Post by Sentinel65 in Good rule change for first move of game

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It's a matter of habit. I played about 1,000 games with the original rule, and the score was approximately 50:50. After the change, I initially felt that there was a greater element of chance in the game due to the generated board and limited first move, but I've gotten used to it now. In any case, before the rule change, I had a fairly high percentage of games with AI where we both picked almost the entire board, but now the game ends sooner. Where it has helped a lot is in solo mode, where I felt that with a 3x3 board I could solve almost every board, but now with the new rule, the difficulty is higher, especially in 4x4 mode.

The win ratio is still somewhere around 50:50.

Riffle Shuffle & Roll84 days ago

I am seeing some personal preferences when it comes to how the game begins. Another fun idea a number of people have shared is to replace the starting cards with numbers and allow the players to pick where they begin the game. I included this in the PDF as a rule variation. I don't replace the numbers though. Instead, the rules state that the jacks begin the game collapsed.

gpoquiz84 days ago

As in you personally played against your bot, or you had your bot play against itself? If just you playing against your bot, I would encourage you to set up bot v bot play and see if there is bias in your algorithm! Also is your minimax algorithm full depth? Theoretically you should be able to determine who has a guaranteed win at the start of every game.

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