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Make a "clue" tracking program. Have a set up where you can input cards seen and each person's guesses and the responses given. For extra cool-ness, it can give real-time percentages for each possibility. For regular coolness, it can show eliminated cards, possible owners of each card, and positively identified cards.

I'll definitely will try this.

I'll try to take a quick hack at this on Saturday. I saw that Wikipedia has a page on Clue... is the explanation there sufficient for the challenge and/or is there a better resource for the Clue rules?

Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo describes the rules and game play.

I imagine the tracking program running in two stages:

Setup:
Define the number of players
Define the cards in hand
Define first player

Gameplay:

For others' turn:
Define whose turn it is
Define suggestion
Define who showed a disproving card

For own turn:
Define card newly seen
Define whom showed the newly seen card

Ongoing status per card:

Confirmed owner, if exists
Possible owners

Possible scenarios missed by simply tracking status of each card:

In turn #1 person B shows person A either card x or y or z.
By turn #5, you have confirmed that person C possesses card y and z.
If the progression of the game is not saved, the program can't go back to re-evaluate turn #1, and conclude that card x was shown.

I'm imagining that the program would run with two sets of data:
One would be a database of confirmed owners
The second would be a record of the progression of the game.

With each turn, I envision the program updating the confirmed owner database, then re-running the progression of the game to draw conclusions from previously inconclusive steps.

In my scenerio, during the first turn the program would flag B as a possible owner of x, y, or z. Once C is a confirmed owner of x, the program would flag B and a possible owner of y and z. Once C is a confirmed owner of y, the program would flag B as the confirmed owner of z.

I want to try this - going to be a challenge.

My quarter ends in two weeks. I'm going to take a shot at a shell script that will accomplish this between quarters. Right now I'm up to my ears in homework/term papers.... and I'm only taking one class! (Part time graduate work while working full time is tough.)

Just had my last final exam. I have one week before fall 2011 starts. I should have time to start this.

Although I started this a while ago, I probably won't have time to finish it for a couple of weeks. Also, I started it in Haskell, which was probably a bad idea because you spend half of your time coercing the type system.

I'm doing it in javascript - just kind of time consuming to get all the html elements and events going.

I'm going to start this. I'm getting through a bunch of mysql tutorials and school work at the moment. After that I will get on this.