I integrated this work into an Angular implementation: https://github.com/georgiee/skipbo-angular
Start with npm run develop and you see the following output:
Run npm run test to see all tests passing. Look into the test files
to get a feeling what's happening in my implementation.
The game is run by an automator for demonstrating and developing purposes. Many edge cases missing but it usually completes within a sane amount of rounds using the following strategy:
- Fill your hand when the turn stated once
- Fill your hand if your hand if you run out of cards during your turn but before discarding a card (which completed the turn)
Repeat:
-
Try to place the stock card in the building pile
-
Try to place a hand card in the building pile
-
Try to place a discarded card in the building pile.
-
Repeat if any of the three worked if not complete the turn.
-
Complete the turn by discarding your left-most (first in list) hand card
-
Building Piles are naively build — search the first fitting and place the card
-
Discard Piles are evenly build — stack on top of the smallest pile.
That's it.
Technically I'm using different implementation for building and discarding piles. A doubly linked list makes it easier to handle the lists.
https://github.com/rsms/js-lru https://github.com/7imon7ays/concentration-js/blob/master/js/dev/concentration.js
shuffle deck
A Player Turn
- Refill hands with 5 cards
- try stock pile -> building pile
- try discard pile -> building pile
- immediately refill if no hand cards left
- complete turn by discarding a card (no refill if cards are zero)
- win if stock pile empty
-> next player, next turn
// 144 1-12 cards + 18 Joker/Wild (Skip-bo) = 162 cards // empty stock pile to win. // draw pile in center // 4 building piles in the center // 4 discard piles per player
// 2 -4 players: 30 cards per player -> stock pile // 5 or more: 20 cards per player dealt -> stock pile // face down
// 1. shuffle deck
// 12 cards per face