At 8:40 PM +0200 4/15/08, Zoltán Németh wrote:
tedd írta:
Hi gang:
Check out my new game:
http://webbytedd.com/quarters/
What do you think?
that's cool, the only problem is that I lost ten times out of ten ;)
maybe on the weekend I give it a deeper analysis
and so I can figure out the winning strategy -
because there must be one, which is used by the
program
greets,
Zoltán Németh
Zoltán:
There's a log story about that game. But briefly,
I was introduced to it by an old man in Bradford
Penn. I remember it cost me at least a case of
beer before I won a single game -- a very
deceptive game, at least it was to me.
But, the program follows a rule based AI
algorithm with a bit of randomness thrown in.
I've condensed winning down to three rules -- it
will be interesting to see if you can figure out
what those rules are. Of course, you could pay $5
and I'll email them to you. :-)
Seriously, I released the game for the Mac in
December 1999. In February, MacWorld ran it as
one of the top ten shareware games and my web
site had over 25,000 downloads that month and the
30+ shareware site out that had the game,
reported a total of over 200,000 downloads.
The original game asked for a self-addressed
stamped envelope with $5 in it and I would mail
the answer back. To my surprise, I received
hundreds of letters and money from all over the
world. Some of the currency would have cost me
more than $5 to cash at my local bank. That was
before PayPal did overseas transactions.
Some of the letters had photographs of the people
who wanted the secret. I specifically remember a
big biker from OZ who sent me a picture of
himself and his bike with a note that he was
going to make more than $5 by betting on the game
in bars. I'm sure he did.
It was a very interesting experience and I've
always wanted to put the game up on my site to
see what would happen. It's not for the money,
but rather the life experience.
Cheers,
tedd
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