKQQTT Your turn : a You: Does the computer have any A's? No, Computer has no A's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any J's? Yes, there was 2 J('s) Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 3444666888AAAKKKQQTT Your turn : 4 You: Does the computer have any 4's? Yes, there was 1 4('s) Human made a book of 4's Your hand : 3666888AAAKKKQQTT Your turn : 6 You: Does the computer have any 6's? No, Computer has no 6's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 5's? No, Human has no 5's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 23666888AAAKKKQQTT Your turn : 8 You: Does the computer have any 8's? No, Computer has no 8's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 2's? Yes, there was 1 2('s) Computer: Do you have any 3's? Yes, there was 1 3('s) Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 666888AAAJKKKQQTT Your turn : t You: Does the computer have any T's? No, Computer has no T's - Human draws a card Human made a book of 6's Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 888AAAJKKKQQTT Your turn : q You: Does the computer have any Q's? No, Computer has no Q's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 8's? Yes, there was 3 8('s) Computer made a book of 8's Computer: Do you have any J's? Yes, there was 1 J('s) Computer made a book of J's Computer: Do you have any 9's? No, Human has no 9's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 5AAAKKKQQTT Your turn : a You: Does the computer have any A's? No, Computer has no A's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 7's? Yes, there was 1 7('s) Computer: Do you have any 9's? No, Human has no 9's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 5AAAKKKQQTT Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? No, Computer has no K's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any T's? Yes, there was 2 T('s) Computer: Do you have any 9's? Yes, there was 1 9('s) Computer: Do you have any 2's? No, Human has no 2's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 5AAAKKKQQ Your turn : 5 You: Does the computer have any 5's? Yes, there was 2 5('s) Your hand : 555AAAKKKQQ Your turn : q You: Does the computer have any Q's? Yes, there was 1 Q('s) Your hand : 555AAAKKKQQQ Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? No, Computer has no K's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any 2's? No, Human has no 2's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 555AAAKKKQQQT Your turn : t You: Does the computer have any T's? Yes, there was 3 T('s) Human made a book of T's Your hand : 555AAAKKKQQQ Your turn : 5 You: Does the computer have any 5's? No, Computer has no 5's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any Q's? Yes, there was 3 Q('s) Computer made a book of Q's Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 2555AAAKKK Your turn : 2 You: Does the computer have any 2's? Yes, there was 3 2('s) Human made a book of 2's Your hand : 555AAAKKK Your turn : 5 You: Does the computer have any 5's? No, Computer has no 5's - Human draws a card Computer: Do you have any A's? Yes, there was 3 A('s) Computer made a book of A's Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Your hand : 3555KKK Your turn : 3 You: Does the computer have any 3's? Yes, there was 3 3('s) Human made a book of 3's Your hand : 555KKK Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? No, Computer has no K's - Human draws a card Human made a book of 5's Computer: Do you have any 7's? No, Human has no 7's - Computer draws a card Computer made a book of 9's Your hand : KKK Your turn : k You: Does the computer have any K's? No, Computer has no K's - Human draws a card Human made a book of K's Computer: Do you have any 7's? Yes, there was 1 7('s) Computer made a book of 7's Final score: Computer=6, Human=7 - Human wins.